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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
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RESOLUTION NO. 299 14
A RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII STATE LEGISLATURE TO PASS SENATE
BILL NO. 2584 AND HOUSE BILL NO. 2150, WHICH APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE
PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS FOR
A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO RESEARCH
PLANETARY SUSTAINABILITY TECHNOLOGIES.
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 2584 and House Bill No. 2150 appropriate $250,000 for the
Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) for planetary sustainability
technology demonstrations and university-based competitions in a partnership with the State of
California; and
WHEREAS, PISCES promotes economic development for Hawai`i Island and the State
of Hawai`i; and
WHEREAS, PISCES is researching and field testing the use of basalt rock as a
construction material, as an alternative to concrete that must be imported from the mainland; and
WHEREAS, PISCES is researching the production of clean, renewable energy through
the use of high efficiency solar concentrator technology, which could also provide power during
natural disasters; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will enter into a partnership with California to research planetary
sustainability through technology demonstrations and university competitions that will include at
least one Hawaii university team and one California university team; and
WHEREAS, the technology that will be selected in California and tested in Hawai`i will
have multiple uses to benefit sustainable living on Earth, the Moon and Mars; and
WHEREAS, money appropriated in Senate Bill No. 2584 and House Bill No. 2150 will
be made available only upon approval of matching funds from the California State Legislature;
and
WHEREAS, the Hawaii County Council supports PISCES and economic development
in Hawaii and sustainable living; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that the
Hawai`i State Legislature is urged to pass Senate Bill No. 2584 and House Bill No. 2150, which
appropriate $250,000 to PISCES for a partnership with the State of California to research
planetary sustainability technologies.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Honorable Governor Neil Abercrombie; the Honorable Senate President Donna
Mercado Kim; the Honorable House Speaker Joseph Souki; the Honorable Senator Will Espero;
the Honorable Senator David Y. Ige; the Honorable Representative Clift Tsuji; and the
Honorable Representative Sylvia Luke.
Dated at Kona , Hawai`i, this 19th day of February , 2014.
TRODUCED BY: 41 ,,
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
COUNTY COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE
County of Hawai`i AYES NOES ABS EX
Hilo, Hawai`i EOFF X
FORD X
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by ILAGAN X
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted b the COUNCIL of the
County of Hawaii on February 19, 2014 KANUHA X
KERN X
ONISHI X
ATTEST: POINDEXTER X
pC tli WILLE X
YOSHIMOTO X
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— Reference: C-664/Waived GREDC
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON & PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. 299 14
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