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�.V OF pew COUNTY OF HAWAII •_ STATE OF HAWAII (� M MOW i�•� BILL NO. 249 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 10-5 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER (2010 EDITION), TO SPECIFY THAT EITHER THE MAYOR OR THE COUNTY COUNCIL MAY INITIATE AMENDMENTS TO THE ADOPTED OPERATING BUDGET OF THE COUNTY DURING THE FISCAL YEAR. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to initiate an amendment to the Hawaii County Charter (2010 Edition) to specifically permit the Mayor or the County Council to initiate amendments to the County's operating budget during the fiscal year. Currently, no specific language exists in the Charter that permits or prohibits action in this regard. SECTION 2. Article X, section 10-5 of the Hawaii County Charter (2010 Edition) is amended to read as follows: "Section 10-5. Operating Budget: Council Action. After the public hearing, and after the submission of the amendments to the operating budget and to the capital budget, the county council may adopt the operating budget as amended with or without further amendments. First reading shall be after May 5. In amending, it may add new items or increase items in the operating budget. It may decrease or delete items, excepting appropriations required by law and appropriations for debt service. But in all cases the estimated revenues for the ensuing year shall be at least equal in amount to the proposed expenditures. The council shall adopt the operating budget on or before June 30. If it fails to do so, the operating budget as submitted and as amended by the mayor shall be deemed adopted by the council as the operating budget for the ensuing fiscal year. If the mayor disapproves of the bill adopting the operating budget or of any part thereof, the mayor shall return the bill or the portions vetoed with a written statement of objections to the clerk for further council action within ten calendar days of receipt of the bill. The adopted operating budget shall be in effect on and after the first day of the fiscal year to which it applies. At the request of the mayor, at any time during the fiscal year, the council, by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of its entire membership, may amend the operating budget for that ,year. The council may initiate amendments to the adopted operating budget during the fiscal year, provided any such amendment shall be by ordinance adopted by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its entire membership, and further provided that the council shall request and consider the recommendations of the mayor as to the proposed amendment."