STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1697

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 179
                                        S.D. 2




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
S.C.R. No. 179, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING MORE PUBLIC EDUCATION
     ON THE MERITS OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE AND ON EFFECTIVE METHODS
     FOR RECRUITING AND RETAINING VOLUNTEERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this Concurrent Resolution is to urge more
public education on the merits of volunteer service and on
effective methods for recruiting and retaining volunteers.

     Your Committee finds that volunteers have been the backbone
of many service organizations over the years and during the
State's current economic crisis, volunteers are even more
valuable because there is less money to pay for programs.
Volunteers themselves often claim that they too, benefit from
their charitable work, learning about how government programs
work, which agencies serve which groups, and becoming more
familiar with the problems of the recipients of these services.
Retirees, school children, and others who still work often
contribute millions of person hours to food banks, teaching
children how to read, mentoring teenagers, coaching sports teams,
and so on.  If these volunteers disappeared, society would suffer
unimaginable dislocations.  In order to maintain a high level of
volunteerism, your Committee believes there is a need to educate
volunteers and agencies that use volunteers on which recruitment

 
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techniques and administrative rewards should be encouraged and
other matters which affect the rise and fall of volunteerism.
This Concurrent Resolution is designed to accomplish this goal by
gathering a bibliography of publications and training materials
to be used by those interested in this topic.

     Your Committee has amended this Concurrent Resolution to
request that the Office of State Volunteer Services be the lead
agency to gather a list of publications on volunteerism and
submit its report to the Legislature.  This office is directly
involved with volunteer services and, as the State's lead agency
in this area, has primary and responsibility for recruiting and
placing volunteers.  Therefore, your Committee finds that the
Office of State Volunteer Services should direct this report on
recommended readings on volunteer management.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 179,
S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the
form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 179, S.D. 2.

                                 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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