STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2570

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2434

       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. 2434, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to adjust the salary caps of the Superintendent of Education, the Deputy Superintendent, the Assistant Superintendents, the Complex Area Superintendents, and the State Librarian.

     Your Committee received written comments on the measure from the Board of Education.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the current law sets specific figures as salary caps for the Superintendent of Education and the State Librarian, and sets the salary caps of the Deputy Superintendent, the Assistant Superintendents, and the Complex Area Superintendents as percentages of the salary cap of the Superintendent of Education.

     Your Committee finds that by adjusting the salary caps of all these officials based ultimately upon the salary of the highest paid school-, district-, or state-level administrator in the Department of Education, this measure will provide the Board of Education with the flexibility to attract and retain competent individuals to build and maintain a strong statewide public education and public library system.

     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. 2434, 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