STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3419

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NO. 701

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred Governor's Message No. 701, submitting for study and consideration the nomination of:

 

Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority

 

G.M. No. 701

GILBERT DE MOTTA,

for a term to expire 6-30-2015,

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     Your Committee has reviewed the personal history, resume, and statement submitted by the nominee and finds Gilbert De Motta to possess the requisite qualifications to be nominated to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the nomination of Gilbert De Motta from the Department of Human Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 Hawaii, and two individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this nomination from one individual.

 

     Mr. De Motta is a certified tour bus driver and journeyman welder, working in those fields on the Island of Hawaii for over forty-five years.  He also has an extensive history of involvement and leadership with housing development on the Island of Hawaii.  Mr. De Motta was president of the Board of the Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation for fifteen years, served as the president for the Board of Jack Hall Housing Projects, and currently is serving his forty-eighth year as a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 for the Island of Hawaii.  He is an active community member, well regarded throughout the community, and has been recognized for his service through various acknowledgments and awards.

 

     Your Committee finds that Mr. De Motta's experience, compassion, good judgment, and commitment to locating housing for low and moderate income individuals qualify him for appointment to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.  He has volunteered on projects such as the Kulaimanu development at Pepeekeo which produced four hundred homes, developed an organization to assist employees of the Hamakua Sugar Company secure their plantation homes following the closing of the plantation, and become the housing specialist for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142.  By serving on the Board, Mr. De Motta hopes to identify more homes and land for low to moderate income individuals, improve existing low-income housing areas, and complete the Lanakila housing renovation project.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominee, has found the nominee to be qualified for the position to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nomination.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair