Report Title:

Hawaiian Island Veterans Memorial Incorporated

 

Description:

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates money as grant-in-aid to Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. to build a combined veterans center in Hawaii county

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2246

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for the hawaii island veterans memorial inc.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. was formed on April 18, 1997, as a nonprofit corporation specifically to plan, construct, and operate a combined veterans center and a fifty unit veterans home in Hawaii county. The combined veterans center will provide counseling, readjustment, and medical treatment through the community-based outpatient clinic, laboratory assistance, post-traumatic stress disorder consultation, recreational activities, and housing for homeless veterans. The goal is to provide a permanent, safe, and centralized location for these activities.

The project is to be built in three phases, with phase I consisting of building a fourteen thousand four hundred square foot combined veterans center that includes a seven thousand square foot counseling, readjustment, and community-based outpatient clinic, a meeting hall, offices for the Hawaii county office of veterans services, and a manager's office. Phase II consists of building an eight hundred sixty-four square foot maintenance building/garage with additional parking and a recreational area, gateball courts, volleyball courts, tennis and basketball courts, and a picnic area. Phase III consists of the fifty unit veterans home. Funding is requested for phases I and II only.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. to construct phases I and II of its project by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds.

SECTION 2. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $3,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2002-2003 for a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. for plans, land acquisition, design and engineering, construction, and equipment for phase I and phase II of the combined veterans center project, as described in section 1.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of defense for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. The appropriations made for capital improvement projects authorized in this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all appropriations which are unencumbered as of June 30, 2005, shall lapse as of that date.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

INTRODUCED BY:

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