STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3208

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3355

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3355, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to establish a standing committee to examine issues regarding the community colleges and to require the Vice President of Community Colleges to report directly to the standing committee.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawaii and University of Hawaii Professional Assembly.

Your Committee finds that a standing committee will provide the community colleges with a voice at the administrative level and a process for the University of Hawaii to more directly address issues with the community colleges.

Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating out of the general funds appropriated to program ID University of Hawaii, Community Colleges (UOH 800), the following sums:

(1) $303,000 for the Culinary Institute of the Pacific, including seven full-time equivalent (7.0 FTE) positions;

(2) $2,650,000 for the Early College Program, including twenty full-time equivalent (20.0 FTE) positions;

(3) $1,400,000 for the Hawaii Promise Program;

(4) $385,000 for the Hawaii Nutrition Employment and Training Program, including five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions;

(5) $146,000 for the Maui Food Innovation Center, including three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions;

(6) $1,540,000 for workforce development programs, including eight full-time equivalent (8.0 FTE) positions;

(7) $1,274,100 for campus security officers, including thirty-one full-time equivalent (31.0 FTE) positions;

(8) $1,622,676 for the Wahiawa Value-Added Product Development Center, including nine full-time equivalent (9.0 FTE) positions;

(9) $4,600,000 to restore personal services to levels before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic began;

(10) $842,572 for clinical instructors for the nursing program; and

(11) $645,134 for the Learn and Earn Program, including four and three tenths full-time equivalent (4.3 FTE) positions.

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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3355, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3355, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair