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.R. No. 22 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the demolition and reconstruction of Frear Hall and Johnson Hall to accommodate increasing undergraduate student demand for on-campus housing, and to support an appropriation of funds to refurbish other existing housing complexes.

Your Committee received comments from the University of Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii, Office of Capital Improvements has initiated a market and feasibility study to determine the student housing needs for the future, and requests your Committee to defer action until the study is completed.

Your Committee finds that the immediate concern for the safety, health, and well-being of students currently living on campus outweighs the possible benefits of a delay, and therefore supports moving this measure forward.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 22 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.