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Sixth Amended Emergency 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 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; Lind 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-I 2(c)(6) the Mayor may "[p]ut-chase, ri-take,
<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 105-10, and 464-4 shall not apply to any emergency
<br /> management functions of and to the extent that the [M]ayor 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)(1.4), 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 set-vices, 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 [Mlayor may request-," and
<br /> WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS § 127A-12(c)(I 7), the Mayor is authorized to take any and
<br /> all steps necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of HRS Chapter I 27A,
<br /> notwithstanding that the powers in HRS § 127A-I 3(b) may only be exercised during an
<br /> emergency period; and
<br /> WHEREAS, pursuant to HRS §I 27A-I 3(b)(2), the Mayor is further authorized to
<br /> suspend any county law that impedes or tends to irripede 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;" Lind
<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 Hawaii, 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 HRS
<br /> Chapter 127A, CCI-I § 13-23, and HCC Chapter 7; and
<br /> WHEREAS, I issued the Emergency Proclamation Relating to the Hilo Wastewater
<br /> Treatment Plant on February 1. 1, 2025; the First. Amended Emergency Proclamation Relating to
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