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. 3157 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for fiscal year 2006-2007 to plan, design, and construct the expansion of the existing Molokai public library.

Your Committee notes that this project is one of many that constitutes the Department of Education's repair and maintenance backlog. Your Committee finds that public libraries, in addition to public schools, need to be upgraded to meet the public need.

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. 3157 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.