STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2367

Honolulu, Hawaii

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RE: S.B. No. 2535

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2535 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PEARLRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to further amend an allocation made in 2003 to allow for expansion and renovation of the Pearl Ridge Elementary School cafeteria.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Pearl Ridge Elementary School, Pearl Ridge Elementary School Community Council, Pearl Ridge Elementary Parent Teacher Group, and four individuals.

Your Committee finds that the Pearl Ridge Elementary School cafeteria can accommodate only one-third of its student body and the school can hold no school-wide functions or activities.

Your Committee further found that this measure is not making an appropriation, but rather amending current law so that the school may be able to use moneys appropriated in a way that best suits its needs. This cafeteria construction project is but one of a high number of school repair and maintenance projects that require attention and a constant effort from many dedicated parties to see it completed.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2535, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2535, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Military Affairs,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair