STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1467

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 78

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 78, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES AND CONCERNS RAISED BY THE SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTABILITY RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to pursue solutions to improve the oversight, accountability, and transparency of the administration of the University of Hawaii System.

 

     Specifically, this measure requests the Legislative Auditor to address the issues and concerns raised by the Senate Special Committee on Accountability relating to the University of Hawaii in 2012.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the University of Hawaii System.

 

     Your Committee finds that in 2012, a Senate Special Committee on Accountability was appointed to review the oversight, accountability, and transparency of the operational and financial management of the University of Hawaii System.  Subsequently, the Special Committee issued its findings and recommendations in Senate Special Committee Report No. 2, 2012, including various issues and concerns relating to the fiscal and operational administration of the University; the role and activities of the Board of Regents; and the University's procurement practices.  This measure provides a vehicle for the Special Committee's recommendation that the Legislative Auditor be requested to conduct a financial and management audit of the University of Hawaii System to specifically address the issues and concerns raised in the report.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that the Legislative Auditor is requested to address the issues and concerns raised in Senate Special Committee Report No. 2, 2012.

 

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 78, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 78, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair