STAND. COM. REP. NO. 611

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 163

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 163 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the district business and fiscal officer positions within the Department of Education.

 

     Copies of written comments submitted to the Committee are available for review on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that beginning in 2007, the Legislature has provided for one complex area business manager position for each of the Department's fifteen complex areas.  The business managers provide fiscal services and support to each complex area, including the schools and the complex area superintendent.  The complex area business managers, administrative services assistants, and personnel in the school facilities and support services branch of the Department provide all the services in the statute that this measure repeals.  As a result, the business and fiscal officer positions established in section 302A-604.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are no longer necessary and their repeal would not affect the Department's operations.

 

     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. 163 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair