Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2058 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funding for Hawaii 3R's, a non-profit organization.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii 3R's, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaiian Electric Company, principal of Makakilo Elementary School, principal of Kaimuki High School, administrative services assistant of the Department of Education Mililani complex, Americas Promise Hawaii, American Society of Civil Engineers, Durus International Corporation, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Pacific Resource Partnership.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii 3R's has proven to have a tremendous impact upon Hawaii's public schools. Through its partnership with private industry, the military, and the community, Hawaii 3R's has saved the State money by completing repair and maintenance projects at our schools that ordinarily would be done exclusively with state funds and resources.

Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the appropriation for the coordinator position in the Department of Accounting and General Services, as the department has committed in testimony to supporting the position from within its regular operating budget, and by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

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. 2058, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2058, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.