STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1030-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2708

S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2708, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to study and recommend alternative financing methods for school construction by extending and funding the work of the school impact fee working group established in Act 246, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, for one additional year to July 30, 2007.

The Office of the Auditor, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, and Castle and Cooke Hawaii testified in support of this bill. The Department of Education supported the intent of this measure.

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. 2708, S.D. 2, 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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ROY TAKUMI, Chair