Bill Text: HI HCR32 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Refuse Collection Service; City and County of Honolulu

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-10 - Referred to FIN, referral sheet 13 [HCR32 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HCR32-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	32
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

URGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE REFUSE COLLECTION SERVICES IN FULL WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CHARGES OR FEES.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, over one hundred sixty thousand households currently receive refuse collection services throughout Oahu at no additional charges or fees; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2014, the City and County of Honolulu decided that, due to the cost of maintaining front-loading refuse collection trucks, it would end refuse collection services at one hundred eighty-one locations, including more than one hundred condominium association locations and seventy private schools, churches, and other nonprofit organizations; and

 

WHEREAS, the collection of refuse is a matter of public health and welfare; and

 

     WHEREAS, the decision to end refuse collection service leaves thousands of resident taxpayers without a basic governmental service; and

 

     WHEREAS, many of the affected resident taxpayers are either senior citizens on fixed incomes who do not live in single-family homes due to physical issues and high maintenance costs or young families with marginal incomes unable to qualify for single-family homes; and

 

     WHEREAS, United Public Workers filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit against the City and County of Honolulu regarding this matter; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Circuit Court issued a restraining order temporarily prohibiting the City and County of Honolulu from discontinuing its refuse collection services to the locations in question; and

 

     WHEREAS, the resident taxpayers should not endure litigation regarding this matter of public health and welfare; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the Senate concurring, that the City and County of Honolulu is urged to continue to provide refuse collection services in full to the locations in question, without any additional charges or fees; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu and the Director of Environmental Services, City and County of Honolulu.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Refuse Collection Service; City and County of Honolulu