Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2452 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to reauthorize the appropriation of $3,750,000 to build a gymnasium for Pahoa High and Intermediate School that will lapse on June 30, 2006.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one member of the House of Representatives.

Your Committee finds that there is a pressing need for a gymnasium to be built for Pahoa High and Intermediate School because the current facility, due to age, use, and termite damage, is inadequate for the school's athletic programs. Your Committee finds that the community of Puna continues to work diligently on developing public-private partnerships to acquire land for the gymnasium and proceed with building the gymnasium once funding is released.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2452 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.