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. 1381 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of $1,000,000 to fund the operation of the Kapolei Public Library for the current fiscal year.

The State Librarian, Board of Education, The Estate of James Campbell, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

This measure will enable the public library system to further stock its collection with books, videos, digital versatile discs (DVDs), and electronic resources. While twenty per cent of the new collection for the library has been acquired, completing a collection for a library the size of Kapolei Library requires additional funds. The emergency appropriation will also enable the purchase of supplies, staff equipment and furniture, and payment of utility and maintenance costs, thereby facilitating the opening of the library to the general public in December, 2003.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding a proviso to Act 159, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, that requires the use of the emergency funding for the Kapolei Public Library.

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. 1381, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1381, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.