Report Title:

WCCC

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Women's Community Correctional Center (WCCC) in Kailua needs funding to establish a full-time temporary exempt ground maintenance worker to provide supervision over WCCC's nursery and building maintenance program; and

WHEREAS,the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle is working to create an Environmental Science program for the inmates at WCCC. The program will include a turf grass training area, the growing of native plants and ornamentals to be used in hotels, golf courses and along roadways, and building and maintaining fountains and pools and the construction of irrigation systems; and

WHEREAS, WCCC'S Building and Maintenance course will renovate WCCC'S 16,000 square foot shade house, re-roof the existing classroom and office, and paint and clean both of them WCCC'S Building and Maintenance course will renovate WCCC'S 16,000 square foot shade house, re-roof the existing classroom and office, and paint and clean both rooms, and

WHEREAS, WCCC currently has one community service work line supervisor and one building supervisor. Both of these workers are involved in facility maintenance and community service projects. WCCC needs an additional full-time position to supervise inmate students and workers in the nursery as part of an on-the-job training program; and

WHEREAS, Inmates from this program will be transitioned to community service projects and eventually furloughed to regular employment in the community; and

WHEREAS, this is an important project for the inmates and the community, returning the women to society with better life, employment and people skills, as well as job training to become self-supporting citizens; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2001, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Public Safety is requested to appropriate funds for a full-time temporary exempt position for the Women's Community Correctional Center in Kailua to supervise inmates and workers in WCCC'S nursery and building maintenance program; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Department of Public Safety and the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle.