Report Title:

Molokai Extension Programs; GO Bonds

Description:

Authorizes issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for the construction of a new office building for the cooperative extension service programs on Molokai.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2475

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A NEW OFFICE BUILDING FOR EXTENSION PROGRAMS ON MOLOKAI.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the cooperative extension programs on Molokai, provided through the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the University of Hawaii, has been a major contributor to the development of Hawaii's economy and communities. The college has worked with children, entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, homeowners, and others, empowering them to make more informed choices about their professional and personal lives.

The legislature further finds that the Molokai extension program was forced to vacate a department of Hawaiian home lands building after the building burned down in 1979. Their current temporary location is shared with the Maui community college agriculture program within a converted metal barn that is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, contains no drinking water, and is known to have been infested with vermin. Furthermore, the farm building provides less than one-half of the space needed by the extension program.

The legislature further finds that the extension programs is the only state agency on Molokai without permanent office space. Building a new facility and placing it in the public view within the community, and not on a backroad, helps to ensure that a greater number of Native Hawaiian residents will benefit from the programs. The programs serve farmers, the department of Hawaiian home lands, and the people of Molokai in general. The new facility will allow the Molokai extension program to focus on economic and community development benefiting the people of Molokai.

The purpose of this Act is to construct a new office building for the cooperative extension services programs on Molokai that is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

SECTION 2. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $1,092,000, 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 2004-2005 for the purpose of constructing a new office building for the cooperative extension services program on Molokai:

Design $70,000

Construction $959,000

Equipment $63,000

Total $ 1,092,000

SECTION 3. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2006, shall lapse as of that date.

SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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