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.C.R. No. 172 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the Department of Education to develop two capital improvement project priority lists to correct any unfair distribution of funds to newer schools.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Education (DOE).

Your Committee finds that the DOE must somehow make better accommodation to address the needs of older school facilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by eliminating the request for two CIP lists from the title and the body of the resolution, and instead urging the DOE to take into account the age of school facilities when making decisions about project priority.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 172, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 172, S.D. 1.