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F'ourth Amended Finergency Proclamation Relating to the Hilo wastewater Treatment Plant
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<br /> health, safety, and welfare of the people of the County of Hawaii, who will be negatively
<br /> impacted if the Plant fails and waters are polluted; and
<br /> WHEREAS, pursuant to FIRS § 127A-12(a)(5), the Mayor may direct or control as may
<br /> he 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 niobilization 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 FIRS § 127A-12(c)(6) the Mayor may "[plurchase, 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 /> rnanagernent; and to procure federal aid therefor whenever feasible. Chapter 1031) 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 [Mlayor 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, PUI-SWInt to FIRS § 127A-12(c)(I 4), 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 [M]ayor as the [M]ayor may request;" and
<br /> WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS § 127A-I 2(c)(I 7), the Mayor is authorized to take any and
<br /> all steps necessary or appropriate to carry Out the purposes of FIRS Chapter I 27A,
<br /> notwithstanding that the powers in FIRS § I 27A-I 3(b) may only be exercised during an
<br /> emergency period; and
<br /> WHEREAS, pursuant to FIRS §I 27A-I 3(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 rnade applicable to emergency personnel;" and
<br /> WHEREAS, due to the imminent danger or threat of an emergency or a disaster relating
<br /> to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the County of Flawaii, and the need for
<br /> government agencies and representatives from the private sector to mobilize and provide
<br /> immediate services to our island residents, a state of emergency is authorized pursuant to FIRS
<br /> Chapter 127A, CCH § 13-23, and HCC Chapter 7; and
<br /> WHEREAS, I issued the Emergency Proclamation Relating to the Hilo Wastewater
<br /> Treatment Plant on February 11, 2025, the First Amended Emergency Proclamation Relating to
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