001good afternoon Welcome to our joint committee on education and Public Safety welcome to the senate committee in education and Public Safety today is Monday the 3rd is three o'clock a.m 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 website this Zoom meeting and YouTube live stream event will include five o'clock agenda or three o'clock agenda for the committee on education and Public Safety in the unlikely event that we must abruptly end this hearing due to Major technical difficulties the committee will be convened to discuss any outstanding business on Monday March wait what am I reading on Monday not March 22nd what is Monday April
0023rd 10th April 10th [Music] wouldn't it be Wednesday at five o'clock today oh okay so if you could be perfect Michelle this is amazing and YouTube live stream event will include the three o'clock agenda for the committee on education and Public Safety unlikely event that we must have properly end this hearing due to Major technical the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Monday March 22nd at five o'clock P.M in this room 229 and a public notice will be posted I would have to do it today okay sorry should have read it and corrected it earlier to discuss we will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Monday April 3rd 2023 at five o'clock P.M in room 229 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website I'd like to take
003this time to remind our testifiers that due to time restrictions on our hearings we will be limiting testimony to one minute per testifier for bill for 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 orgy and efficient manner we hope that's the hardest thing I have to do okay first up on our joint agenda for the committee on education and Committee on Public Safety and intergovernmental and Military Affairs is Senate concurrent resolution for the internet resolution 34 requesting the Department of Education in collaboration with the Honolulu Police Department to establish and operate a junior
004Police pilot program at Barrington High School and first to testify is superintendent Kita yashi good afternoon cheers Vice chairs members of the committee Raymond fujino on behalf of the superintendent and the Department of Education we stand in our written testimony offering comments thank you for this opportunity and individual and support Kendrick Farm is she here oh he sorry I'm chair Mr chair members of the committee um I stand in support of this resolution and I'm here for any questions thank you help me testifiers I have are there any questions of our testifiers Doe okay so I'm reading your testimony can you share it with the public so they know what your testimony entails okay okay [Music] sorry I just have the talking points I didn't tell me okay on the pilot program we feel difficult
005for uh to initiate and sustain without the expertise and support of the whole Honolulu police department so I think that'll be key and as well as appropriated funding for the program um I don't think this is a normal kind of curriculum that you know one of our teachers can can take over so I think if we have the proper partnership and appropriate funding I think we could do it but that'll be integral part of it okay so is there have you ever had an interaction with um no we haven't no and is that something that you think that um folks would want to do I'm not yeah I was trying to connect with um principal carbonella if this was you know a program that he initiated but I could not uh neighborhood board board would
006there be space on the campus for such yeah I'm not sure I'm not sure like how detailed this kind of training because I when the title came out junior Police it was assigned to us because our driver traffic safety education program especially you know our RT John Meeker does the jpo field day and does uh pedestrian safety but when reading the resolution it seems that like a kind of like a police yeah a training program for potential police candidates and yes that's something um you know I think would have to be done at a higher level than myself that could be done at the community yeah I think um because the is it the age of a police officer you can't go straight from high school right you need to have oh okay thank you
007very much okay hold this again oh sorry okay sounds like um the only reason why um it's interesting I just was talking to Senator cadani because I remember Farrington and Campbell had um I don't think it was called the police it was called what what was being said here junior Police or police cadet at the time and they had programs and the police I don't know if they still do it now but they used to wear all very very late blue clothes and they used to have the patch and they did that and the reason was that but not only for service but some of these Cadets good goal and After High School um interim league with college or whatever interning to the time to reach 21 to go into the academy and that was
008a pathway to the academy because you kind of carry one gun um registry to 21 but you could go to the academy and start learning channeling the police to have ongoing recruitment so I mean even if this resolution saying that there's no pathway um probably there's a way of of changing it around us so that these guys can have the training and if they want to continue the field because when I went Campbell uh you know 80s um they did it with the program before I came at Grandma High School my freshman year and I was looking forward into doing that but I mean if I did that I wouldn't be here and I'll be our chief the police but if you don't say it had programs so you weren't you were to find Canada
009for HPD back then yeah can you go look um maybe you know okay I don't know if you can I like this yes I know I recall there was a program yeah can you look I'm not sure where from where yeah okay how it was structured okay because I know Farrington had it and I know Campbell hair because my family went to fairy I think kanuki had some what year was that I mean early mid 70s and then they put away with it in 1983-84 they did away with it before I went to Campbell I'm sorry I mean it should have something right yeah I mean um assistant chief before he used to leave that before okay yeah John McCartney ask him because I remember we're talking about that I thought it was I thought
010Fairington still had the program so I thought I said I didn't know they did away with it okay okay thank you for the questions for anything on to accentures the next two resolutions are Senate concurrent resolution 70 and Sr 63 both the encouraging Congress to look at lending practices for online libraries for our testifiers list we have Stacy Aldrich from the State Library hi good afternoon chairs Vice chairs members of the committee on behalf of State librarian Stacy Aldridge we stand on our written testimony so thank you thank you that's all I have as indication of intent to testifiers measure anyone else online or in person that would like to testify on these two resolutions yes Amanda um Aloha members of the chamber chair Vice chairman and all that are present my name is Amanda
011Ibanez I'm a neighborhood board member for more than a decade Vice chair for Khalid Paloma District number 15. um when this is about the junior Police program at Farrington I'm born and raised and live in kaliki Library over on the library oh um sorry I thought this was still the other one okay I'm sorry we'll confirm with the education chair she says that we will allow you to testify the two previous resolutions oh okay thank you thank you John um so going back to um I'm born and raised in Kalihi and um I've also worked in the doe and currently I work at DHS and I do a lot of Outreach in the community and I do share the same sentiment with Senator Kirk Favela that these programs that once were Upon a Time did
012a lot of Justice to the community a lot of good community service came out of it and for some reason through the decades such great programs have been done away with for whatever natural attrition or things that have happened but for the community that I currently live in I have seen it um become kind of derelict and it's more like a US versus them a lot of the youngsters feel like HPD is the enemy or we fight them or we don't cooperate when we need to and um I want to change that rhetoric that we are one Oahu and men and women in blue are also our community leaders and they're family members too and we're not separate so I want to create I don't know that's why I came up with this idea of
013that pilot program that we take care of each other and we're not separated and that also helps for my community for the youngsters to have great jobs and um to have that mentorship program to stay out of trouble to be healthy to have good practices and to also be Community leaders in their own home so that's what I wanted to share thank you so much thank you we're going to move back to study concurrent resolution 70 and scr63 is there anyone else to testify on these two Library resumes yes hi Amanda um I was wondering if I could request the same um can you keep it to one minute though okay yeah okay so um I'm gonna be testifying in support of the junior Police pilot program um you know while we do support the
014intent of the measure um it is kind of lacking into planning um and the presenting of the policies for the pilot program the resolution is vague and ambiguous um is it the intention of the pilot program to train students to be then dispatched as officers is it the intention to provide vocational training and Workforce Development to prepare them for After High School to replace senior officers um is the intention to replicate an existing pilot program you know before taking action on this resolution it employers for further consideration for other pilot programs there are three Junior pilot programs um and exists to our cares uh research knowledge we research these three one the GPA program two the law enforcement explorers program and three the Guam Junior police cadet pilot program the jpo program is implemented through
015hpd's Junior police officer program and it started in 1921 and gpos are trained in leadership civic responsibility and help ensure the safety of fellow students as they arrive at and to preference School the law enforcement explorers program also from HPD trains students to use excessive force to break open doors and to use firearms the Guam pilot program um curriculum conceptualizes friendship Harmony and understanding so therefore um you know it's very vague and ambiguous but we are in support um you know because we really want to elevate this resolution um and the intention for safety in our communities thank you thank you for the opportunity to testify is there anyone else we should testify on setting resolution 70 and Sr 63. if my members any questions for the librarian okay if not we'll take a brief
016recess reconvening the joint committees on education and Public Safety and intergovernment intergovernmental and Military affairs the chairs have discussed scr-40 and sr34 and we would like to pass out this Resolute these resolutions with a change and this the change would be requesting the the Honolulu Police Department in conjunction with the Department of Education to establish and operate a junior Police pilot program At Doe high schools any questions on that recommendation if not pass with amendments sharehold side and Senate resolution 34 chairville side with amended Vice chair votesai Senator kanuha all right Senator Richards all right Senator Favela all right five eyes recommendations for psfc recommendation to pass these two resolutions with amendments any discussion we have not Senator elephantiago yes okay thank you on the next resolution Senate concurrent resolution 70 um urging Congress to
017amend the federal copyright law to explicitly protect current lending practices for non-profit online libraries the two chairs have converted would like to pass this measure out as is any discussion we have not Senator elephantiago yes the five members president from Public Safety and Military intergovernmental Affairs and you know lots of lots of presentations thank you and for the committee on education same recommendations here both side Sheriff what's up ended any reservations any members voting with opposition hearing none five members president for thinking that concludes our yeah Bridger good afternoon and welcome to the 3 30 committee on Education meeting today is Monday April 3rd right it is 3 30 and we are in hearing room 229. this meeting including the audio and video remote participants is being streamed live on YouTube you will find links
018to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and on-demand video page of the legislature's website this is a meeting and your and YouTube live stream event will include this 3 30 agenda of 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 today April 3rd at five o'clock P.M in room 229 and a public notice will be posted on the legislature's website 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 for testifier per bill for people participating remotely please remain muted and video disabled until shortly before it is your turn to testify when I call your name
019on Meet 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 to you we start with Senate concurrent resolution 34 and Senate resolution 28 urging the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing public school fire alarm systems foreign stands on its testimony in support of this measure thank you very much for your support but [Music] thank you we have we have a number of schools about 40 that the fire alarm systems are in three stages of being a critical port or affair we have challenges dealing with a provider that that can repair these systems we constantly work with them but it's just a backlog of of being able to repair these On Assignment
020basis systemal services available no services available the neighbor islands are here and how long has this been going on oh some of them are are a while five six years old we have a protocol what is what is called a fire watch protocol that each of the schools uh have a system because the Alarm Systems fail there's a protocol that they follow in case we do have a fire situation at these schools in particular so we have a backup plan primarily it deals with staff if there's a fire and then there's an announcement of PA system that goes out to our classrooms uh asking uh the staff and students to evacuate and if we can manage that fire with our own extinguishing protocols we try to manage it but it concurrently it's a 9-1-1 call
021fire department and police department so you put down the probably be about 68 million dollars to fix so and have you ever had two friends the funds for this yes oh it's a repair and maintenance comes out of the repair maintenance priority the lump sum that you give us so how much money in the past have been allocated to I've got to get that for you senator okay and so at the first looked at alternatives because I would assume this fire alarm system is Antiquated very much so so is that Alternatives that you guys walk down then there's a National Fire standard that uh dictates how we do these alarm systems there's not much options to it but the systems are just old that's a problem there are they're obsolete but is it only here
022or is this Nationwide or what I'm not sure about Nationwide but just getting the services to get that accomplished is is difficult or has been difficult well you would think in this age of digital that we would be able to do an alarm system that wouldn't cost this kind of money but I'm just surprised that the department hasn't been proactive in looking at how to solve this yeah and I think it has to do with the national standards um you know one would think a wireless system would work but it has to home run back to a system at the main office and that system alerts the fire department so if we have to rewire it's all about a home run back to that that box so to speak how do you home run now
023um it's all hardwire yeah I know but if it's not working or if it's not and you have a backup the backup is what it's it's the firewatch using really staff and the audible systems right so you're already not using the what what the standard is that is required when you pull it boxed it Pull Station it it automatically homes runs and goes automatically to the fire department so when you have a a false pool you've got to call the fire department to let them know it's a false alarm if not they will respond it just automatically brings back to them right so you're saying the system is not working if I pull the alarm now at one of the schools is that working in these 40 schools they're not working yeah so if they
024are not working and are you following a policy that is acceptable the National Standard that you're required to follow yes it's a it's a firewalk standard that we comply to both nationally and locally with the fire department okay I'm just like a hard time understanding that the system is is obsolete in your following uh secondary type of standard pitch to me a newest kind of system would probably be better than your alternative right but the secondary standard is something that nationally of schools have also it's a manual system a firewall system basically you have the automated system and the manual system so until we fix these automated systems we we follow the firewatch manual system so it's there any thoughts or any possibilities that something else will come up to the face current automated systems
025what I'm exploring is really to train our old our own people to fix these sending them to the the fire systems that are sold so we can repair it ourselves right now we're waiting on a on a professional or a company to fix the systems that that hasn't been it's I would I would tell you it's not successful at all because we're waiting on on the repairman to repair our stuff I think we have to train our people to do it and no other company um alarm system company like home alarms none of them can do it um I'm not sure Senator but I will check check on that when when I in another life when I was at the convention center we had the same problem you know the fire alarm systems are just
026not at the level of adequacy so you bring in all these other contractors to to try to fix it for you that's not only the audibles but the light systems that all gotta and tested tested and tested and test it all the time so so the fire department have they um they must know that you guys have this issue where they don't have a good solution either no no yeah I think it's a little more technical not not that the firemen are technical but it requires some specialty equipment and when we uh the when the audibles go out and The Strokes go out takes a different kind of skit set wow so in the meantime part there is there uh any thought of using what a poems use there's those types of fire alarms I'm
027I'm not sure Senator the magnitude of of a home alarm system versus a school that has 40 or 50 classrooms maybe a little more complex for a home system to manage well I would think that it's probably better than you know depending on a person running to each building to tell you that oh there's a fire evacuated and it's probably like 20 bucks a pop but if you guys are not really buys it in bulk I'm sure you can get it much yeah my greater concern is is in the evenings or at night when we don't have staff there uh that that a fire occurs that that is highly problematic for us everybody's going to pull them yeah that's where probably hopefully the neighbors will hear it or somebody at the fire engine the fire
028station will hear it be called and it will come correct yeah I mean luck is not a strategy but we've been fairly fortunate at this point that we haven't had a kind of magnitude of fire as you can imagine in in the older schools of the rural areas where most of the buildings are wood becomes highly problematic for us but that's not the preponderance of the buildings that we have the fireline systems are not working yeah I think um though the department should do a little bit more resurgency nationally there is this is an issue and you know are there other Solutions I will tell you I have signed off on about six or seven work orders to fix the system so it's not like it's we're not proceeding it's just we can't get a
029contractor to do 30 or 40 tomorrow there's just not enough contractors to do it but we will continue to explore other options thank you thank you um so one of the realize causes that the National Fire Protection Association and Life Safety Code commonly known as NFPA 101 requires school to have functioning fire alarm systems and so if you don't have a functioning fire alarm system then what because they find are you folks put on probation what happens nothing I'm not I can't give you an answer for that right now Senator but I will I will find out okay because it says you're the king Intermediate School in cardio has not had a working fire alarm system for seven years konawaena Elementary School that auto service for two years so it sounds as if yeah this
030is something that has just been ignored and I can I can understand having the problems but the fact that I don't know that you guys are taking a really proactive if you're not the king of what they're doing across the country Across the Nation seeing what other Alternatives they are it seems like you know well we're trying to fix them we really can't and we're doing it but that's what it sounds like yeah I I can appreciate that now you know so I will tell you we're working hard at it we just haven't had the kind of success that we need to fix all these but if you're not looking at it I'm sorry you're not looking at it across the country I'm not looking at Alternatives and you're not working hard at it you're
031just working out but then whatever you have without thinking outside the box and thinking okay we can't get people to do it then what's our alternative what are the observatives if you had listed all the different Alternatives you guys are working on then that would be something else but you're not well I'm not aware of it but let me get back to you on it although the efforts we've put forward on this thank you see it anymore but we used to have that triangle ping Terry you ring on but then everybody comes off kids yeah I would say it's a pretty effective too it was a smaller school not 3 200 kids at Campbell but you know that was effective for the little kids just want to bring that up yes you're you're absolutely right
032I actually saw one at Kilauea Elementary School a couple weeks ago and yeah okay thank you okay anyone else here is n't actually why you never sign up to testify I have to manage like 500 games so yeah so do we fight yeah I'm just saying that in the future if you get really busy we may not be able to call you so okay I will send in a testimony after okay okay that's good that's good um okay so about to introduce yourself yes Angela Melody young testifying on behalf of cares um in strong support um because of some of the ongoing conversation um I just want to provide comments um that there was an incident that happened at its school but this is relevant because you can kind of see the complications of figuring
033out the solutions for this um so in 27 in July 2017 an incident happened at Kapahulu um and it was the most destructive um fire in Hawaii history and then the city ordinances were signed into law and then DPP has to get involved so since that time um they still have not implemented Life Safety assessments for the fire infrastructure within um condos and high rises so you can see that since 2017 till now that's five years so this sort of process to navigate the resources to implement safe Fire Equipment um it takes a long time and perhaps um CPP can be consulted because um Department of planning and permitting from the city okay yeah and then also because the city um passed a lot of ordinances for the fire code um so um that could
034be something to look at for implementing um when implementing at schools thank you thank you for the opportunity testified moving on to scr56 requesting the Board of Education to review various programs and subject matter areas for implementation of public schools we have only one person scheduled to testify dance in Honda Vice chairman members of us an education committee my name is Danson Honda and I am tested fighting in support of Senate Club current resolution 56. my passion for financial literacy which is one of the things identified in this resolution began due to overcoming personal finance for struggles and eventually becoming a homeowner which I credit to financial literacy beginning last year I testified at Board of Education meetings urging the board to take action during this process I was to learn about the history of
035previous financial literacy efforts since 2003 60 pieces of financial literacy legislation were introduced in A legislature some of them passed which designated April as financial literacy month it established two financial literacy task forces and it has repeatedly urged action I read through all 60 pieces of this legislation including the center current resolution that you introduced in 2021 sir godani and I am inspired that over the course of two decades and unfortunately two recessions that all these people independently came to the same conclusion that financial literacy is essential and should be taught in school recently I had a pleasure of meeting with assistant superintendent Terry usijima from the doe and Alison krunchige executive director of the Boe and we discussed and agreed that the board would be the best authority to implement a graduation requirement but
036we also talked about the need for the legislature to provide funding to ensure a successful implementation and I'm hoping that by Bridging the communication gap between the legislature the doe and the poe that I can help make this idea finally turn into a reality thank you for your consideration and some members questions yes based on everything you've said and I've been here through all of it and they haven't done it yet um and unfortunately there were many resolutions prior and without action taken um so as I mentioned in 2021 Senate conference resolution 152 it urged to Boe ndoe to coordinate with bcca to implement a financial literacy graduation requirement I actually contacted dcca and they said that they had and they have emails showing that they reached out to the doe and they did it
037they didn't get a response um yeah I I don't I don't think and and I talked to organizations as a Next Generation personal finance and they actually offered a grant for the doe to implement it and they they stood it into it so unfortunately I don't film this alone would be enough to urge action thank you thank you yes thank you chair explain your passion for this okay yeah um so I I was born and raised in Hawaii um I grew up in a single income family of four and um for the first 20 years of my life um I didn't know what it was like to sleep on an actual bed um I I had to sleep on the living room floor on a phone that matches because that's all that my family could
038afford um and I I basically grew up with the idea that you know by working hard going to school getting good grades going to college that you know that was the key to success right and that's something that many people believe to um um but you know um and and in high school I became involved in student government and I began interacting with people from all walks of life and you know I I realized that you know a lot of people who do these things that they still end up struggling in life and in many ways I became disillusioned with our education system right um and and and you know my I began focusing more on what was going on outside of school and I was going on inside the school right and then my
039my grade slipped and you know my my senior year of high school um you know I was I was you know in in a mess right um I actually didn't work at high school graduation um I had to take a remedial course over the summer because um I didn't pass one of my classes right so according to our education system I was a failure um you know despite you know having accolades such as being a student member of the board and whatnot right but according um grade wise I was a failure um well I I was able to get into college but about halfway through I was in a financial mess um you know I find that really interested in that you know students who have no Financial knowledge can take out student loans open
040credit cards right um yeah so um you know I had five figures and student learned that about the Maxwell credit card and that that forced me to learn about my finances and that really opened up my eyes and realized that this was a key component missing from our education system right and learning to manage finances um and although I wasn't making money yet I had established a solid Financial understanding right I graduated college in 2019 um but by the time I started looking for a job in 2020 that's when covert hit right so I went through all that hassle getting my college degree and nobody wanted to hire me um um so but but one important thing I learned from financial literacy is that um it's it's not wise to rely on one source of
041income and when you know times change right um so so while while most of the world was still struggling trying to figure out what was going on um I always problem solving I always identifying opportunities that were available during the pandemic and I'm very proud to say that just two years later um since the beginning of covert I became a homeowner and and I did that by working as a food delivery driver about things or nobody right but but that's because of the financial education I learned how to identify opportunities right during difficult times how do you grow your money right and and and that's became that's made me really passionate about helping people to have that Financial knowledge right I think our education system right now is really a singular track I'm giving people
042so you know for college readiness right but you know that that's not the path that many people are taking or or should take right um I I was uh I was in student government in college so I was a student body Treasurer and and honestly I don't think a lot of people who should have been there like just financially speaking I wasn't A wise choice right so um yeah I yeah this this is everything's made me very passionate about this and I I'm really trying to figure out despite all these previous efforts that we didn't make it happen I'm trying to figure out what is the key to making it happen and and that's what brought me here today thank you thank you appreciate that that passion obviously comes through thank you thank you senator
043yes thank you perfect thank you thank you so much terrifying you know I think we agree with you we've been chair and I and our members have been trying to we've had a number of bills that we've tried to pass and adopt and it goes over to the house on this is financial literacy but you're right you know I I bring up the fact that resilient to early college early Ed but we're not teaching the things that the kids need to learn in high school they don't know how to interview for a job so the colleges are finding out that they get a degree and they go into the workplace and they can't get the job because they they don't have interview skills they don't have social skills so our schools need to get back
044to the basic home economics you know kids can't even sew a button boys can't support to hug their path my son brings me as fast as love a budget but is those kinds of practical things that you need to learn besides becoming book smart and and college ready you're not ready for life so we need the Board of Education to understand that and I'm not sure how we do that so thank you for bringing it up and don't give up because thank you I'll keep the level as well thank you so much just just um a point of interesting a point eventually is that the real question is so if you do a course with financial literacy then what do you give up what curriculum do you give up because there are so many hours
045in the days yes that's right classes in a day right yeah so um if it makes any of us feel any better this is an issue that the board is now looking at and they are going to have my understanding and I wish your boss was here they are going to form a committee to to look at this issue and the curriculum and grad requirements so that's very good and although I'm concerned that you know it's always late to the gamers about 17 States or so that have a financial literacy graduation requirement um so while that's bad um I guess the good thing to come out of it is that there's a lot of Precedence there's a lot of things that we can learn from and how these 17 States implemented it and you're right
046um you know some states they did take away you know a credit to add a credit others have found ways to creatively put it into the curriculum um the way I think that it would work best in Hawaii is through the social studies elective credit um in there I know the department was also interested in making it part of the personal transition plan requirement and so there are different ways to make this happen without making a sacrifice in other areas yeah and and we can learn from the president set by other states thank you thank you really appreciate it and I'll give a plug to Waipahu High School um and uh former principal kitayashi that we had well actually it wasn't him it was established before he came on they actually have a credit union
047and all their school girls run by the students and that really teaches financial literacy and helping the students who participate as well as their parents who have are participating in the credit union on stock market follow stocks and so that's how I learned about the invest in the stock market I guess that was before my time because it wasn't yeah okay moving on to scr 161 at Senate resolution 187 requesting the Department of Education to rename noelani Elementary School to President Barack Obama noelani Elementary School in honor of United States President Barack Obama and to testify just come on the afternoon chair Vice chair members of the committee thank you very much the renaming of a school goes through process through its School Community Council it's a very rigorous program uh just recently this year
048we did a name change for uh princess Ruth formerly known as Central so it went through its process and the school was renamed through the school Community Council and it moves up to the superintendent and to the board for final approval so the process is there we suggest that we exercise that process and any name change in the schools thank you members questions you know I I seen a resolution or maybe even a bill I'm going around I don't know that's it but my concern is um to the native Hawaiian community that roads buildings freeways airports everything that has a significant name foreign [Music] Elementary School before we even consider having a resolution like this we should consider what was the actual what was the name actually chosen because we change McKinley High School from
049what it says hello High School something like that but we kind of keep changing names because of a president or somebody that having no significance to the area or the district because as far as I concerned he had a chance to have something named after him but he decided not to bring the library to Hawaii and the income and the economic development they could have he chose to put it where his wife lives so he had a chance and I know he's not asking for his name but if that's the case it should allow me for a library and the stuff that they said they want an honoring of him but I don't think we should change the school name and as we find out what is the significant change of the name before we
050even considered going to that route because you're going to have a position guys barbarians so these are the things that they should change they should check before they putting in a resolution to change their name to somebody else that already has a name for a school it's not a new school but whatever to Kapolei middle it's called Kapolei middle then they realize it's not in Kapolei it's another Beach so they had to change them to Honolulu you see what I mean because they never check of the region and significance of the region of one of the part of that's all that's just my comment sorry thank you senator thank you we have Andrew Crosslands written testimony in opposition Cheryl B written testimony and opposition anyone else here wishing to testifying this measures at one minute
051starting now imagine with Melody young testifying on behalf of cares and strong support um Obama served as the 44th President of the U.S a history is the American story values from the Heartland and middle class upbringing and a strong family hard work and education as a means of getting ahead and the conviction that is life so blessed should be lived in helping others um when Obama was elected president he there was no other African-American uh presidents to be in the office um the framers of the Constitution always hope that our leadership should be limited to should not be limited to Americans of wealth or um to those of privilege subject to the prejudices of their time many of them owned slaves most of them would not have foreseen an African-American president um and you know
052um in 1988 Obama went to law school and then he joined a small Law Firm specializing in civil rights um and um yes he coordinated with churches to improve housing conditions and to set up job training programs in the community um and therefore we are in support of the resolution thank you for the opportunity to testify questions foreign to scr190 and sr174 requesting the Department of Education to develop a strategic plan to meet the locally sourced food goals establish an acts 175 and 176 session laws are publicly justify Michael monicato initiative good afternoon Cherokee County Vice chair kid members of the committee Michael municata here on behalf of the Oklahoma initiative we'll stand on our testimony in support of this I just want to highlight a couple points share if I may I know we're
053running low on time but uh you know we we all have the the right uh mentality to try to reach our goal of getting more local food into our school meal system it's a gargantuan Taps it really is but this legislative body has sent a signal to the state of Hawaii that we're we're definitely interested in getting there 30 by 20 30 50 by 2050. um it's a great goal to have and now it's just a matter of how we get there I think what this resolution tries to do is to establish some of the the items that might be helpful in getting there um I should teach a strategic plan would be very helpful it would start to show our Direction on where we're going as a state how we're going to try to
054get more Farmers involved how we're going to start to implement menu development how we're going to start to work with communities to try to get more of this food here to serve our local Kiki throughout our school system so we're very supportive of the Strategic plan and we're also supportive of getting a resource in the in the coordinator position to really dedicate the time and energy to looking at this and we understand that Doe is tasked with quite a few you other priorities across our state so really having some dedicated resource and a strategic plan would be helpful just real briefly Our Testimony has quite a bit of things within it it's it's for consideration chair um of what we would think a strategic plan might entail some of the details that might be helpful
055should you consider amending this resolution to add that in thank you very much chair thank you member's questions moving on Brian Miyamoto written testimony and support and Randall tanako written testimony and opposition I guess he's going to speak thank you to everybody's chair um we we fully intend to have a operational and a strategic plan um there's a whole lot of elements that go into this not only from uh the production kitchen but how we work with our Farmers distribution redistribution to our schools when the product's complete menu selection development there's a whole lot of parts to it but we fully intend to to have a a plan as part of our our financial model to make this work so thank you very much for your time thank you members questions yeah thank you chair
056um I'm very passionate about this one and you and I have top story you are the you meaning Geo is the largest restaurant in the state now and um you just made the comment that you will be having a plan coming forward for agriculture as a whole to understand that plan you know we proverbially have the chicken or the egg syndrome and I appreciate all the fun there meaning uh agriculture doesn't know what direction to go unless we have an idea of what direction you guys want to and this is a resolution to push for that plan for Testimony before there's been of support of that plan because that also is a plan not just for you guys but for agriculture as a whole this is why I am encouraging this not to push you
057hard to do something that you're not going to be doing because you just admitted you're going to be doing it but this helps agriculture plan because if you say uh we have 20 30 guideline to get to but it's going to take years to ramp up to get it there and agriculture needs to know what you guys are thinking publicly so then they can respond and that's why it's so important to get a plan can you please comment on that yeah you know um Senator it's it's never the why it's the how is the tough part of of this plan and I agree with you because if we don't partner with the former the farmers they can't align products that they provide to us so I could be out there with all of these these
058ideas but the farmer is a Cornerstone on how we're gonna get to these goals they have to produce for what uh for what we need and what kinds of food which is the other Cornerstone is our menu development because if our menu development is not aligned with what the farmers can produce then we've got that dysfunction the volume production coming out of the Central Kitchen uh is is critical because the once again the farmers have to produce and they should know what we want them to produce without that we've got this disconnect correct type and then finally the the the issue that we we have to watch carefully is Waste Management we could produce and I think Senator Kimmy noted this at another hearing and I talked about oranges right we 1.5 million pounds of
059oranges uh that we consume on Maui but most of the stuff is trashed so once again the alignment now we are we going to produce things on the plate that is consumed that reduces our waste so all of that those those cornerstones are critical to how we're going to get there and like I said it's not the the why it's the how we do that correct and so in my mind I see this as a living document that you're working on in concert with agriculture but if we don't have something to work off of we're both flying blinds so that's why I'm pushing so hard and you know it you should note that our objective is to maximize what the farmers produce if you can have a grade eight tomato that belongs at Royce and
060a great big tomato that we should be making tomato sauce out of and maximize the revenue for the farm so that's the the key to this when we roll with this yeah and I agree with that but without a plan you're not doing it so that's why you will have a plan I don't think the board's gonna let me go too far down the road without a plan that's okay because I won't let you go thank you chair thank you um and just to know members that there is at 175 which was passed in 2021 which requires the DOE to have 30 percent of food surgery this is immobile in public schools by local be local by 2030 and for them to submit a plan to the legislature each regular session beginning 2022 they have
061it's here thank you man thank you the last item on our agenda is scr 210 and sr150 requesting the Board of Education to report on ways to increase access to extend learning opportunities or course credits for non-traditional and external learning experiences um Justified David miyashiro Way kids can Aloha chair if you don't even Vice chair Camden members of this committee thank you for hearing scr 210 Sr 150 Hawaii kids can stand on our written testimony and strong supported this resolution with a few quick notes so imagine that you are in the greatest School in the world what would you see most likely an abundance of opportunities so that learning can be completely personalized for each student also world-class teachers with overflowing wisdom knowledge and lived experience lastly the learning students did would give back to
062the surrounding Community well I'm happy to share that all these elements exist in Hawaii right now with the classroom serving as a community as the community serving as a classroom through non-profits employers and local networks there is literally no limit this serves priorities like real world learning and financial literacy we talk about a teacher shortage but we actually have abundant kumu in the community please move this resolution forward thank you members questions or by Elizabeth Robinson is anyone else here wishing to just require this measure smoothly thank you I don't know did you guys have this one I don't see that the board has no testimony I also have a written testimony and support by Aaron Mendelson a public school teacher okay if you're to that thank you chair race chair Angela Melody young testifying
063on behalf of cares against strong support um the Alternative Learning Program Branch provides Statewide support to schools and districts for the development maintenance and enhancement of the Alternative Learning programs services and support for at prop for students um the Alp Branch provides um services such as support to schools to network with other professionals and create professional Learning Community opportunities and it coordinates and facilitates the state alpss guidance committee and the leadership work group and it also provides Technical and professional support to the school and complex area leadership um so alpss strives to provide supportive and nurturing environments that help students to grow Thrive and to rise above adversity um and it also improves academic competencies and enables them to meet the hydro adopted state standards and requirements and within the alpss setting Innovative instructional strategies
064are applied to students in their learning um so and also it develops appropriate behaviors and social emotional um developments within the students and provides um support for After High School and prepares them for um post Forbes College um so thank you for the opportunity to testify very strong support foreign education so um scr34 and sr28 we're amending it to urge the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing public school fire alarm systems as well as looking into acceptable alternatives recommendation of the chair is to Transit with amendments chair bull sorry cheerful time many members present oppositional nuns thank you for scr56 requesting the Board of Education to review various programs and subject matter areas for implementation in public schools recommendation of the chair is surpassed as is shareholds are how's this that's
065it I could have any numbers without um thank you for scr 161 and sr187 requesting the Department of Education to rename noelani Elementary School to President Barack Obama on noelani Elementary School in honor of U.S president Barack Obama the recommendation of the chair is going to defer this as this is a matter of the school Community Council for scr190 Sr 174 requesting the Department of Education to develop a strategic plan to meet the locally sourced food goals established in Acts 175 176 session laws of Hawaii 2021 recommendation of the chairs to also defer this as again this is uh looked at in app 175 requiring reports already for scr 210 and Sr 150 requesting the Board of Education to report on ways to increase access to Extended Learning opportunities or course credits for non-traditional external
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