Second Supplementary Emergency Proclamation May 30, 2018

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befall those residents displaced or voluntarily evacuated due to this eruptive event who are in need of temporary longer-term emergency shelter; and WHEREAS, in order to relieve this hardship and inequity, or obstruction to public welfare, it is necessary to suspend the above-cited provisions of the Hawaiʻi County Code to allow for the rapid preparation, set-up, construction, and/or installation of the longer-term temporary emergency shelters for displaced or voluntarily evacuated residents on public lands, and certain private lands if the private landowner(s) execute a Memorandum of Agreement with the Director of the Department of Public Works for the County of Hawaiʻi to ensure that certain minimum guidelines are met to protect public health and safety; and NOW, THEREFORE, I, Harry Kim, Mayor of the County of Hawai‘i, do hereby proclaim and declare that a state of emergency continues to exist due to threat of imminent disaster on the Hawai‘i Island, effective 30th, May, 2018, and continuing thereon for 60 days or until further act by this office. Notwithstanding the termination of a disaster emergency relief period, any contracts, agreements, procurements, programs, or employment of personnel entered into, started, or continued by reason of the provisions of my proclamations relating to this emergency shall continue. However, any contract entered into under this Proclamation for providing services pursuant to this Proclamation or an associated Memorandum of Agreement shall be limited to a period not to exceed twelve (12) months, but may be extended for a period of six (6) months provided such extension is at no additional cost above existing contract compensation and payment schedules. I FURTHER ORDER, that pursuant to Section 127A-13(b)(1) Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, the following Chapters of the Hawaiʻi County Code are suspended to prepare, set-up, construct, or install longer-term temporary emergency shelters for residents displaced or who voluntarily evacuated due to the active lava eruption on either public lands or certain private lands if the private landowner(s) have executed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Director of the Department of Public Works for the County of Hawaiʻi to ensure that certain minimum guidelines are met to protect public health and safety: Chapter 5, regarding Building; Chapter 9, regarding Electricity; Chapter 10, regarding Erosion and Sedimentation Control; Chapter 17, regarding Plumbing; Chapter 23, regarding Subdivisions; Chapter 25, regarding Zoning; and, Chapter 26, regarding Fire. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the County of Hawai‘i to be affixed. Done this 30th day of May, 2018 in Hilo, Hawai‘i. Harry Kim Mayor County of Hawai‘i