STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2409

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2117

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2117, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the school-level minor repair and maintenance account and reporting requirements.

     Presently, there are both the school-level minor repair and maintenance account and the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund.  The former is for the use by each school to contract for minor repairs and maintenance that shall not exceed $25,000 each per school.  The latter is set up to receive funds from check-offs on income tax refunds, as well as other moneys received by the Department of Education for school level minor repairs and maintenance.

Your Committee finds that while the goal of the existing structure is laudable, the accounting and reporting requirements generated by this structure are duplicative, as section 37-47, Hawaii Revised Statutes, sets forth reporting requirements for all non-general funds.  This measure will streamline the reporting process by repealing the school-level minor repair and maintenance account, and requiring the Department of Education to submit a report each year identifying the total amount of funds in the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund that will carry over to the next fiscal year.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2117, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair