STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2662

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2317
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2317, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow boards of water supply
in counties with a population of more than 500,000 to enter into
a five-year pilot program to restructure and reorganize.

     In establishing the pilot program, this bill allows the
boards of water supply to exercise the powers, functions, and
duties relating to governing the classification and
reclassification of positions found in the civil service and
compensation laws; create flexible job descriptions in order to
meet the requirements of technology and efficiency, including
reducing the number of job classifications and combining jobs
requiring more than one skill; and provide bonus monetary
payments to be shared by a team of employees for reducing costs
under certain efficiencies or benchmarks.

     Your Committee finds that it is imperative that clean and
potable water be provided to state residents without
interruption, efficiently and effectively.  Your Committee finds,
however, that the cost of providing water has increased over the
years, and that the pilot program established by this bill will
assist in making the boards of water supply more efficient, as

 
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well as serve as a laboratory to test proposed changes to the
statewide civil service system.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by:

     (1)  Changing the bill's effective date to facilitate
          further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the
          purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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.
2317, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2317,
S.D. 2.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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