REP PWIRC 026A 08/04/2009 2008-2010

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"SECTION 3 Chapter 21, article 2, sectIOn 21-5, Hawm'l County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended) I; amended by amending subsectIOn (a) to read a; follows (d) Owners of all dwellIngs, bUlldmgs, or properties used tor human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purposes, which are accessible to a sewer are reqUired at their expense to connect directly with the public sewer wlthm one hundred eighty days after date of official notice Tents or other Similar structures u~ed tor temporary occupancy during con;tructIon of permanent dwelling umts, when allowed under Hawm'l County Code section 5-1.08, sub;ectlOn (a), exceptIOn (19), are exempt trom the Provl'lons of this ~ubsectIon " At Its meetmg of July 7, 2009, Your Committee recommended the passage of Bill 103 on tirst readmg Items from all committee agendas lor July 7, 2009 are bemg put up lor re-vote due to ISSUCS of legality The remammg hl~tory and ml()rmatIon regarding thl; measure IS contamed wlthm the origmal Public Works and Intergovernmental Relation; Committee Report 26, dated July 7, 2009 At ItS meetmg of August 4, 2009, Committee Chair Brenda J Ford relinqUished her scat to Vice Chalf Kelly Greenwell m order to diSCUSS and propose an amendment to the bIll Ms Ford proposed a tloor amendment via CommumcatIon 4132 dated July 27. 2009 restnctmg the use of tents as temporary reSidence durmg construction of a permanent reSidence to the geographical dlstnct of Puna It also proVided that the ordmance be on a tnal baSIS for three years begmning With the etfectIve date of the ordmance, to allow time tor the department to obtam and summanze the posItive and negative re;ults of the tnal and prepare a report to the county councIl. Furthermore, Ms Ford commented that her survey returned 122 responses from Kona of which 67% was agam;t proposed Bill 103 ThiS slgmficantly Impacted her deCISion to mtroduce the proposed tloor amendment Despite the lower number of responses outSide of Kona dlstnct, Ms Ford addcd Puna had 21 responses of which 67% was m support and 33% agamst thiS proposed bill Your Committee members discussed and commented on the proposcd amendmcnt which wa; unanimously carned At thc suggestion ofMr. Yoshimoto, Ms Ford moved tor a secondary amendmcnt to c1anfy the language by msertmg the words "contamed m SectIOn 19" m the tirst sentence of the last paragraph of exception (19) The secondary amendmcnt wa; secondcd by Ms Nacolc and unammously carned CounCil Member Dommlc Yagong commented on hiS recent dISCU%IOn with hiS commumty which re~ulted m a unammous oppositIOn of this proposed bill Furthermore, Mr Yagong also addrcsscd concern with Implementmg a tnal basis as It Will be a difficult task lor thc counCil to deCide its fate dt the cnd of three years PWIRC Rept No 26 (A)