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form of personnel, equipment, materials, supplies and service contracts; (4) Matching federal, state or private grants-in-aid individually or in any combination to develop or restore public property to a safe and useable condition. (5) Paying for operational expenses of the county after a disaster or emergency when the county is unable to realize revenue at sufficient levels due to the disaster or emergency; (6) Paying for acquisition of property to mitigate future potential disasters or emergencies; and (7) Paying for administrative expenses, which shall not exceed five percent except as indicated in (5) above. For the purposes of this section, administrative expenses are defined as staff or contracted salaries and related fringe benefits. If the county should receive reimbursement of funds for money advanced by the disaster and emergency fund, those funds shall be deposited into the disaster and emergency fund. The director of finance shall administer the disaster and emergency fund, which shall include investment of the fund." Section 2. 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 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 without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this charter proposal are declared to be severable. Section 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate. 29