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2009 -10 Charter Commission - 9 Page 4 November 6, 2009 <br />CA -29: PROSECUTING ATTORNEY POWERS <br />Amends Section 9 -3. The proposed amendment would give the prosecuting attorney <br />additional discretionary powers relating to crime research, prevention and education. <br />CA -30: BOARD AND COMMISSION WEBSITES <br />Amends Section 13 -4. The proposed amendment would require boards and <br />commissions to maintain websites. <br />CA -31: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND ENERGY <br />Adds a new chapter to Article VI. The proposed charter amendment would create a <br />new department to encompass certain services currently provided at a modest level by <br />the department of research and development, but not delineated in the county charter. <br />CA -32: SPECIAL COUNSEL <br />Amends Section 6 -5.5. The proposed amendment would allow any officer or <br />employee to retain special counsel in situations where the corporation counsel has <br />been disqualified. <br />CA -33: POSTING NOTICES - BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS <br />Amends Section 13 -20. The proposed amendment would require notices of all <br />regular and special meetings of the council and boards and commissions to be <br />conspicuously posted on the bulletin board of the Hawai'i County Building with an <br />electronic notice linked on the appropriate council, board or commission webpage <br />CA -34: BUDGETARY INDEPENDENCE OF THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR <br />Adds a sub - section (d) to Section 10 -3. The purpose is to increase the budgetary <br />independence of the legislative auditor from the executive branch and the county <br />council by calculating the allocation for the office of the legislative auditor as a <br />percentage of the total of the operating and special funds budgets. The actual <br />funds will come from the general fund. <br />CA -35: RECALL <br />Replaces Article X11, Chapter 1, Sections 12 -1.1 through 12 -1.9. The purpose is to <br />re -write Article XII, chapter 1, Section 12 -1.1 through 12 -1.9 on Recall to provide <br />definitions, to define the petitioners' committee requirements, the petition, and <br />timelines, to clarify petition sufficiency requirements, the recall procedure, the county <br />clerk's duties, and the method to filling vacancies. <br />UNFINISHED BUSINESS <br />CA -12: INITIATION OF CHARTER AMENDMENTS OR REVISIONS <br />Amends Section 15 -1. Changes the information that needs to be provided to the <br />county to verify the identity of persons signing a petition for a charter amendment so <br />that the office of elections may easily verify signatures; and change the requirement <br />of the number of signatures necessary from 20% of the registered voters to 20% of <br />the votes cast in the last general election. This proposal also increases the amount of <br />time the office of the county clerk would have to verify the signatures on the petition <br />from twenty working days to thirty working days. <br />Postponed: October 9, 2009 <br />