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that's the meat of the audit report but most of that is really notes to explain what all the charts um what the few pages of charts and tables mean related to our financials um and again I'm just taking a quick minute here there's some Supple supplementary information on pages 51 through 67 you'll see a list of things there that we have to report in our financials but aren't necessarily a fiscal impact in our normal operating procedures like our opeb liability like our net pension liability those are things we have to book as liabilities but it's not necessarily an expense for us in operating um the meat of the audit is really findings of questions question costs and I'm happy to report in our financial statements and our federal Awards we had none we were clean in those programs for our independent auditor unfortunately we did have a couple State award findings the first one it was very it was kind of interesting we overstated our Ada at uh P2 by 1.19 and typically previously the state would allow us to make adjustments to our P2 and annual Ada if they were not certified yet but the state switched over the standard account code structure software the sax software from uh from the previous module to a new online version and what they did is they decided to lock districts out of making those changes after a certain date so even though these were discovered during the audit we attempted to correct them prior to the completion of the audit but the state would not allow us hence it becomes a finding with the fiscal impact of about fifteen thousand dollars of apportionment um in past years that wouldn't even have appeared we would have corrected it it would have been taken care of and our second finding was merely our e-log our expanded learning Opportunity Grant monies that we received um we were required to submit the plan within five days of board approval we submitted it on the eighth day so they have to give us a finding even though there is absolutely no Financial impact any questions good job thank you Matt I know you have a motion second all in favor all right delegate authority to the assistant superintendent administrative services to execute the agreement of all necessary amendments with the California professional management for construction management services for the Granite Hills High School Athletic Facility second all in favor aye Grant authorization to the assistant superintendent administrating services to issue the notice of intent to award the exact execute contract documents and issue notice of to proceed where the fire alarm upgrades project at Sycamore Rocks in yakaloma second I'll second all in favor aye aye next is a consent agenda it is recommended that the board approved all the items in one vote it'll be 1 through 21. do I have a motion a second one second all in favor all right we don't need a second closed session so it looks like the only thing we have left is um I need a motion to adjourn come on second yeah all right all in favor all right all right all right I was just curious how long we could go well you won't be long with me thank you for coming this is a fine display of democracy it really is what this country is all about thank you
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Again, welcome to the Senate Committee on Education. Today is Friday, February 3rd. It is 3:00 3:20 p.m. and we are in hearing room 229. This meeting, including the audio and video of remote participants, is being streamed live on YouTube. You will find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislaturator's website. This Zoom meeting and YouTube live stream event will include this 3:00 p.m. agenda for the Committee on Education. In the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties, the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Monday, February 5th, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. in room 229. And a public notice will be posted on the legislaturator's website. And I'd like to take this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings, we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier per bill.
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Wednesday was Candyland pajama day Thursday was a clue where students dressed up as someone else and today is game on Blue Devils wear your blue and white congratulations to the sophomore class for winning the gym decorating contest to the senior class for a wedding dress that day and participation here are your overall class points winner for the week in fourth place with 140 points the lonely fresher the third place with 280 points the sophomores second place with 290 points for the juniors and the 400 overall points your class homecoming week winners are the seniors congratulations thank you to all who participated now your homecoming dance [Applause] FFA vice president and a free time she likes to home with her dad and go for their mom she also likes hanging out with friends and family playing games with Ashley and Rory and babysitting her nephew Taylor Halo is being escorted by Mr Bonnie Davis foreign ER Dr Daniel Lewis participates in volleyball cheerleading in softball Lily is also a member of Letterman's Club in yearbook and is a sophomore class student council representative and free time really likes bugging her mom making Messes in the kitchen with Koda and having photo shoots in front of the sunset with her friends will always being exported by Mr Oakley and Carter [Applause] cross-country basketball and baseball Oakley is also FFA Centennial outside of the school hopefully enjoys running four-wheelers with Brewery going hunting with his family going fishing with his grandpa our Junior attendants are missing Harley now Hopkins Arlington [Applause] RV is involved in FCCLA is a cheerleader in your free time Harley enjoys going to the shopping experience with her mom going to church with their grandparents and working at the daycare with an amazing co-workers Harley is being escorted by Mr Tristan the way he is [Applause] actually football basketball baseball and golf he's also a member of SCA FFA Letterman's Club National Honor Society and is a Blue Devil buddy and Joseph's free time he enjoys boys good Injustice getting Chinese food with Jay-Z and annoying his mom and making fun of his sister Jordan our kindergarten attended tonight with Miss baby [Applause] Mercedes favorite part of school is recess launch music class her favorite lunch is cheese pizza once Indie grows up he wants to be a singer our second kindergarten attendant is Mr Jackson McCoy Jackson Mississippi's favorite part of the school is playing on a playground and having play time his favorite school lunches hot dogs and salad with ranch and peaches when Jackson grows up he wants to be a basketball player if that doesn't work out he wants to be a cop because [Applause] volleyball and basketball she's a Blue Devil buddy and is active in sccoa math Team National Honor Society and Scholar Bowl Danielle is also an FFA reporter and a free time Danielle enjoys the meeting with her family and friends going to the gym driving around spilling some tea with her sophomore best friend Kaylee Danielle's favorite High School memory is going to an FFA dance and watching Mr Wells kill it on the Dance Floor to the song Ice Ice Baby Danielle's future plans included Timmy Waterford University getting a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy Danielle's being escorted by Mr Cody Nation Miller baseball [Music] Letterman's Club math Team National Honor Society and Scholars goal and it's free time to go to enjoy the practicing baseball working to spending time with his girlfriend Zoe Cody's favorite High School memory is going to nialla with gm2 with all other bands his future plans include attending ocu for associate of Arts degree in large organ science and business school to let her start his own business foreign [Applause] National Honor Society yearbook she's a believable buddy and also the Student Council secretary the senior class vice president and every time Madison enjoys working campus with all our friends FaceTiming Landry and hanging out with JC and her family even though the babies don't like her her favorite High School memory is just being with her best friends and joining your high school years especially Linden it makes her cry from laughing every day after graduation she plans to attend Pitt State and major in nursing and become a travel nurse and specialize in something later on Madison is being escorted tonight by Mr Dakota Blankenship [Applause] go to exactly football basketball baseball and golf he is also a Blue Devil buddy and a member of FCA FFA Letterman's club and is the student council representative in his free time go to enjoy speaking out with Lily watching movies of late night cruising because favorite High School memory was last year in the basketball season Olympic game winner against Conway Springs after graduation go to the police have a starting a welding career our next Senior Team going inmates or Mr Justice Norris and his Melody holds us participating in a volleyball basketball softball draft all four years at shs now he participates in SCA Letterman's Club National Honor Society and yearbook she's also a Blue Devil buddy student council vice president and is a senior class president and her free time nobody enjoys working at the daycare and hanging out with friends her favorite High School memories are playing sports with their best friends all four years of school after graduation developing plans to graduate from Pittsburgh State University Nursing degree Melanie is being escorted by Mr Justice Norris [Applause] Justice participates in football and basketball is also involved in FFA Blue double buddy and is a senior class student council representative and a Spare Time Justice and joy is going to New Journey with Tristan talking about girls with JC and Mrs Cummings and Casey's house Justice's favorite High School memory is one of the league championship of basketball this year after graduation just explains to attend college to become a graphic designer let's hear it one more time for 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For people participating remotely, please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify. When I call your name, unmute yourself and your time will begin. After your minute is completed, staff will mute you so that we can move this hearing along in an orderly and efficient manner. First on our agenda is Senate Bill 826 relating to school facilities authority and testifying is Lewis Salivaria, director budget and finance. Good afternoon chair uh Louis Salivia senators please come to the mic. Good afternoon chair. uh Louisis Salvia, director of department of budget and finance. You have our testimony providing comments. Uh again echoing uh some of the you know the comments that were provided by the LG. We support the bill but we would prefer or we would like the bill to be uh crafted in such a way where the deposit would be made in fiscal year 24 in order to uh address the issues associated with the maintenance of effort uh compliance issues.
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[Applause] and now a woman's involved in waiting for your 2023 basketball homecoming game is Justice Norris and your 2023 basketball homecoming queen is Melody hole [Applause] foreign [Applause] that's your problem [Applause] two minutes I don't know [Music] right now [Applause] [Music] thank you everybody get up
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Thank you Senator. Thank you director Thank you very much. Next to testify, Chad Faras, executive director, school facilities agency. Good afternoon committee for school facilities authority. We stand by written testimony and support. Be available for questions. Thank you, Chad. And we have written testimony and support by three others. I believe that uh Lieutenant Governor wanted to testify on this bill and she will be back in a minute. Due to difficulties we've been having, she left for another hearing.
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Members, do you have any questions on this Senate bill 826? Thank you. Moving on, Senate Bill 7 relating to SC to the School Facilities Authority makes necessary amendments to clarify certain references to the school facilities authority used in section 302A-1151.1 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes to testify. Exe Executive Director Chad Faras, please. Afternoon again, Chair Kani, members of the committee, Chad Kun Fis facilities authority and we stand by written testimony and support and we'll be available for questions. Thank you, Chad.
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Members, any questions? Next on the agenda, Senate Bill 941 relating to the school facilities authority appropriates funds to the school facilities authority for the construction of teacher and educator housing to testify. Chad Faras, executive director, school facilities authority. Thank you. Good afternoon, Chair, members of the committee. Chad Kuni Fus, School Facilities Authority. We stand by our written testimony and support. Be available for questions. Thank you, Chad. And we also have one written testimony and support. Members questions. Sure. for I guess is the three minimum three sites. Do you know where the sites will be? Yeah, we've been in uh conversations with with three sites for this. You're asking for that. Yeah. And I believe three sites the first uh principal you talked to is at Nanukuli High School. We also reached out to Milani and Waku. Thank you. Chair, a quick question. Yeah, thank you, Chair.
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Um, are we looking at any neighbor island locations? Yeah, absolutely. Um, not initially in the pilot here, but we have been in conversation with neighbor island sites as well. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, chair. Thank you. Thank you, Chad. But what I would like to recommend uh senators if you know of um sites whether it be schools or others particularly state lands we would be u happy to pass that on to SFA. Sure. Oh, I mean you you can only reason why I bring this up is because um Gentry keep been working with um Hamo Elementary about the land and they keep going back to this park by the school which the community don't really care for park because the park and the school don't mix. We have Campbell High School and the community park problems already. So, at one time I know that there was on the books of thinking about doing teacher housing on um Kanui Drive in uh actually is that totally off the uh radar or they going to be considering it because I like know so that I can protest everything else that you're going to try to do on that property.
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I mean, excuse me, go against everything that it's it's absolutely on the radar. We didn't get any real um positive movement forward with that, but we can definitely reach back and we'll get you. Yeah, please. Because what I'm going to do is is I'm going to reach out to her because she came to the neighborhood board talk about how they going to build a park and my community is very upset because the things that I was talking with Ed Sniffen and some other groups was that possible fixing and maintaining a roads true uh teacher and um you know um teacher housing or housing for our teachers in that area. So yeah, we reach out provide you feedback. I'll give it Thank you. Thank you, chair again. Thank you. Moving on. Next, Senate Bill 832 relating to education. This authorizes the counties to transfer land to the school facilities authority.
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Exempts the school facilities authority from taxes. Authorizes state and county agencies to render services. Establishes a deadline for the transfer of properties to the department of education from the city and county of Honu required by act 272 session laws of Hawaii 2019 to testify and Horuchi. Good afternoon, Chair Kadani, members of the committee, Deputy Attorney General Anne Hyuchi. Um, as set forth in our testimony, we're just proposing um an amendment that we we believe will provide some clarity to the bill. I'll stand by for questions. Thank you. Thank you, Ann. Next to testify, Chad Faras, please. Good afternoon, chair, members of the committee. uh Chad Kun FIA School Facilities Authority. Uh we stand by our written testimony and support and we'll be available for questions also. Thank you. Sure. Question. If I'm understanding this, authorize it, but is there something that prohibits county transferring to state for education?
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Is that why we have to authorize this? Because I know we do intergovernment transfer already. So yeah, I think this is just specific language making it more explicit on what what authorities will be given to the SFA. Okay. Yeah. Right. Thank you. Thank you. Just just one because a lot of properties like I in my community, nobody knew that it belonged to the city until we started construction and realized it wasn't state land, it was city land. So that's why I guess this is I really love this bill and finally getting it done so that we can get some stuff done in our Ever Beach community. Great. Thank you. Further questions. Um, Attorney General, can you just uh for the senators here uh specify what your um recommended non-substantive changes are? Um with regard to um what is in the bill at on the first page, it's just providing um clarity to when uh there's a reference to the word it on line nine that we think should be changed to the county so it's clear that what we're referring what's being referred to.
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And then the same thing um following that where it says its purposes, we uh suggest changing it to the authorities purposes. Again, this is just to provide clarity. What line was that one? Uh, its purposes is on line 10. I see it. Yeah. And the it the other previous it is on line nine. Thank you for the members questions again. Moving on. Senator Bill relating to the early learning board amends the composition and qualifications of the early learning board to consist of individuals from each county instead of from particular entities or types of providers. Establishes general qualifications for the members of the early learning board appointed by the government to testify. Bob Peters, chair of the early learning board. Good afternoon, Chair Kadani and members of the committee. Um, I am Bob Peters, the chair of the early learning board and appreciate the opportunity to offer some comments on SB 1022 on behalf of the board.
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The board has not met yet to discuss this bill. It meets this coming Thursday. So, I'm only offering comments on some of the work that's been happening within the board. The governance subcommittee of the board is currently engaged in investigating governance models, including the type of option presented in the bill along with public board best governance practices to identify an effective governing model and composition. Specifically, it's trying to determine a governance model that combines the value inherent in stakeholder and provider participation with the needs of effective governance and to define the roles, responsibilities, and duties of the governing board members to effectively move the state early childhood plan forward and build an early childhood system. We appreciate that. Let um doing uh any recommendation at this meeting and we'll bring this back at a later time for us to wait um for that um meeting minutes.
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How long does it take you to get minutes out? It's usually about two to three weeks, but we can probably fast track those. Okay. Well, we'll we will put this back on the agenda before the end of February. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Bob. Okay. And the last item on our agenda is Senate Bill 1022 relating to early learning. Again, this is appropriates money for the preschool open doors program and executive office on early learning to expand access to preschool and to implement program changes required by previous acts. Expands the types of entities from which a preschool open door service provider may obtain accreditation. authorizes the preschool open door special fund to accept federal funds appropriates funds to testify. Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke, this is on Senate Bill 1023. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, members. uh in strong support of this bill.
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Uh right now um in order for us to provide um preschool access to both three and four year olds, we would need statutory revisions in both uh EOEL and preschool open doors to open the access to three-year-olds. Right now both uh executive office of early learning and um preschool open doors only have statutory authority to provide um preschool services for four year olds. And as you know uh in the private sector we pres when we talk about preschools is really three and four year olds. So this will open up um access to a lot more families. uh the amount that is uh in this budget or or in this bill for preschool open doors, it will provide opportunities for a lot more low-income families by not just increasing um access to three-year-olds, but increasing subsidies given to um families. Um you probably know that, you know, preschool is not cheap anymore.
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It's about um you know instead of having it $500 or $600, people are spending $1,500 and $1,500 a month is equivalent to somebody's rent. So it's really forcing families to decide whether they're going to pay rent that month or pay for childcare services. Um so those are the things that um are encompassed in this bill among many others. So, thank you for your consideration and uh we urge the committee for strong support of this effort as well. Mahalo. Thank you. Members, are there questions of the lieutenant governor? Why you guys scared? No. Thank you, Madam Lieutenant Governor. Next to testify, Kathy Betts, director of Department of Human Services. Good afternoon, chair and committee members. Scott Nakasoni representing Department of Human Services.
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Uh department um supports this bill and has provided comments and I'm here to answer any questions uh should we have any. Thank you members. Any questions for Scott? Thank you. Next to testify, Bob Peters, chair of the early learning board. Your learning board standard testing. Thank you, Bob. Next to testify, Koku Ritz, director, Hawaii Children's Action Network Speaks. Aloha chair, members of the committee. Um, Kurilitz, director of early learning with the Hawaii Children's Action Network speaks. Um you have our testimony. I know there's pretty extensive comments so I won't go over them one by one. Um but I did want to highlight one of the things that we are in support of is the idea of universal access. But for us we want to make sure that that access is meaningful for families. And one of the largest as the lieutenant governor mentioned one of the largest barriers for families and I can speak from experience as a mom of three kids is cost.
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And so we're in very strong support of increasing access for preschool open doors and investment in preschool open doors and want to make sure that it is accessible to everyone because when we think about universal particularly when it comes to price we're looking at very low cost or no cost to most families. And so this is one option to do that. We also have comments on the um expansion of executive office on early learning um providing services for three-year-olds.
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Um, I'll leave those to you, but again, just want to make sure that whenever we're going to expand to three-year-olds or to any children that we're doing so in a way that is developmentally appropriate and I'm here for any questions. Thank you, Koko members questions. Thank you. Next to testify, Vivian Itto for Children Action Strategy. Good afternoon, Chair Kadani and members of the committee. Um I'm Vivian Etto and I'm here on behalf of Early Childhood Action Strategy um in support of Senate Bill 1023. Um you have our written testimony, so I just wanted to highlight a few things. uh mainly that uh we are very in very strong support of the expansion of preschool open doors. We think it's a critical strategy to expanding access not only to uh well expanding access to our community-based programs which can serve the different needs of children and families in numerous ways that go beyond uh the public preschool classrooms that are available.
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