STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2025

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3095

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 3095 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:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide an emergency appropriation for the Department of Education to secure critically needed maintenance base yard facilities.

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 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 included a provision allowing the Department of Education to use facilities at Shafter Flats to house its maintenance base yard.

Your Committee further finds, however, that the economic downturn in 2020 and limited amount of available resources resulted in a request 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 of 2021. Your Committee additionally finds that since June of 2021, the Department of Education has actively sought new facilities to house its maintenance base yard.

Accordingly, your Committee finds that the emergency appropriation made by this measure is necessary and vital for the Department of Education to secure new facilities for warehouse and storage use so that the Department of Education may continue to service all of its facilities, including two hundred and fifty-seven public schools, thirty-seven charter schools, and nearly one hundred eighty thousand students statewide.

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. 3095 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