Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1385 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Board of Education before July 1, 2002, to adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflect the level of work being performed.

Testimony in support of this measure was received by the Board of Education and the State Auditor. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees find that the current Department of Education's classification and compensation plan for educational officers raises questions of fairness. Your Committees note that the Auditor found that the classification system is outdated and the department lacks a formal job evaluation methodology to ensure that employees' duties and responsibilities are accurately reflected. This finding was in the Auditor's report, Comparison Study of the Salary Structure of Educational Officers in the Department of Education. Thus, your Committees believe that this measure is necessary to correct outdated classification and compensation structures.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1385 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.