STAND. COM. REP. 2752

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2058

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2058, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the completion of repair and maintenance projects at public schools by continuing to fund Hawaii 3R's.

The measure also amends the Hawaii 3R's law by deleting a reference to the Hawaii 3R's being a project of Helping Hands Hawaii, as the Hawaii 3R's program is now established as its own nonprofit organization.

Your Committee finds that there continues to be a backlog of repair and maintenance projects in Hawaii's public schools and that every means of addressing these projects should be explored and supported. Towards this end, the State has successfully partnered with Hawaii 3R's, a nonprofit organization, to complete, in a timely and cost effective manner, public school repair and maintenance projects that ordinarily would be done with state funds and resources. Your Committee finds that appropriating public funds to Hawaii 3R's serves the public purpose of expediting the completion of the backlog of repair and maintenance projects in Hawaii's public schools.

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. 2058, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair