Comm No 0058 - Transmit approved ballot language to Clerk

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Section 4. Article V, Chapter 2, Section 5-2.2, of the Hawai‘i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows: “Section 5-2.2. Cost of Government Commission. For the purpose of carrying out the policy set forth herein the mayor with the approval of the council shall appoint a cost of government commission consisting of nine members. \[One member shall be a resident of each council district.\] Each of the nine council districts shall be represented by a resident appointed from that district. The managing director shall be an ex-officio member of the commission. The office of the mayor shall provide administrative and clerical services to the commission. Each commission shall: (a) Prepare and submit to the mayor a request for an appropriation for the operation of the commission. (b) Study and investigate the organizations and methods of operations of all departments, commissions, boards, offices and other instrumentalities of all branches of the county government and determine what changes, if any, may be desirable to accomplish the policy set forth herein. (c) Be authorized to secure directly from any department, commission, board, office or any other instrumentalities of all branches of the county government or from any individual officer or employee of the county, information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics necessary to carry out its duties. (d) Submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the mayor, managing director and council not later than eleven months after its appointment.” Section 5. Article VI, Chapter 4, Section 6-4.3, of the Hawai‘i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows: “Section 6-4.3. Qualifications. The director of information technology shall have had a minimum of five years of experience in the field of \[electronic data processing, telecommunications\] information technology, communications networking, and development, implementation and operation of \[business-oriented\] enterprise-oriented applications, at least three years of which shall have been in an administrative and managerial capacity in a \[computer system\] technology environment at least comparable to that of the county’s system.” Section 6. 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 \[central data processing\] network system, and coordinate and oversee the operations of departmental \[data processing systems,\] technology, except for \[those systems\] technology maintained by the department of water supply. 3