STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. 6

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 160

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 160 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE'S FORESTRY PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate the sum of $100,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004 for the College of Agriculture's forestry program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii Forest Industry Association, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau.

Your Committee finds that in 1997, the Legislature mandated that the College of Agriculture at the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus include forestry and natural resource management in its name and course offerings. The program has generated nearly $1,000,000 in research and teaching grants and another $1,2,000,000 in in-kind contributions for a variety of initiatives, but finds that the program is in jeopardy without additional fiscal support.

 

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 160 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

		____________________________ EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair