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DRAFT BALLOT LANGUAGE <br />FOR PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENTS <br />To be Adopted by the 2018-2020 Hawaii County Charter Commission <br />(Charter Amendment proposal numbers in parentheses included for information in this draft; <br />final ballot language document will not include this information.) <br />PROPOSAL #1 (CA-1, 5, 14, 21, 22, 25) <br />RELATING TO TECHNICAL, LINGUISTIC, AND GRAMMATICAL REVISIONSOF <br />THE CHARTER: Shall the Charter of the County of Hawaiibe amended by making <br />various technical, linguistic, and grammatical revisions throughout the Charter? <br />PROPOSAL #2 (CA-2) <br />RELATING TO COUNCIL MEETING LOCATIONS: Shall the Charter of the County of <br />Hawaiibe amended to require that the Hawai‘i County Council hold an equal number of <br />its regularly scheduled meetings in East Hawai‘i and West Hawai‘i? <br />PROPOSAL #3 (CA-4) <br />RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Shall <br />the Charter of the County of Hawaii be amended by clarifying the Department of <br />Research and Development’s powers, duties, and functions? <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PROPOSAL #4 (CA-6) <br />RELATING TO AUTHORITY OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONS: Shall the <br />Charter of the County of Hawaii be amended to authorize the Police Commission to <br />discipline the Police Chief and the Fire Commissions to discipline the Fire Chief? <br />PROPOSAL #5 (CA-8) <br />RELATING TO TERMS OF COUNCIL MEMBERS: Shall the Charter of the County <br />of Hawaiibe amended to change the terms of office for Council Members to four years <br />from the current two years,starting with the 2022 County Council term, with no current <br />member serving more than eight consecutive years? <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />