STAND. COM. REP. 2261

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2172

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2172 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FULL-TIME STUDENT ACTIVITIES COORDINATORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for full-time student activities coordinators in all public high schools.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the student member of the Board of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Hawaii State Student Council, and Hawaii Secondary Student Conference. Comments were received from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that student activity coordinators are only paid for ten out of the twelve months that they work. They essentially volunteer countless hours during the summer months to plan numerous activities for their respective schools, activities that boost school spirit and provide vital alternatives to drugs, violence, and other criminal activities to today's youth. Although it is gratifying to know that there are teachers in our public educational system that have so much aloha that they dedicate their free time to help support and provide for the youth, that does not justify the State's failure to compensate them for their services.

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. 2172 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair