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REPORT OF THE <br /> COMMITTEE ON FINANCE <br /> <br /> DATE: August 22, 2000 Re: Comm. No. 887/Bill No. 305 <br /> <br /> PLACE: Council Chambers <br /> <br /> TIME: 10:35 A.M. <br /> <br /> Council Chair and Members <br /> <br /> Hawaii County Council <br /> <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred Bill No. 305, reports as follows: <br /> Bill No. 305, transmitted by Council Member Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd, via Communication No. 887, <br /> <br /> dated August 10, 2000, amends Chapter 2, Article 15, of the Hawaii County Code, by adding a new <br /> section relating to the Code of Ethics. <br /> This measure proposes to require the County Council, Mayor, County Department Heads, Members of <br /> <br /> Board and Commissions and employees with regulatory functions, such as building inspectors, to report <br /> <br /> any gifts over $200. To amend the County Code of Ethics to follow the language contained in the State <br /> <br /> Code of Ethics. <br /> Said bill also proposes that a county agency shall not enter into any contracts over $10,000 with <br /> <br /> organizations in which a county official has controlling interest. Exceptions to the proposed law would <br /> <br /> include contracts awarded through a sealed bid process or if the agency notifies the Board of Ethics ten <br /> <br /> days before awazding the contract. <br /> Your Committee, during its discussion of Bill No. 305, made the following amendments: <br /> 1. Page 6, Section 2-91.5(a)(1). "The officer or employee, or spouse or dependent child of <br /> an officer or employee, received directly or indirectly from one source any gift or gifts <br /> valued singly or in the aggregate in excess of [$200.00] 100.00, whether the gift is in the <br /> form of money, service, goods or in any other form." <br /> 2. Page 6, Section 2-91.5(b). "The report shall cover the period from June 1 of the <br /> preceding calendar year through [June 1 ] May 31 of the year of the report." <br /> Your Committee on Finance is in accord with the purposes and intent of Bill No. 305, as amended to <br /> Draft 2, and recommends it pass first reading. <br /> smc <br /> Hues rvoES a&s ex Respectfully submitted <br /> CHUNG X <br /> ELARIONOFe x COMMITTEE ON FINANCE <br /> JACOBSON X <br /> LEITHEAD-TODD X <br /> PISICCHIO X <br /> SMITH X <br /> TvLER x AARON S.Y. CHUNG, CHAIR <br /> YAGONG X FC REPORT NO. 326 <br /> ARAKAKt, e.o.n~r. ADOPTED: <br /> <br />