Authorizes the issuance of $2,000,000 in general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation for planning and design for Pulelehua Elementary School, a new elementary school in west Maui.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. There is no elementary school in the growing Honokowai-Napali arrea. The two existing Lahaina complex elementary schools will soon be over their capacity. As of July 2004, Kamehameha III elementary, with a capacity limit of seven hundred four students, had a current enrollment of six hundred seventy-nine students. Princess Nahi'ena'ena elementary school, with a capacity limit of six hundred eighty-one students, has a current enrollment of six hundred fifty-five students. Clearly, a new elementary school is needed now to accommodate additional children from Pulelehua, as well as children from adjacent areas.

The Pulelehua community in west Maui is estimated to generate from one hundred seventy to two hundred five elementary aged children. Additionally, there are over two hundred elementary school children in adjacent areas, from Mahinahina and north.

The department of education has informed Maui Land and Pineapple Company that it is planning to build a new elementary school in west Maui in 2011, and is agreeable to building the new school in Pulelehua. However, that timetable needs to be accelerated. The new school at Pulelehua will be within walking distance of the three proposed Pulelehua neighborhoods as well as the adjacent neighborhoods of Kahana Ridge and Mahinahina. It will be the only elementary school north of Lahaina town. It will also relieve traffic congestion and reduce travel time for area students who currently must be transported to school in Lahaina town. Maui Land and Pineapple Company is willing to enter into a design-build agreement with the department of education to facilitate an expedited construction of the new school.

The purpose of this Act is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for planning and design costs for the new Pulelehua Elementary School.

SECTION 2. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 for the purpose of planning and design for Pulelehua Elementary School.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2008, shall lapse as of that date.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.