Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assign responsibility to and establish complex area facility managers for each school complex, and convert 42 business assistant positions from temporary to permanent status.

Testimony in support of the intent of this measure was submitted by the Department of Education and the Hawaii Government Employees Association Local 152.

Your Committee finds that many of our school facilities are in need of renovation, repair, and maintenance to meet the needs of growing school populations, support expanded technology infrastructure, and address the aging condition of the buildings themselves. Your Committee further finds that prior to departmental restructuring in the 1990's, school districts had one district business specialist position that supported the fiscal management and facility needs of the schools within their districts. Your Committee believes that a similar position should be assigned to support the schools at the complex level.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 337, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.