STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3219

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 108

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.R. No. 108 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO WORK WITH A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE TO DEVELOP A PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR THE PLANNING AND DESIGNING OF A GYMNASIUM AT ANUENUE SCHOOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request that the Department of Education, a school of architecture, and Kula Kaiapuni ‘O Ānuenue enter a partnership to develop a proof of concept plan and design for a gymnasium at Ānuenue school.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that Ānuenue school is a Hawaiian immersion school for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.  Students at Ānuenue school are very active in a variety of athletic events and sports, but the school lacks a gymnasium.  The physical constraints of the Ānuenue school site limit the available space to expand and make design and construction of gymnasium facilities at the school a challenge.  Your Committee further finds that a partnership with a school of architecture will allow feasible plans and designs for such a facility to be developed and simultaneously provide valuable learning opportunities for architectural students.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding a Hawaiian language translation of its contents, including its title.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 108, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 108, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair