STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3105

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 141

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Housing and Labor, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 141 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A STUDY OF SYSTEMS OR PLANS THAT MAY ACCOMMODATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S NEED TO RETAIN, PROMOTE, AND COMPETITIVELY COMPENSATE PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES IN CERTAIN AREAS WITHOUT REQUIRING THOSE EMPLOYEES TO ASSUME SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request that the Legislative Reference Bureau assess the classification and compensation plans of public, local, and national K-12 and higher education organizations and institutions and recommend systems or plans that may accommodate the Department of Education's need to retain, promote, and competitively compensation professional employees in areas that require special skills without requiring those employees to assume supervisory responsibilities.

 

     More specifically, this concurrent resolution requests that the Legislative Reference Bureau submit a report that includes but is not limited to the following:

 

     (1)  Various types of classification and compensation plans in K-12 and higher education organizations and institutions that may allow for competitive salaries for high-skilled professional or managerial positions that may not necessarily require supervisory responsibilities;

 

     (2)  The collective bargaining issues surrounding the possible establishment of a classification and compensation system in the Department of Education similar to the executive/managerial system at the University of Hawaii;

 

     (3)  Consideration of expanding Educational Officer studies previously conducted by the Department of Human Resources Development to develop clear and concise classes that allow for positions to be classified without requiring assumption of supervisory responsibilities; and

 

     (4)  The advantages and disadvantages of a system, similar to the University of Hawaii executive/management system, that allows for negotiations of initial salaries within established ranges with proper approval, and salary adjustments based on performance evaluations rather than across-the-board adjustments.

 

Your Committees received testimony in support of the intent of the measure from a state agency.  A state agency and a private organization provided comments.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

Your Committees find that it is important for the Department of Education to find a way to retain, promote, and competitively compensate its educational officers.  Your Committees further find that pursuant to Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, the Department of Education was directed to adopt separate classification/compensation plans:  one for principals and vice principals and one for all other education officers.

 

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the title of this Concurrent Resolution to read:

 

          "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A STUDY OF SYSTEMS OR PLANS THAT MAY ACCOMMODATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S NEED TO RETAIN, PROMOTE, AND COMPETITIVELY COMPENSATION PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES IN CERTAIN AREAS, WITHOUT REQUIRING THOSE EMPLOYEES TO ASSUME SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES, AND A STUDY OF THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S ADOPTION OF A SYSTEM SIMILAR TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S EXECUTIVE/MANAGEMENT SYSTEM";

 

     (2)  Clarifying that the Legislative Reference Bureau review the various types of classification and compensation plans of selected public education organizations;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the employees to be covered in the Legislative Reference Bureau's report are educational officers, other than principals and vice principals, that are in highly-skilled professional or managerial positions that may not necessarily require supervisory responsibilities;

 

     (4)  Requesting the Legislative Reference Bureau to review the Watson Wyatt report, entitled "Review of the Current Classification and Compensation Systems of Educational Officers and Professional Employees and Recommendations";

 

     (5)  Requesting the University of Hawaii to conduct a separate study that reports on the University's executive/management system that allows for negotiations of initial salaries within established ranges, allowances for salaries outside of established ranges with proper approval, and salary adjustments based on performance evaluations rather than across-the-board adjustments;

 

     (6)  Requesting that the University of Hawaii's report address the advantages and disadvantages of the executive/management system and the collective bargaining issues that were involved in the establishment of the system;

 

     (7)  Deleting the provision that requested consideration of expanding educational officer studies previously conducted by the Department of Human Resources Development; and

 

     (8)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Housing and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 141, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 141, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Housing and Labor,

 

____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair