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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />RESOLUTION NO. <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />120 09 <br />A RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE RULES OF PROCEDURE AND ORGANIZATION <br />OF THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII. <br />WHEREAS, the Rules of Procedure and Organization of the Council of the County of <br />Hawai `i ("the Rules") governs the affairs of the council; and <br />WHEREAS, the Rules was adopted by the current council via Resolution No. 04-09 on <br />December, 1, 2008; and <br />WHEREAS, Rule No. 24, subsection (e), requires any bill or resolution up for final <br />reading that is amended be held over to the next regular meeting, with the exception of the <br />annual budget bill and those amendments that correct manifest clerical or typographical errors in <br />numbering, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and gender terms, provided further <br />that any correction does not alter the meaning or effect of the bill or resolution so amended; and <br />WHEREAS, the Office of Information Practices issued Opinion No. 01-06, dated <br />December 31, 2001, stating in part that Hawaii Revised Statutes, chapter 92, otherwise known <br />as the "Sunshine Law," would not prohibit a board from proposing major amendments to a <br />proposal after hearing public testimony on the item, and then proceeding to adopt the amended <br />proposal without reopening public testimony so long as all public testimony, deliberation, and <br />decision making all took place during the same meeting; and <br />WHEREAS, the council wishes to amend the Rules by amending Rule No. 24, Bills and <br />Resolutions, by deleting subsection (e) in its entirety; and <br />WHEREAS, the council finds that this amendment will provide for a more efficient and <br />effective means of procedure for the legislative branch of the County of Hawaii, and that such <br />amendment is in accord with the findings and position of the Office of Information Practices, as <br />issued in Opinion No. 01-06; and <br />WHEREAS, this proposed amendment to Rule No. 24, Bills and Resolutions, subsection <br />(e) is contained within the attached document labeled "Exhibit A" and indicated by Ramseyer <br />format, whereby material to be deleted is bracketed and stricken through; now, therefore, <br />BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII, that the <br />Rules of Procedure and Organization of the Council of the County of Hawaii is hereby amended <br />by the deletion of subsection (e) of Rule No. 24, as indicated by the attached document labeled <br />"Exhibit A"; and <br />