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Proposal No. 3: RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND <br />DEVELOPMENT <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I: <br /> <br />Section 1. Article VI, Chapter 8, Section 6-8.3, of the Hawai‘i County Charter <br />(2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows: <br /> <br />“Section 6-8.3. Powers, Duties and Functions. <br /> The director of research and development shall: <br />(a) Collect and develop data necessary for managerial and legislative decision- <br />making, and program and policy-making. <br />(b) \[Provide staff leadership for\] In collaboration and coordination with federal <br />and state agencies as well as the private sector, advance public and private <br />development programs, enterprises and plans, \[including economic, social <br />and cultural proposals, which\] that enhance and improve the \[county <br />community.\] county’s environmental, cultural, community, and economic <br />sustainability and resilience. <br />\[(c) Coordinate informational and regulatory knowledge of all federal and state <br />grant-in-aid participation programs which affect the county.\]” <br /> <br /> <br />Section 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken <br />through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these <br />charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai‘i (2020), the revisor <br />need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring. <br /> <br />Section 3. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and <br />section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the <br />electorate. <br /> <br />Section 4. Severability. If any provision of this charter proposal, or the <br />application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not <br />affect other provisions or applications of the charter proposal which can be given effect <br />without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this charter <br />proposal are declared to be severable. <br /> <br />Section 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br /> <br />