STAND. COM. REP. NO.2408

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2702

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2702 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KALAELOA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to consolidate the Barber's Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission ("Commission") into the Hawaii Community Development Authority ("Authority").

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, the Authority, the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the University of Hawaii, the Chair of the Commission, the Chair of the Committee on the Preservation of Historic Sites and Cultural Properties, the President of the Kapolei Hawaiian Civic Club, and two concerned citizens. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by a concerned citizen.

Your Committees find that since the closure of Barber's Point Naval Air Station, surplus lands within the former base are being conveyed to various State and City agencies under the base realignment and closure process.

Your Committees further find that transferring the oversight authority from the Commission to the Authority will not only streamline operations, it will also provide an ongoing funding mechanism for the Authority's redevelopment operations at Kalaeloa. Therefore, your Committees fully support this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure to include four inadvertently omitted parcels of land within the redevelopment district, and to include a Hawaiian cultural specialist on the panel of members appointed to assist the Authority with this project.

In addition, your Committees have amended this measure to:

(1) Allow the Authority to accommodate a one-time general fund infusion from a legislative appropriation;

(2) Reflect the difference between lands received under the Base Closure Act and the lands received under the Hawaiian Home Lands Recovery Act; and

(3) Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this measure for clarity and accuracy.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2702, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2702, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Economic Development and Technology,

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ROD TAM, Chair

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair