We're happy to answer any questions. Well, come forth cuz you are the only one justifying. Anybody else wishing to testify just to be official? No? Okay, you are it. Okay, so what exactly you need, how much do you need, and why do you need it for the revenue bonds? So, this would be for the second half of the biennium. So, last year the legislature appropriated 30 million 750,000 in each year of the biennium for CIP expenditures in revenue bonds. Uh but, last year the legislature for the authorization, because in addition to the expenditure, we need the authorization to issue those bonds. Uh the legislature only issued the first year, which was the 30 million 750,000. So, the sec This would be for the second year authorization. So, we'll have a total of $61,500,000 in order to issue the revenue bond that was appropriated this biennium.
That's one of the reasons if you if you decide to get two doing the interviews then you don't need to do that. we can certainly do ours and then kind of bring together and just give an update on we selected a few and yeah, >> you know, we don't have to get overly specific with that component. Yeah. Right. So, just I think we can be nimble about how to move forward if everybody's kind of >> in agreement with that. I mean, I I'd like to kind of suggest that you two keep kind of rolling with it and figuring out how to make Yeah. this kind of come together and then we can at the next, you know, meeting or if we need to as far of a kind of stronghold with me to be able to kind of figure out how the next steps look if need be.
>> All right, so we'll have to adjourn here. >> The agenda had a set of minutes. Are those >> I didn't notice them. >> No minutes. >> No, not available. >> No minutes. Okay. So, and member prerogative anything there. Okay. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call vote. Acriman I. >> Crow. I. >> Crouch. I. Atinson.
And that revenue bond is for student housing. Correct. Not for anything else. It's just for student housing. Okay. Senator Hashimoto, that was your measure, right? So. Yeah. Anybody? Okay, thank you. Okay, next item Senate Bill I keep saying Senate Bill. House Bill 2461 House Draft 1. Uh this is the Maritime Youth Apprentice Pathway Program directing the University of Hawaii Community College in partnership with the state agencies and maritime workforce to conduct a study and develop a plan for statewide maritime youth apprentice program individuals 16 to 24. And here to testify we have let's see, Ardis Eschenberg for the University of Hawaii online on Zoom. Aloha mai kakahiaka, Chair Mercado Kim, Senators Dela Cruz and Hashimoto. Thank you for uh like testimony today. We stand on our testimony as sent in. Mahalo and sit by for questions as well. Okay, uh let's see. For the Chamber of Commerce, Sherry Manoa.
>> Yeah. I mean, if you two are willing to spearhead it because I I'm seeing here you've got a pretty good description of what the job would entail. >> Yeah. I it's a ISB sample and then I pulled some of the the points that Rob and I felt were really important like working with um the primary level um that we also wanted to ensure that they were in the principal advisory committee. Um and the rest of it I think was pretty much already on there. >> Okay. >> Where I didn't touch too much of it. Um and the only thing is that they had two this is and I want to be really clear um transparent I should say. ISB a lot of their model was that the principal and the superintendent um interviewed and it was staff recommendations. when Rob and I were going through it, we felt that it was something at this time that the board could handle.
We have Nadia in place of Sherry. Aloha chair, members of the committee. Um Nadia Holt here for Chamber of Commerce Hawaii standing on our written testimony in support. Mahalo. >> Okay, thank you. And we have 11 others all in support. Anyone else here wishing to testify? Not Okay, can we have artists back? Artists? Mhm. Okay. Um just a quick question. So what is the demand for this program? So there is a demand among employers who are often having to export or import workers. And we've just begun to develop with Kamehameha Schools Voyaging Association and Kailua High School a potential pathway from high school into college. We're also working with formerly Cal Maritime, now Caltech, which is our closest maritime institution on a transfer pathway from the associates into a bachelor's program for our students. Okay. Thank Members, any other questions? Um Artists, since you're here, um just to be clear, this is to fund a study, not the actual apprenticeship program?
Um, especially since we were kind of building it up and that having at least that one staff recommendation kind of like put that part in it, but would also open up the doors to to more students and a little bit more diverse um, collection of abilities and you still have to have that staff recommendation to help with that part too, just so we kind of get a background. But, I mean, in there you have to be in good academic standings. It doesn't specify how many clubs you're in or anything like that. So, it gives us that ability to really get students in who are really really interested but not um just one kind of criteria of kid. Um I think the only part that we really need to one of the parts that we really need to hammer out today would be how we get the applications back to us.
So it's largely for the study so we get the concrete data from employers as well as concrete pathways so that we provide the best training and multiple levels so that if there's a level that they can do in high school and then come out for a certain jobs with that versus the associates versus the bachelors. So it's that larger study and the data for that. And then um part of that will be piloting the initial program through Windward and Kealoha High School. How much of the funds is going towards the study? The bulk of the fund. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Chair. And they'll be left over in order to go ahead and, um, uh, implement? That is the hope that part of it would go towards the pilot itself. We'd like to do some short-term credentials with the students as we're doing it to build up their ability to, um, be labor ready.
Like if there's Google forms, how does that work? So that can we have them go to like a Cindy? I don't know if there's like a a board or a board email like where do can the applications come back to if they were like on a Google doc, >> you know? >> Well, we can I mean >> Okay, I'm about to expose my technical >> Did you say we can >> technology skills or lack of >> I mean we can have them pop into a population into a folder. Uh, so if you do it through a Google form, >> yeah, >> it's submitted, it gets collected into a folder and that folder can be shared with the board >> and and then you all can just peruse >> that that I think that would be ideal so that we're not all just like, oh my god, the day before the board meeting just starting to go through applications.
Like boating safety, those kinds of thing. Okay, thank you. Okay, that's the end of our agenda. I'm going to recess, um, go into decision-making. Calling the education committee back to order for decision-making. Starting off with House Bill 1605. This is the human, um, community and community resilience appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii Manoa Tropical Agriculture. Uh, the recommendation is to blank out the appropriations amount on page three. Uh, the date is already defective. We don't have to do that. And, um, I would like to see a little bit more, um, data on how these funds and funding actually, um, result in actual decreases in what we're trying to achieve. But, um, yes, we'll we'll blank out the amount and pass as an amendment. Uh, SD1. Uh, Chair votes aye. Members, HB 1605 HD1 chair's recommendations pass with amendment. Chair votes aye. Vice chair is excused.
If there's five, fine. But the only question I had for that is we are asking that part of this application process, they get that staff recommendation. Is there a way for the staff for that to tie and somehow match in behind the scenes to that? No. So, how can that hand how can we handle that part? Are we just kind of want match them up as they come in? Maybe I mean I that's I think there's ways to be able to say the staff person would have to put the person's name on it. They're recommending and then we can tie them together. I mean I think that's a solvable nuance that there are ways out there to deal with it. So, I think it's a good plan. >> Okay. Um that way if that way also if the staff member can give that the staff recommendation could give a like it doesn't have to go through the student like college recommendations are right like yeah here it is and this is my opinion about whether the student >> why they're a good fit for this.
Senator Fukunaga is excused. Uh I vote aye. Senator DeCourt. >> Aye. Chair recommendations adopted. >> Thank you. And for Senate Bill I keep saying that. For House Bill 2171, uh this is engaging the University of Hawaii to engage in enterprise related activities for educational purposes. Recommendation is uh technical and non-substantive amendments for clarity and consistency. The date is already defective. Um and I hope that we will get a little bit more clean tightened language of this moving forward into Ways and Means and possibly to a conference.
Yeah, you know and that if they didn't submit one that the student doesn't need to know they didn't submit one per se. So >> you know >> well the student would have to know that you would want it because if we won't we won't take the I mean or we could I guess but they >> take it you just they wouldn't get moved to the next phase. >> Yeah. Yeah, I guess we could always look at what's coming in and if they're missing, reach out to the We'll figure that. I don't know that part. I don't want a student to be not have a chance, you know, if that does happen, then maybe they have another staff member they can ask. >> In theory, they would talk around and ask. Did you say, "Oh, I didn't have chance." You know, that kind of thing. >> Okay.
Any discussion? Hearing none, the chair votes aye. HB 2171 chair's recommendations pass with amendment. Chair votes aye. Any members voting with reservations? Any member voting no? With the excuse of Senator Fukunaga and Senator Kidani for this and all others. Chair recommendations adopted. >> Okay. House Bills 1873 House Draft 2. This is relating to the border regions. Uh this is a whole bunch of, you know, retreat exempt from retreat. Okay. Um recommendation is to change the or to include instead of being just one retreat a year, we will put one six-hour retreat per year. Um and the date is already defective. We don't have to change the defective date to another defective date, do we? In this case, you're already creating a SD. Yeah. Oh, okay. We weren't creating a SD rule. Okay. I see. Okay. So, again, recommendation that we add in a 6-hour exemption once a year instead of just an exemption once a year cuz that exemption could be a whole week.
Yeah. >> So, work based learning experience. >> There you go. >> Application. >> Yeah. >> So, how are we going to advertise this? >> How are we going to get the word out? >> How we can you help us? All uh >> Rob is right down the >> Oh, that's that's very >> All right, we already talked. We're I'm already team student board member. So, yeah, we'll work together to make it work. >> Are we >> so do through like the news, our weekly digest and then we're going to ask Joan to put something in the high school newsletter. that probably be the best and we can always just do a email out to those grades uh families to ask for them. >> I I mean I think the question before the board primarily about the nuances of how things happen and whatever to me is not I think those are nuances that can get worked out is do we as a board want to go through a process for this and end up with the junior and the senior as a as a as a student board members.
So, any discussion? Chair votes I. Members, HB 1873 HD2 Chair's recommendation is pass with amendment. Chair votes I. Any members voting with reservations? Any member voting no? No vote. No votes. Senator DeCoite? Chair, recommendations adopted. >> Thank you. Members, got to go back to House Bill 1605. The appropriation is already blanked out and so we are going to defect the date so it'll still be in SD1. So, defect the date to 7/31 2055. Okay. So, this what That was HB 1605. >> Yes, it's the first one. Um anyone wishing to change their vote? Or Chair's recommendation is pass with with amendments. No, I think it's the same. Anyone knows? Okay. Chair's recommendation is adopted. >> Okay, thank you. Okay, we are on House Bill 1952 authorizing issuance of geo bonds for improvements to the University of Hawaii Tropical Agriculture Human Resource for the Kauai Extension Station.
Right. >> Right. >> Who Google Docs aside and whether recommendation letters come in after >> you guys will think through that or others will so >> in a couple days. >> Yeah. Right. Yeah. >> So maybe a couple other real quick things. So policywise, do we need to change anything? Tom and I kind of talked a little bit. >> Yeah. Rob and I spoke today about that. And based on what our current policy language is, I I'm not sure there's any policy change that needs to be made. Okay. it it the language is encompassing enough that the changes you're making are more of the pu uh administrative procedures and even in there I think t Danielle you kind of highlighted that earlier I think the model that was used to build the ambassador program has a lot of similar pillars there so might have to tweak a couple things here and there but um yeah no >> it's just >> I wouldn't let that hold you back >> it's the ambassador program just a little leveled up and bringing the voices literally to the table um and giving them opportunity and we will definitely have to work on a lot of those other parts of it as we open up, you know, and and figure things out.
Recommendation is as is cuz appropriation is already blanked out and we already have a defective date. So, so we need a effective date. So, in SD1 I'm moving it up. Again, the same effective date, July 31, 2055. Chair votes I. Members, HB 1952 HD1 Chair's recommendation is pass with amendment. Chair votes I. Any members voting with reservations? Any members voting no? With all others voting I, recommendations adopted. Great, thank you. Senate House Bill 2050 2005 House Draft 2 establishes a statewide language access and education workforce development program. The Senate bill's already moving over. However, we go ahead and send this out to Ways and Means in case something happens, we will defect the date.
One of the things that we really talked about too is >> just really understand this and be very fluid, right? That we're we're going to be pivoting. We're going to be asking the students in the first year, can you like just to basically make this role work and that's a big assignment. >> Yeah. We got to really understand, like I said, we're we're expecting like responsibility increase, >> but we got to remember they're still students. So, we we're going to be monitoring that, making sure we're not doing too much here or throwing too many things at them. Um, so one of the other things, uh, just it's in the notes here. But the advisory votes, that's kind of a issue that comes up with the student board members. Our initial recommendation is no on that, but that's like Daniel says, that's one we can pivot after we get some more experience in learn about that.