Bill Text: HI SR33 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Small Boat Harbors Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-09 - (S) Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). [SR33 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SR33-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3096

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 33

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R. No. 33 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A FOLLOW-UP AUDIT OF THE MANAGEMENT OF STATE BOATING FACILITIES BY THE DIVISION OF BOATING AND OCEAN RECREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this resolution is to request that the Auditor conduct a follow-up audit of the management of state boating facilities by the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this resolution from the Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments on the resolution.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that management audits, conducted by the Auditor in 1993, 1998, and 2001 of state boating facilities, found that inadequate management by the Department of Land and Natural Resources was a recurring problem.  The 2001 audit report also found that the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation lacked controls necessary to ensure the accuracy and integrity of its financial affairs.  Your Committee also finds that mismanagement and neglect by the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation has led to the deterioration of state boating facilities.  Your Committee further notes that a financial audit conducted in 2006 found that, although some of the prior recommendations regarding the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation had been implemented, a lack of effective management oversight continued to persist.

 

     Your Committee has amended this resolution by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 33, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 33, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair