STAND. COM. REP. NO. 476

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 281

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 281 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL IN KIHEI,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education for completing the second phase of planning, design, and construction for a new high school in Kihei, Maui.

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

     Your Committee finds that significant population growth on the island of Maui, particularly in the Kihei-Makena region, along with geographical separation of the southern area of Maui from existing central Maui high schools, has created a need for a new high school in south Maui.  Your Committee further finds that the Legislature appropriated $130,000,000 for the completion of this high school, but fiscal concerns and changes in administration resulted in only the first phase of the project being completed.  This measure will appropriate funds to finish the second phase of the project and construct the physical buildings of the new high school.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 281 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair