STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2892

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 59

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 59 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING A COST-BENEFIT STUDY TO DETERMINE WHETHER LEASING INCOME CAN BE MAXIMIZED FROM AIRPORT AND HARBOR SPACE THROUGH THE USE OF RETAIL LEASING AGENTS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a cost-benefit study, with the assistance of the Department of Transportation, to determine whether leasing income can be maximized from its airport and harbor space through the use of retail leasing agents.

 

     Your Committees received comments regarding this measure from the Department of Transportation and the Legislative Reference Bureau.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     House Concurrent Resolution No. 76, S.D. 1, 2009, established a Task Force on Reinventing Government to examine the current operations and organization of state government and make recommendations on making state government more efficient.  The Task Force organized a Department of Transportation/Transportation Subcommittee to examine issues germane to transportation in the State.  The Subcommittee recommended that the Department of Transportation maximize leasing income from airport space and harbor space with the possible help of retail leasing agents.  The Subcommittee found that "there may be further opportunities to improve rental revenues from retail spaces at airports and harbors."

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying that the scope of the study is not to include the broader issue of privatization of government operations, and by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 59, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 59, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair