Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 14, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education for 312 full-time, temporary school clerical personnel. In so doing, this bill partially implements the recommendations of a 1990 school and district office clerical staffing study.

Your Committee finds that there has been a significant increase in the amount of administrative, technical, professional, and paraprofessional work that must be done by school personnel as schools continue to work toward school-based budgeting and greater accountability.

According to a study completed in 1990, there was a shortage of nearly 430 full-time clerical staffers at schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education. That number has probably increased over the last decade. Your Committee supports the intent of this measure to provide each school with adequate personnel to meet administrative mandates while still providing our students with a quality education.

Your Committee has amended this measure to change the appropriation amount to $2.

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. 14, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 14, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.