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2009 -10 Charter Commission - 9 Page 3 November 6, 2009 <br />CA -20: COUNCIL STANDING COMMITTEES <br />Adds a section to Article III. Creates standing committees composed of all council <br />members to achieve the most efficient handling of Council business and ensure <br />council members from each district have the same opportunity to have input in the <br />development of ordinances and resolutions. <br />CA -21: PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF APPEALS MEMBERSHIP <br />Amends Section 13 -4(k). The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that the <br />planning process is above reproach and to maintain the integrity of the planning <br />commission and appeals board by avoiding charges of the appearance of impropriety <br />in the composition of these bodies. <br />CA -22: FILING OF COUNCIL AGENDA <br />Amends Section 3 -7. The proposed amendment would require notices of all regular <br />and special meetings of the council to be conspicuously posted on the bulletin board <br />of the Hawai'i County Building with an electronic notice linked on the appropriate <br />council webpage and specify time for filing and posting the notice to be 4:30 p.m. <br />CA -23: ELECTRONIC NOTICE WITH NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS <br />Amends Sections 3- 10(c)(3), 3- 10(h), 6- 7.5(a)(4), 10 -4, 11 -4(p), 13- 20(c), 15 -2, 15 -3. <br />Whenever a public notice is required by this charter or by ordinance to be published <br />in a daily newspaper, the public notice shall also be distributed via an electronic <br />medium, such as the Internet, within the same time frame as newspaper publication. <br />CA -24: BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS <br />Amends Section 13 -4 to increase council member input in the selection of members <br />of boards and commissions. <br />CA -25: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLANS (CDP) <br />Adds a new section to Article III and amends Section 6- 7.2(b)2. These provisions <br />would make the community development planning process part of the charter and <br />create community development plan action committees. <br />CA -26: CONSERVATION OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES <br />Adds a new section to Article XIII, General Provisions. The purpose of this <br />amendment is to memorialize the county's responsibility under the state constitution <br />to ensure that development of the natural resources of the county are done in a <br />manner consistent with their conservation and to add cultural resources to this <br />responsibility. <br />CA -27: VACANCIES IN OFFICE <br />Replaces Section 3 -4. The purpose is to provide for an election for a council member <br />if a vacancy occurs with more than six months left in the outgoing member's term <br />and to set a procedure for filling the vacancy when less than six months is left that <br />permits members of the public to apply to the Council for the vacant office. <br />CA -28: DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL DEFENSE <br />Adds a new chapter to Article V. The proposed amendment would establish a <br />Department of Civil Defense. <br />