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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII Msg. as: BILL NO. 11 ORDINANCE NO. 01 16 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2 (ADMINISTRATION), ARTICLE 25 (APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS), OF THE HAWAI°I COUNTY CODE 1983 (1995 EDITION), AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR AWARDING GRANTS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Purpose The Council finds it necessary to streamline its annual evaluation process of applications submitted by nonprofit orgamzations to allow for discretionary site visitations by council members and designated staff In instances where an incumbent grant recipient maintains facilities and operations known to the Council and its appointed staff, the practice of conducting site visitations pnor to the Council's consideration of requested appropnations may be waived by the chair of the appropriate committee SECTION 2. Chapter 2, Article 25, Section 2-139(a) of the Hawaz`i County Code 1983 (1995 Edition), is amended to read as follows "Section 2-139. Procedure for awarding grants. (a) All grants made to a nonprofit organization by the County shall be made in accordance with the following procedure (1) Annually, before November 30, the director shall, for the purpose of soliciting applications, establish a sum of at least $900,000 to be avazlable m the ensuing fiscal year for funding requests by nonprofit organizations The director shall publish a notice soliciting applications in two newspapers of general circulation within the County of Hawaz`i by November 30 (2) All applications for grants shall be submitted to the director on or before January 31 preceding the County's fiscal year, which begins on July 1 Applications shall be prepared on forms provided by the director Applications not in conformance with the requirements of the County Code may be reJected (3) The dvector shall submit to the council all qualifying applications for its review and appropnation of funds Site visitations of nonprofit orgamzations submitting complete applications [shall] ~ be conducted by the council and its designated staff, as deemed necessary by the chair of the appropnate committee, after January 31 but pnor to final action on the operating budget by the council [These] ~ site visitations shall be up blicly noticed and conducted in a manner that allows flexible council member participation and designated staff support (4) Upon favorable action by the council to appropnate funds for the grant, the director shall notify agencies of their funding or lack thereof by July 31 and award the grant'in compliance with this article "