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RESOLUTION NO. 301 1.4
A RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII STATE LEGISLATURE TO PASS SENATE
BILL NO. 2585 AND HOUSE BILL NO. 2152,WHICH APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE
PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS AND
AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL AUTHORIZATION BONDS FOR A
HEADQUARTERS FACILITY.
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 2585 and House Bill No. 2152 appropriate $1,375,738 for
the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) and authorize the
issuance of$1,500,000 in general obligation bonds for the acquisition of land for a PISCES
headquarters facility; and
WHEREAS, PISCES promotes economic development for Hawai`i Island and the State
of Hawai`i; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will lead the development of methods to fabricate basaltic-based
construction materials through three-dimensional printing as an alternative to cement; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will develop the technology to survive in deep space by extracting
potable water from the surface of other worlds and converting it into oxygen and rocket fuel,
using Hawai`i basalt as a test material; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will provide infrastructure improvements for an existing planetary
analog test site that will support international teams in their effort to test technology for human
robotics missions on the moon and Mars; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will work with three Hawai`i high schools and NASA to develop a
lunar dust removal experiment that will be flown on a Google Lunar X-Prize mission in 2015 to
the moon; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will host an international robotics mining competition in summer
2014; and
WHEREAS, PISCES will acquire land to develop a testing and checkout facility to
accommodate space hardware assembly, software loading, and other analyses before testing
them at field sites across Hawai`i; and
WHEREAS, the funds appropriated and authorized by Senate Bill No. 2585 and House
Bill No. 2152 will support economic and workforce development and STEM education while
establishing PISCES as a world-class center for space exploration; 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. 2585 and House Bill No. 2152, which
appropriate funds for PISCES and authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for a
headquarters facility.
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.
INTS EDUCED BY:
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 by the COUNCIL of the KANUHA
County of Hawaii on February 19, 2014 -- X
KERN X
ONISHI X
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ATTEST: POINDEXTER X
WILLS X
YOSHIMOTO X
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COUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON & PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. 301 14
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