Report Title:

CIP; UH Hilo

Description:

Makes appropriation for capital improvement project at University of Hawaii, Hilo, student services building.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1256
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDENT SERVICES BUILDING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF hAWAII AT HILO.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The University of Hawaii at Hilo is in desperate need of a new student services building.  The programs to be housed in a new student services building are critical to the academic and personal success of students, including services in counseling, academic advising, financial aid, admissions, tutoring, career services, disabled student programs, women's programs, registrar, and business office.  These services are currently dispersed throughout the campus.  The current student services building is overcrowded with three or four counselors and advisors sharing offices.  The essential confidentiality of communications for these sensitive services is lacking.

     Bringing together similar services under one building is economical and efficient.  Most other institutions of higher education have all student services under one roof.  The quality of the student services building could indirectly affect accreditation of the facility.

     The purpose of this Act is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and to make an appropriation for a new student services building at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

     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 2007-2008, for the purpose of plans, design, and construction of a new student services building at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

     SECTION 3.  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, 2010, shall lapse as of that date.

     SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii at Hilo for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

INTRODUCED BY:

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