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Acting public lands secretary urges larger, multi-year fund for land-use plan update
Summary
Acting Secretary Sixtu Kaipari Somer of the Department of Public Lands told the committee he supports Senate Bill 24-1212 but recommended increasing the proposed $200,000 set-aside to $275,000 and allowing the department to hold and augment those funds over multiple years to complete a land use plan update.
Sixtu Kaipari Somer, acting secretary of the Department of Public Lands, told the Senate spending committee he supports Senate Bill 24-1212 but urged changes to how the bill funds an update to the commonwealth land use plan.
Somer said the department continues to support comments previously submitted by former Secretary Teresita Santos and recommended an increase…
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