Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 3006 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to establish within the department of accounting and general services the school support division and the general support division and to transfer and consolidate related functions by January 1, 2003, and to transfer the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the operations and maintenance section and the CIP planning and finance section of the DOE facilities and support services branch to the DAGS, effective July 1, 2003.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) and the Hawaii State Teachers Association. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to the measure from the Department of Education (DOE).

Your Committees find that the coordination of facilities management between DAGS and DOE has improved, but that there may be consolidations or transfers that would contribute to even greater efficiency and cost savings.

With this in mind, your Committees have amended this measure to:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3006, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3006, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.