Bill Text: HI SCR84 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Choice Neighborhoods Grant
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SCR84 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR84-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3404
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.C.R. No. 84
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 84 entitled:
"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY TO APPLY FOR A CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS GRANT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to apply for a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Choice Neighborhoods Grant.
Prior to the hearing, your Committee posted a proposed S.D. 1 of this measure for public review and comment. The proposed S.D. 1 amended this measure to support the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's application for a Choice Neighborhoods Grant and to urge the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to select the Authority as a Choice Neighborhoods Grant recipient.
Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and one individual.
Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is currently in the process of applying for a Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant. In 2011, the Authority was among seventy-one applicants that met the threshold criteria for a Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant. Unfortunately, due to federal fiscal constraints, the Authority was not among the thirteen planning grants awarded and therefore did not have the funding to undertake the necessary steps to develop the required transformation plan that supports the application for an implementation grant.
Your Committee further finds that the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development anticipates awarding as many as twenty planning grants under the fiscal year 2012 Notice of Funds Availability. Therefore, the Authority is focusing its efforts on obtaining a planning grant to develop a transformation plan that will be submitted for a full implementation grant. Accordingly, the proposed S.D. 1 supports the Authority's application for a Choice Neighborhoods Grant and urges the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to select the Hawaii Public Housing Authority as a Choice Neighborhoods Grant recipient.
Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 84, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 84, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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