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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Thereafter, the procedural requirements for the supplemental petition shall be the same as <br /> that for the original petition. <br /> <br /> (m) If a majority of the committee does not choose to amend a petition or collect additional <br /> signatures, the clerk shall present the certificate to the county council at the first council <br /> meeting where it can be legally agendized. A petition is approved for consideration <br /> through council action upon the clerk's certificate of sufficiency. <br /> <br /> <br /> (n) The clerk shall present the certificate to the council at the earliest meeting at which the <br /> certificate can be legally agendized. The council shall review the latest clerk's <br /> certificate, upon the committee's request, and shall approve or reject the certificate or <br /> may substitute its own determination of sufficiency of the petition by resolution. The <br /> review actions of the council shall be final but shall not preclude the filing of a new <br /> petition for the same purposes. <br /> <br /> (o) The council shall proceed immediately to consider an initiative or referendum petition <br /> which has been determined sufficient in accordance with the provisions of this article. If <br /> an initiative petition is concerned, the ordinance it proposes shall at once be introduced <br /> subject to the procedures required for ordinances under this charter; however, not more <br /> than sixty days shall elapse between the time of first reading of the initiative proposal as a <br /> bill and completion of consideration to adopt, amend, or reject the same. If a referendum <br /> petition is concerned, the ordinance to which that petition is directed shall be <br /> reconsidered by the council; and not later than thirty days after the date on which the <br /> petition was determined sufficient, the council shall by resolution repeal or sustain the <br /> ordinance. <br /> <br /> (p) If the council fails to adopt an initiative proposal or adopts a proposal with an amendment <br /> unfavorable to a majority of the committee, or if the council fails to repeal an ordinance <br /> reconsidered pursuant to a referendum petition, the clerk shall submit the final language <br /> approved by the petitioner's committee with its appropriate ballot title and ballot <br /> language to the voters of the county at the next general election. The ballot for such <br /> measures shall contain the final ballot summary and shall have below the ballot title <br /> designated spaces in which to mark the ballot FOR or AGAINST the measure. <br /> <br /> <br /> (q) The clerk shall publish the ballot title, ballot question, ballot summary and arguments for <br /> and against the measure in the Sunday paper of two Hawaii Island daily papers with the <br /> largest circulation, for the three Sundays preceding the election. The committee shall be <br /> given the opportunity to write the argument in favor of the measure. If a group of five <br /> qualified voters of Hawaii County give notice to the clerk that they wish to write the <br /> arguments against the measure, the clerk shall publish their arguments. Both sets of <br /> arguments shall be published in the same papers, on the same page, on the same days, <br /> utilizing the same size print. The names and addresses of the committee and the opposing <br /> group as they appear on the general county register for the County of Hawaii shall <br /> appear in the publication. <br /> <br /> <br /> 4 <br />