Bill Text: HI HB214 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: General Obligation Bonds; Kauai Capital Improvement Projects

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB214 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB214-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 924

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 214

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 214, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR WAILUA EMERGENCY BYPASS ROAD REPAIR AND RESURFACING, AND WAIMEA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES FOR THE COUNTY OF KAUA‘I,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and make an appropriation for Wailua emergency bypass road repair and resurfacing, as well as Waimea wastewater treatment plant upgrades for the County of Kaua‘i.

 

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the County of Kaua‘i and The Laborers' Union.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure would enable:

 

     (1)  The provision of continuous and reliable service to public and private users in the Waimea service area;

 

     (2)  The lifting of present capacity restrictions, by allowing new connections, including connections for the development of affordable housing and business expansion;

 

     (3)  The upgrading of effluent water quality to meet standards for irrigation reuse;

 

     (4)  The improvement of water quality on the coastal plain between Waimea and Kekaha; and

 

     (5)  The provision of solar electric capacity in order to offset the energy requirements associated with the Waimea wastewater treatment plant expansion.

 

     Your Committee notes from the testimony that $6,950,000 is requested by the Department of Public Works of the County of Kaua‘i for the following projects.  This figure includes:

 

(1)  $6,000,000 for improvements to the Waimea wastewater treatment plant; and

 

     (2)  $950,000 for the emergency bypass road.

 

     Your Committee leaves consideration of the amount of the appropriation to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting the expending agency as the Department of Public Works, County of Kauai, and inserting a lapse date.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 214, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 214, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair