STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 228-22
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2022
RE: H.B. No. 2127
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2022
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2127 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR A MAINTENANCE BASE YARD,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.
Your Committee finds that on July 1, 2005, the Department of Education and the Department of Accounting and General Services entered into a memorandum of understanding to supplement the transfer of resources from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Department of Education pursuant to Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. This memorandum of understanding included a provision for the Department of Education to use facilities at Shafter Flats to house its maintenance base yard.
Your Committee further finds that because of the economic downturn in 2020 and the limited amount of available resources, a request was made by the Department of Accounting and General Services on June 4, 2021, to have the Department of Education relocate from the Shafter Flats facility by October 2021. The Department of Education has since been looking for a new facility to house its maintenance base yard, which is vital for needed warehouse and storage space to allow the Department of Education to continue to service all of its facilities. This measure will provide sufficient funding to the Department of Education to build a new maintenance base yard.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the general obligation bond amount to an unspecified amount;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Should the Committee on Finance choose to deliberate on this measure, your Committee on Education respectfully requests authorizing the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds in the amount of $15,000,000 and appropriating the same amount for fiscal year 2021-2022.
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 H.B. No. 2127, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2127, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair |