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Emergency Proclamation Relating to Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant
<br />February 11, 2025
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<br />WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS § 127A-12(a)(5), the Mayor may direct or control as may
<br />be necessary for emergency management: alerts, warnings, notifications, activations, warnings
<br />and signals for alerts and any type of warning device, system, or method to be used in connection
<br />therewith; partial or full mobilization of personnel in advance of or in response to an actual
<br />emergency or disaster; and the conduct of civilians and the movement and cessation of
<br />movement of pedestrians and vehicular traffic during, before, and after alerts, exercises, training
<br />emergencies, or disasters; and
<br />WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS §127A-12(c)(6) the Mayor may "[p]urchase, make,
<br />produce, construct, rent, lease, or procure by condemnation or otherwise, transport, store, install,
<br />maintain, and insure, repair, renovate, restore, replace or reconstruct, and distribute, furnish or
<br />otherwise dispose of, with or without charges, materials and facilities for emergency
<br />management; and to procure federal aid therefor whenever feasible. Chapter 103D and sections
<br />103-50, 103-53, 103-55, 105-1 to 10540, and 464-4 shall not apply to any emergency
<br />management functions of and to the extent that the mayor finds that the provisions, in whole or
<br />in part, impede or tend to impede the expeditious discharge of the functions, or that compliance
<br />therewith is impracticable due to existing conditions; and
<br />WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS § 127A-12(c)(14), the Mayor may "order and direct
<br />government agencies, officials, officers, and employees of the county, to take action and employ
<br />measures for law enforcement, medical, health, firefighting, traffic control, warnings and signals,
<br />engineering, rescue, construction, emergency housing, and other welfare, hospitalization,
<br />transportation, water supply, public information, training, and other emergency functions as may
<br />be necessary and utilize the services, materials, and facilities of the agencies and officers. All
<br />agencies and officers shall cooperate with and extend their services, materials, and facilities to
<br />the Mayor as the Mayor may request"; and
<br />WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS § 127A-12(c)(17), the Mayor is authorized to take any and
<br />all steps necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of chapter 127A HRS,
<br />notwithstanding that the powers in § 127A-12 may only be taken during an emergency period;
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS § 127A- 13 (b) (2) the Mayor is further authorized to
<br />"suspend any county law that impedes or tends to impede or be detrimental to the expeditious
<br />and efficient execution of, or to conflict with, emergency functions, including laws that by this
<br />chapter specifically are made applicable to emergency personnel"; and
<br />WHEREAS, due to the possibility of imminent disaster to the health, safety, and welfare
<br />of the people of Hawaii Island, and the need for government agencies and representatives from
<br />the private sector to mobilize and provide immediate services to our island residents, a Civil
<br />Defense state of emergency is authorized pursuant to Chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
<br />as amended, and Chapter 7, Hawai`i County Code.
<br />NOW, THEREFORE, I, C. KIMO ALAMEDA, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, do
<br />hereby proclaim and declare that a state of emergency exists due to the threat of imminent
<br />disaster on Hawaii Island, effective February 1.1, 2025, 9:30 a.m., Hawaii standard time and I
<br />hereby ORDER;
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