STAND. COM. REP. NO.  926

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1177

      S.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1177, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the Works of Art Special Fund for four full-time equivalent positions in the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts.  These new positions are established within the Foundation and funded through a Foundation special fund in response to the Auditor's findings in Report No. 14-11, that the Foundation is unable to adequately fulfil its mission and manage its assets, both financial and artistic, due partly to insufficient staff and insufficient institutional expertise.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1177, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair