STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2583

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2942

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2942, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to reorganize the administration and function of certain state agencies to maximize efficiencies by:

 

(1)  Transferring the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to the Hawaii Community Development Authority;

 

(2)  Transferring the harbors modernization group to the Department of Transportation;

 

(3)  Placing the commercial harbors modernization plan under the harbors modernization group; and

 

(4)  Appropriating an unspecified sum for consultant services to implement the commercial harbors modernization plan.

 

     The Department of Transportation, the State Procurement Office, the Hawaii Harbors Users Group, and the Hawaii Community Development Authority submitted written comments on this measure.  Written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State needs to reexamine and adjust the structure of state government to ensure that all state functions are performed as efficiently as possible in the current unfavorable financial and economic crisis.  Your Committee finds that this measure can achieve efficiencies by transferring the functions of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to the Hawaii Community Development Authority without unnecessarily delaying any of the needed improvements to the State's harbors.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Deleting the provision that would have exempted all procurements relating to the harbors modernization project from the state procurement code; and

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to upon approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2942, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2942, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair