STAND. COM. REP. 1118

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 337

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 337, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Appropriate funds to the Department of Education (DOE) to establish fifteen complex area administrative services manager positions;

(2) Specify the duties of the complex area administrative services managers;

(3) Appropriate funds to DOE to convert 42 full-time business assistant positions from temporary to permanent status; and

(4) Appropriate funds for a consultant to study the public school repair and maintenance backlog.

DOE submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Accounting and General Services submitted comments on this bill. The Hawaii Government Employees Association supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that principals are frequently expected to assume the role of a business manager at their schools. Your Committee also notes that converting the forty-two full-time temporary business assistant positions to permanent status will not require an additional appropriation, as these positions are accounted for in DOE's current services budget.

Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting:

(1) The establishment of the complex area administrative services manager positions and the appropriation for the positions;

(3) The appropriation to convert the business assistant positions to permanent status; and

(4) The appropriation for a consultant to study the school repair and maintenance backlog.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 337, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 337, S.D. 1,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

 

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ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair