STAND. COM. REP. NO. 619

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1750
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No.
1750 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BUSINESS
     SPECIALIST POSITIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to fund three business
specialist positions within the Department of Education for the
districts of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui.

     Specifically, this bill appropriates blank amounts for
fiscal year 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 for these three positions.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the superintendent of education, the principals of three
schools on Kauai, and the interim district superintendents of the
Hawaii district and the Maui district.

     Your Committee finds that the Legislature eliminated these
positions three years ago as the Department of Education
consolidated its Office of Business Services.  However, this
downsizing action has proven unproductive as business and
budgeting operations previously handled by the business
specialists became the responsibility of school principals,
taking away from them valuable time that would be better devoted
to educational and other administrative tasks.

 
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     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 H.B. No.
1750 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KEN ITO, Chair

 
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