STAND. COM. REP. NO. 249

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1334

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 1334 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN MUSIC AND DANCE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Museum for Hawaiian Music and Dance.

 

     The measure accomplishes this by directing the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Department of Accounting and General Services to execute a contract with a nonprofit entity to develop, manage, and operate the museum.  The contract would be exempt from the public procurement code.

 

     The measure also appropriates $2,000,000 to finance the design and environmental assessment relating to constructing the museum and authorizes the issuance of $27,000,000 in general obligation bonds to fund the actual construction of the museum.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, INPEACE, Grubb and Ellis, Rubicon Consultants and Marketing, Tropical Music, C.F. Consulting, Island Film Group, the Hawaii Academy of the Recording Arts, and twenty-one individuals.  Testimony in opposition of this measure was submitted by the State Procurement Office.  Comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and the Department of Accounting and General Services.  Written testimony presented to the Committees is available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that the people of Hawaii deserve to have music, dance, and art that is representative of their culture, background, and heritage be preserved for generations of people to observe and appreciate.  Your Committees also find that the Museum for Hawaiian Music and Dance will help Hawaiian children connect to their ethnic roots and perhaps provide inspiration to their own pursuits in music, dance, or art.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the exemption from the state procurement code for the contract between the State Foundation on Culture and Arts and the Department of Accounting and General Services to build the Museum for Hawaiian Music and Dance;

 

     (2)  Deleting the monetary appropriations to be expended by the State Foundation on Culture and Arts;

 

     (3)  Deleting the sum of the general obligation bonds that are authorized to be issued by the Director of Finance; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Tourism that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1334, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1334, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Tourism,

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

 

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair