STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1554

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 318
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 318, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ADDITIONAL
     SCHOOL CLERICAL POSITIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Education for two hundred ninety-two full-time
equivalent (292.00 FTE), temporary, school clerical positions to
partially implement the recommendations of the 1990 school and
district office clerical staffing study.

     Your Committee finds that this figure represents the number
of clerk positions needed to bring all schools into compliance
with the recommended staffing standards for clerks, based on
projected enrollment figures for 1997.  This figure does not
include the number of clerk typist and account clerk positions
needed to bring all schools into compliance with the recommended
staffing standards for those positions.

     If the Department of Education's clerical shortage is not
alleviated in the near future, then problems relating to employee
morale; the recruitment and retention of clerical personnel; and
the effective and efficient utilization of administrative,
technical, professional, and paraprofessional school-level

 
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personnel, will only worsen with time.  While your Committee
realizes the gravity of the situation, it is unclear whether
sufficient moneys exist at this time to fund even a small portion
of these positions.  Consequently, your Committee has chosen not
to specify the full amount of moneys to be appropriated for the
1999-2000 fiscal year until work on the state budget is
substantially complete and the cost of other fiscal commitments
can be accurately calculated.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
318, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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