Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 58, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to support the Hawaii 3R's program offering a private-public partnership to assist with repair and maintenance projects at our public schools, and to provide an appropriation for a state coordinator position in support of the Hawaii 3R's program.

Your Committee finds that the backlog of repair and maintenance projects in public schools continues to be of concern and that all means of addressing the problem should be explored and supported. To this end, Act 309, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, laid the foundation for Hawaii 3R's, a project of the private, nonprofit organization, Helping Hands Hawaii, by providing a $1,000,000 grant and funding a coordinator position in the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS). This measure provides an additional grant to Helping Hands Hawaii which would be used to continue its school repair and maintenance effort and provide continued funding for the coordinator position to DAGS to assist in coordinating the public and private partnership.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 58, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 58, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.