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Senate committees direct DOT and HHFDC to form working group on state logistics near ports
Summary
The Senate committees on Transportation and Housing voted to pass SCR 110 and SR 103, asking the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to convene a working group to study state-owned or state-controlled warehouse and logistics facilities near harbors and airports to lower material costs for publicly financed housing projects.
The Senate committees on Transportation and Housing voted March 24 to pass SCR 110 and SR 103, directing the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to convene a working group to evaluate the feasibility of state-owned or state-controlled warehouse and logistics facilities near harbors and airports to reduce material costs associated with publicly financed housing projects.
The chair opened the joint hearing and described the measure’s purpose: "It’s requesting the Department of Transportation in coordination with the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to convene a working group to evaluate the feasibility of establishing state owned or state controlled warehouse and logistics facilities near ports, harbors and airports to reduce material costs associated with public financed housing projects," the chair said during opening remarks.
Robin Shishigo of the Hawaii Department of Transportation told the committees HDOT stands by its written testimony and supports the intent of the resolutions with comments. After brief procedural discussion the committees adopted the chair’s recommendation to pass both measures with amendments that add the chairperson of the House standing committee on transportation (or a designee) and the chairperson of the Senate standing committee on transportation (or a designee) as working-group members.
The record shows the committees voted to adopt the recommendations; the clerk read the recommendation and recorded ayes and noted several senators excused from the vote. The committee plans to use the working group to assess whether consolidating logistics and warehousing near ports could lower material costs for state- or county-funded housing projects and report back with feasibility findings.
The committees moved on to the Housing committee agenda after adopting the joint recommendations. The working group’s membership, timeline, and deliverables were not specified in the hearing record and would be determined when the departments convene the group.
