Bill Text: HI SB2990 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Aloha Stadium; UH; DAGS; Stadium Special Fund; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to WLO, HED, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2990 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2990-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2366
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2990
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2990 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALOHA STADIUM,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Require the University of Hawaii to contract with an independent third party to conduct a feasibility study to determine the effect of placing Aloha Stadium under the jurisdiction of the University of Hawaii rather than the Department of Accounting and General Services;
(2) Require the University to report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013 on the findings and recommendations of the feasibility study; and
(3) Appropriate $50,000 from the stadium special fund for fiscal year 2012-2013 for the University of Hawaii to contract with an independent third party to conduct the feasibility study.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the University of Hawaii System and the Windward Ahupua‘a Alliance.
Your Committees find that, while the University of Hawaii contributes to the revenues of the Aloha Stadium, given the diversity and broad scope of stadium users it would be more productive if the feasibility study included the development of a long-range plan for Aloha Stadium. The feasibility and cost benefits of placing Aloha Stadium under the jurisdiction of the University of Hawaii would then be considered within a broader context.
Your Committees have also reviewed the recommendation that the Department of Accounting and General Services would be the appropriate agency to oversee the feasibility study, as the Department has been responsible for the stadium's construction, operations, maintenance, promotion, and management from the stadium's inception.
Your Committees have amended this measure accordingly, by:
(1) Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to contract with an independent third party to develop a long-range plan for Aloha Stadium, including a feasibility study to determine the cost benefits of placing Aloha Stadium under the jurisdiction of the University of Hawaii rather than the Department of Accounting and General Services;
(2) Requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013 on the long-range plan for Aloha Stadium, including the findings and recommendations of the feasibility study; and
(3) Appropriating $50,000 from the stadium special fund for fiscal year 2012-2013 for the Department of Accounting and General Services to contract with an independent third party for the long-range plan and feasibility study.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2990, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2990, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Education,
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____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair |
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____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair |
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