2018-2020 Report of the Charter Commission to the County Council

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CA -4, Draft 2: Relating to the Department of Research and Development This proposal would strengthen both the approach of the Department of Research and Development to encourage collaboration with various governmental stakeholders and the department's explicit focus on holistic, interdependent issues. In addition, the proposal would delete a section that is a remnant of the federal formula grant programs established in the 1960s. The Commission finds that advances in grant research and management technologies facilitate the decentralization of the department's functions included in previous Charters. CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: Section 1. Article VI, Chapter 8, Section 6-8.3, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows: "Section 6-8.3. Powers, Duties and Functions. The director of research and development shall: (a) Collect and develop data necessary for managerial and legislative decision- making, and program and policy-making. (b) [Provide staff leadership for] In collaboration and coordination with federal and state agencies as well as the private sector, advance public and private development programs, enterprises and plans, [including economic, social and cultural proposals, which] that enhance and improve the [county community.] county's environmental, cultural, community, and economic sustainability and resilience. [{O Coordinate informational and regulatory knowledge of all federal and state grant in aid participation programs which affect the county.]" Section 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i (2020), the revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring. Section 3. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the electorate. Section 4. Severability. If any provision of this charter proposal, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the charter proposal which can be given effect 12