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(2) The capital improvements pending or proposed for the ensuing six fiscal years, together with the estimated cost of each improvement and the proposed method of financing it. (3) Such other information as the council or mayor may request. (c) After the public hearing on the biennial capital budget, and after the submission of the amendments to the budget, the county council may adopt the capital budget as amended with or without further amendment. First reading shall be after May 5[.] of each odd -numbered year. In amending, the council shall request and consider, but need not follow, the recommendations of the mayor as to the proposed amendment. (d) The council shall adopt the biennial capital budget on or before June 30[.] of each odd -numbered year. If it fails to do so, the amended capital budget submitted by the mayor shall be deemed adopted by the council as the capital budget for the ensuing two fiscal [yeas] years. The adopted capital budget shall be in effect on and after the first day of the first fiscal year[..-] of the biennium. (e) At any time during the [fisea}year-,] biennium, the council, by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the entire membership, may amend the capital budget for that [yeas.] biennium. In amending, the council shall request and consider, but need not follow, the recommendations of the mayor as to the proposed amendment." SECTION 13. Article X, section 10-7, of the Charter of the County of Hawaii (2024 Edition) is amended to read as follows: "Section 10-7. Budgets: Public Records. Three copies of the biennial operating budget and [the] capital budget as adopted shall be certified by the mayor and the clerk of the county council. One of these copies shall be filed in the office of the mayor and one each in the offices of the director of finance and the director of planning. The biennial operating budget and capital budget shall be made available to the county agencies and to interested persons, upon such conditions as the council may determine." SECTION 14. Article X, section 10-10, of the Charter of the County of Hawaii (2024 Edition) is amended to read as follows: "Section 10-10. Lapse of Appropriations. General appropriations, except an appropriation for a capital expenditure, shall lapse at the close of the [4 ] biennium to the extent that the same has not been expended or encumbered. An appropriation for a capital expenditure that is not encumbered shall lapse at the end of two fiscal years following the fiscal year that the appropriation was made."