STAND. COM. REP. NO.  944

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1200

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1200, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PLANS FOR A SWIM AREA IN POHOIKI,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a feasibility study to determine the best means to provide a Pohoiki swimming area on the island of Hawaii and develop plans for a safe swim area.

 

     The Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Councilmember representing District 4 of the Hawaii County Council, Malama O Puna, Friends of Pohoiki, and two individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1200, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair