Okay. So, I still go like, >> "Yes, >> you need to fix this." >> They need to fix it. Rural, suburban, and other districts that are just don't have the ability to fund the schools the way some districts do. Absolutely. We should be mad as hell. >> I'm there. >> I am too. And my kids are educated. You know, I have grandchildren. They'll also be educated. But not everybody has that luxury. Um, and we owe it to the the folks in our communities to stand up for them. Yes. Thank you. If you find those links helpful, and I'll tell you, I provided links that I use all the time. Um, I also get the newsletter from the Attorney General's Office of Open Government, which um comes out once a month and and highlights some of the OML determinations. But you can go in and look at OML determinations on your own through the Attorney General's website at any time.
And we want to get solid numbers. We want to have uh uh true study so we understand what we're up against and what we need to bring forward to possibly submit in the capital budget again this year. Um that was one of the items. Should we just deal with that one first or should we >> Okay. Um we also spoke uh last night about roof replacement at Highland School. It was going to be way over our anticipated uh budget. We had anticipated $ 1.5 million. That's going to be in the $4 million ballpark. Um Miss Taylor, would you like to supplement? >> Sure. >> Yeah. So, we in our capital projects update, we talked about the Highland roof project. So, um as Mark shared, we had initially budgeted about $ 1.5 million for a complete roof replacement. It's about 100,000 square feet at Highland. Um, and we had put that in the 28 29 2930 school years of our most recently approved capital plan.
I'm Phil industry. I was in the hotel business for 20some years, 40 years ago, and we had industries coming into Big Island. However, but it still seems like we don't have a statute that clearly defines uh and this is an important industry for our state. So um okay maybe we need to look at some future like soon Mary Alice recommendation to make some changes. >> Uh senator thank you very much. Uh you have uh currently in the bill you have the uh director of the office of planning and sustainable development along with DBED DLNR uh on the oversight committee. So that uh uh as long as that stays in the bill and the bill moves forward for further discussion then I can continue to offer >> well we shouldn't be doing statutes only for certain island I mean counties you know it should be you know something that should be statutoily for the state because the industry travels throughout our state and you know we need the industry you know to help us going further but I think there's lots of work now Where are we on the our Hawaii state plan that could address part of this issue?
And you can search by topic, by community. There's a lot of different ways you can search. You can see I'm a school committee geek. >> Thank you. so much. >> Thank you. Thank you all. It's always a pleasure coming here. Thank you. Going to stop sharing my screen because it seems like we are approaching the end of this item. All right, I think we are ready to continue on. Um, our next item is a report of student representatives. Our student representatives couldn't be here tonight. So, my understanding is that Superintendent Doyle will be giving part giving the report in theirstead. Yes, I'll um I ran through I was fortunate enough to do some of it the last meeting just before we lost connectivity and a few of the other things that are mentioned for our students are the library club is doing a book to movie event on Friday February 27th after we return from our vacation next week.
Just as a reminder, our capital plan is approved like a year at a time. So even though it's put in the budget, it's not actually approved until the the subsequent year. Um, so again, we had put $750,000 in um each of those years, but we did a design project through Silver Petraeli. That work was recently completed and the project estimate was actually $4 million. So, uh, in order to replace the roof, we are going to have to put change that from 1.5 to $4 million. You know, obviously when the planning committee meets next month, we can talk about what years we're going to put those in. Um, the other piece of the Highland roof project is this is a project that is eligible for the school construction grant where you get the reimbursement for 50%. So, a $4 million project becomes a $2 million project.
>> The Hawaii state plan. Thank you, legislators. We're in our second year of uh collecting input. We're going to put all the good suggestions that it came a couple came in bills that you saw, green infrastructure uh and others uh uh into uh a uh a revised chapter that the legislature can consider. Uh we want to uh call out some of the things that have changed since the 70s when that >> Yeah. But what plan? Because we had 12 functional plants. So the changes would with regards to this issue would be under agriculture or where would you decide? >> I I put it in economic development. >> Economic develop okay I don't want to bel labor this because there's lots of bills before [clears throat] us but lots of work to do chair and I I don't agree with her you know the concerns that I mean the questions that are raised.
This is a co-hosting of a book to movie event with the Mosaic Club. They're going that collaboration will honor both Black History Month and the upcoming women's history month by showing the film Hidden Figures. Doors open at 5:30 for pizza and popcorn and the movie will start at six o'clock. This is a community event and all are welcome. Also, with digital wellness that's working out in January, both the health A and B classes at the high school visited the library for a week of lessons about digital citizenship. Among other topics, the students learned about our digital footprints and who is looking at them. And I think as we all know and we just heard some things, sometimes delete is never deleted, right? in life. Um, we all have to remember that. And our trivia team, also known as as schools match wits. Many of you may recall that from these days, had just filmed their final episode and that will be airing in mid to late mid to late April.
But again, that's still significantly more than the 1.5 we were budgeting for. So, that was one project. Uh, I'm going to just skip over the turf for a second. Um, the other capital project that we actually don't need to talk about from a monetary perspective, but just a good update perspective is um the Cheshire High School weight room. There was the anonymous donor who was donating the flooring and all the new equipment for the weight room. But in order for that to happen, we needed to we need to update the HVAC. There is no HVAC in the wait room right now, which you will know if you ever go in there at a certain time of year. Um, and so we moved forward with uh design services through Lauro for the wait room to um get that work done. They are supposed to put together a bid package by the end of March so that we can go to bid in the beginning of April with an estimated timeline for the weight room HVAC renovation of June 8th through August 21st.
>> Thank you Senator. Sorry. Um and I think this bill is great and I guess um not everybody understanding and Georgia know we know because um Hawaii Island is one of the difficult places for uh filming on egg. >> Um there's so much hoops and loops to get through. So something like this will help streamline we don't have as much because we do film in a lot of areas. But a lot of the neighbor islands for whatever reason the county would just be I guess the watcher of the gate. So something like this would really help the the film industry with the neighbor islands. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you chair. Any other questions? Thank you. See none. Uh moving on to Senate Bill 3085 relating to the Hawaii film studio. Uh first up Georgia Skinner. uh see our testimony and support really helps us to build out the full package that the legislature is also proposing to help make our film industry more competitive.
We'll get you that date and we can't tell you how they did. You have to watch to find out as you know. So, it's that's going on and plans are coming up for a dodgeball tournament in April that has begun. Anybody who would like to participate can put together a team and do that. Um I don't know if I'm up for dodgeball. I I think some of us probably don't want to relive our youth anymore. Well, we do, but sometimes we want to come to work the next day as well. So that are that completes the some of the reports from our students. Thank you. >> All right.
So this project is actually covered by a previously approved capital project. So it doesn't require money. It's already been approved. Um but the June 8th through August 21st timeline is just the HVAC. I need to get some more information from um John Parisino about like the the flooring piece and how long that that would potentially take. Um but that's just a general update about where that project stands now. Um and then the last piece is the turf. So I don't know if you want me to provide any context or you're you want to take it away. Mark, >> you want to you want to just deal with the because the track is a new item for me. >> Yes. Great. Um so in the beginning of January we um one thing that had come up in the last planning meeting in December was uh potentially getting some information about a track and field replacement.
Thank you. >> Thank you. Next up, Lauren Yasaka for Department of [clears throat] Land and Natural Resources. >> Thank you. Next up, director uh uh business economic development in support. >> Thank you. Uh next up, Irish Barber on Zoom. Stop driving Irish before you get into an accident. >> I have you on Bluetooth. Aloha, chair, vice chairs, and uh members of the committees. Uh we stand on our written testimony and support and mahalo for allowing us to testify. >> I wouldn't accept her. >> Next up, Angela Young. >> Angela Melody Young in strong favor um of this legislation. So um if uh DLNR specialty is not business management and film making then it should let DBED help manage these aspects of growth in the film making industry um with no need for landboard approval for new tenants to utilize the studio. Um, but DNR can provide advice about appropriate use and inappropriate use and the impact of filmmaking activities to be conducted on DLNR properties to protect from damage um and to advise on Native Hawaiian cultural practices so that activities conducted does not physically degrade the land and infrastructure.
Um I would ask for any questions, but I'm not sure if Roland would be able to answer them for us. Um, okay. Reports from the administration. Um, I do not see our business manager online and I believe that he was doing a school visit. >> Yes. You know, being this being a um changed meeting from last week, it is school vacation week. So, our business manager and assistant superintendent are not with us tonight. I can briefly go over it. Um, you have the business report that was submitted over a week ago. They're showing our local budget as the normal practice, how they charge it, the numbers in front of you. Um, things are comfortable. The trends are still showing no cause for alarm and there is a recap on the back for how FY25 ended f focusing on the closeout and you have all that.
A few years ago we had asked SLR um a consulting firm to provide us a couple different scenarios including a track and field replacement a total mccclary renovation of all of the fields in CHS. Those those range from $ 1.5 million to I think about $7 million. It was you know a wide variety of projects and just the SLR what completed the original design work when we replaced the turf in 2011 15 years ago. Um and that was ultimately installed by uh RA Shaw Rad Sports. So after our last um planning committee meeting, we went out and um like kind of solicited um some proposals from a couple different companies that we were familiar with including SLR, uh Banesh, Laurio uh and there were three other firms. Ultimately, SLR, Banash, and Laurio um submitted a proposal and um including in that proposal was everything from initial design all the way through construction management of the completion of the um the turf.
And um so you know actually you know Barbie was not filmed on a farm although in the movie it looks like it's filmed on a farm. It was actually filmed in a studio in the United Kingdom. So when you have more studios you have more television shows, movies and you have thriving families and middle class people who have jobs. Um so policies should empower the filmmakers industry's voice to foster authentic representation and um to help um with storytelling to build active and >> time is up. Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Uh so we have seven other people in support of this measure. Anybody else in the room wishing to testify on this measure?
I would not be the best person tonight to answer a lot of your questions. Um, I could try, but I would probably defer the majority of those. I mean, we may want to hold or you can reach out. Um, I know that Andy is always available via phone or email and we'll get back to you pretty quickly. >> Great. And then I will just also note for the record that um, members were forwarded from the city uh, information about the school revolving accounts and we do have Steve Deberau online if you want to ask about that. I did. Well, I guess I should say he's here. He didn't agree to answer questions necessarily, but I'm kind of putting him on the spot a little bit, but just to note that we have that. I might recommend that you take some more time to look that over and gather your questions for for the next meeting.
And I'm I'm going to just stick with the track for now. But one thing that we didn't really discuss last time when we talked about the turf and and just as a reminder, that project was ultimately pushed um by the town council into year one and went to referendum. So that was not the initial recommendation of the board of education. Um it failed referendum, but that did not include the track. The track is from the 1990s. There are um some beyond it being older, there are some renovations that need to be done to the long jump and the fencing because of where the fencing is in relation to the running lanes or the the track lanes. Um, and so what we want to what we have instead of just talking about the turf, we are talking about potentially turf and track replacement, which don't have to be replaced together, but you know that that can be done.
Seeing none members, any questions? [clears throat] Uh quick question for DNR, please. Uh, so do you see any problems with granting this exemption so debate can streamline its use of the film studio? >> No, we don't often I think enter into these agreements or we have to let them. They're like kind of few and far in between and it takes burden off the staff to be honest and we're fine with the film studio doing so. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Um, moving on. Uh, Senate Bill 3169 relating to coastal resilience. Uh, >> first up, Michael King, testifying for Department of Land and Natural Resources. >> Uh, good afternoon, chairs, committee members. Um, I just want to add a little bit to the testimony. Um, or I want to parcel it out. Um, we have zero concerns with DBED taking the lead and doing the planning and coordination to respond to the erosion at Montuji Bay.
Sound good? Okay. Thanks, Steve, for being here. Um, okay. With that, we can move along to the assistant superintendent report. And superintendent, >> you have a written report in front of you. Um, I will just briefly I'm going to really skim over it. Professional learning, we just had our last full day professional development June January 30th. And educators participated in grade banded sessions aligned to their district priorities and all educators also participated in restorative practice learning that day. There's a brief grants update there about the high dosage early learning tutor literacy turning tutoring reading proficiency by grade three is a critical benchmark for our students. High dosage early literacy tutoring focuses on strengthening foundational skills including funological awareness, phonetics and decoding to help students become independent fluent readers in their early grades. This is similar to the work that our teachers are already doing during core instruction and intervention blocks.
Um, you know, you can replace one or the other, but that was just something that we didn't really talk about at all last year. So with that, pass it back to you, Mark. >> Okay. So even though the uh turf failed a referendum in the fall, I think that uh personally I think we need to get keep pushing that forward just because it is going to be 15 years old this November and turf fields don't last 15 years and we are you know we're really rolling the dice every year that we don't replace that and I just don't want the town to be stuck in a situation where it fails the impact test and the uh we're stuck without a facility for our athletes, not just the the high school athletes, but uh all the youth sports as well. Um that is such a an integral part of our community and we need to do something about it.