STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1206

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 130

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 130 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION CONVENING A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP MORE COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION AND DECISION-MAKING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AS IT RELATES TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to convene a working group to develop more collaborative information and decision-making policies and procedures for community engagement as it relates to community development districts.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Kakaako United, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Life of the Land, Kakaako Makai Community Planning Advisory Council, and ten individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the community residents are important stakeholders who have an interest in development in their community development districts.  The Legislature has received complaints that the Hawaii Community Development Authority has repeatedly disregarded and failed to act on community concerns expressed at the Hawaii Community Development Authority community meetings, public hearings, and board meetings.  Thus, it is in the best interest of the State and community development districts to implement clear, fair, open, and collaborative procedures.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting language related to the concerns raised by community residents and other stakeholders due to the Hawaii Community Development Authority not following its own long-range plans for the mauka and makai areas in Kakaako; and

 

     (2)  Specifying that the working group may include up to four Hawaii Community Development Authority members.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 130, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 130, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair