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HI HR224

Resolution

Official Source

Status

Introduced

3/16/2011

Primary Sponsor

Scott Nishimoto

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Origin

House of Representatives

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requests that the University of Hawaii refrain from removing trees with historic value and design new buildings to accommodate their preservation
  • Addresses the removal of a nearly 100-year-old comose fig tree on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus to make way for a Campus Center expansion
  • Notes that the comose fig tree was part of the heritage collection planted by Joseph Rock, the Territory's first botanist and the university's first botany professor
  • Observes that original construction plans accommodated the tree but were later revised to require its removal for recreational facilities rather than educational or research purposes
  • Directs that certified copies be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Regents and President of the University of Hawaii

Legislative Description

Trees

Last Action

(H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred.

3/31/2011

Committee Referrals

Higher Education3/21/2011

Full Bill Text

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