Comm No 0053.02 - Ad Hoc Committee Report re Ballot Questions

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Proposal No. 8: RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I: Section 1. Article VI, Chapter 4, Section 6-4.4, of the Hawai‘i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows: “Section 6-4.4.Powers, Duties, and Functions. The director of information technology shall: (a) Operate the central data processing system, and coordinate and oversee the operations of departmental data processing systems, except for those systems maintained by the department of water supply\[.\], the office of the prosecuting attorney and the police department. (b) Provide technical expertise in data processing and telecommunication to applicable departments and agencies of the county. (c) Assist in the development of management information. (d) Advise the mayor on matters relating to data processing and telecommunication. (e) Perform such other duties as may be required by law.” 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 Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through.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 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. 19