Bill Text: HI SCR157 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: DOE; School Infrastructure; Maintenance and Management Plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (H) Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 66 [SCR157 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR157-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2888

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 157

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 157 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO HIRE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS TO WORK IN TEAMS TO INVESTIGATE THE CONDITION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN EACH SCHOOL COMPLEX AND TO DEVELOP A TWENTY-FIVE YEAR LONG-RANGE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR EACH SCHOOL COMPLEX,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Department of Education to hire architects and engineers to work in teams to investigate the condition of school buildings and infrastructure and to develop a twenty-five year long-range maintenance management plan for each school complex.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by three private organizations and one individual.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     A backlog of major repair and maintenance work at public schools remains and repair and maintenance needs for schools will continue to arise.  The Legislature finds that long-range planning by the Department of Education, in consultation with architects and engineers, is critical to anticipating the repair and maintenance needs of Hawaii's school facilities and preparing for the timely performance of work on those facilities.

 

     Given the fiscal constraints on the Department of Education and in light of the Department's ongoing master planning efforts, your Committee has amended this measure by adding more flexibility to the long-range maintenance management plans requested by this measure.  Specifically, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the language requesting the development of a program for regular maintenance and major repairs and a twenty-five year long-range maintenance management plan and budget for each school complex;

 

     (2)  Inserting language requesting the Department of Education to continue developing Long-range Master Plans and to develop a program for the performance of regular maintenance and major repairs at the schools;

 

     (3)  Removing the language requesting that architectural and engineering teams serve as trusted advisors and program managers who work with the Department of Education in developing the plans and who are ineligible to complete for the projects that may create a conflict of interest due to their work on the management plans;

 

     (4)  Adding concerns and ideas for the Department of Education to consider as they develop Master Plans with the assistance of appropriate design professionals;

 

     (5)  Amending the title to reflect the amended purpose; and

 

     (6)  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 Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 157, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 157, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education and Housing,

 

		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair