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SECTION 36. Article XIII, section 13-19, of the Charter of the County of Hawaii (2024 Edition), is amended to read as follows: "Section 13-19. Annual Reports. Not later than ninety days after the close of the fiscal year, each agency of the county shall make an annual written report of its activities to the [Maye ] county manager in such form and under such rules as the [way-ef] county manager may prescribe. Not later than one hundred twenty days after the close of the fiscal year, the [Maye J county manage shall publish an annual report concerning the activities of all agencies of the county. A copy of such report shall be filed in the office of the county clerk." SECTION 37. Article XIII, section 13-22, of the Charter of the County of Hawaii (2024 Edition), is amended to read as follows: "Section 13-22. Coordination of Work. The [wayef] county manager shall devise a practical and working basis for the cooperation and coordination of work by the various agencies to eliminate duplication and overlapping of functions, and such agencies shall, so far as practicable, cooperate with each other in the use of employees, land, building, quarters, facilities and equipment. The head of any agency may empower or require an employee of another agency, subject to the consent of the head of such other agency, to perform any duty which might be required of the employees of that agency. Whenever in this charter power is vested in an agency to inspect, examine or secure data or information or to procure assistance from any other agency, a duty is hereby imposed upon the agency upon which demand is made to render such power effective." SECTION 38. Article XVI of the Charter of the County of Hawaii (2024 Edition) is amended by adding a section to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows: "Section 16-13. Acting County Manager. The mayor shall have the authority to appoint an acting county manager, who shall exercise all the powers and duties of the office of county manager, until the council confirms the first county manager in accordance with Section 6-1 2 " SECTION 39. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawaii, the revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring. 15