STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3502

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 86

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 86 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REDISTRICT STUDENTS WHO WILL BE LIVING IN THE KOA RIDGE DEVELOPMENT TO THE PEARL CITY-WAIPAHU COMPLEX AREA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Board of Education to redistrict the students expected to be living in the yet-to-be-completed Koa Ridge development to the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the current boundaries of the Department of Education districts will require students who will be living in the Koa Ridge development to attend Mililani Middle School. However, Mililani Middle School is not expected to have the resources to meet this additional student capacity. Your Committee further finds that redistricting Koa Ridge development students to the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, instead of the Leilehua-Mililani-Waialua complex area, will direct those students to a middle school with sufficient capacity to accept additional students.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 86 and recommends its adoption.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair