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kSUPREME cotTwr OF HAWAII-11 a ' Opinion or the Court . j • laws such as Act 188, S.L.H. 1961. Under the committee proposal, no charter provision could supersede Act 188, - • . , 1 • I � S.L.H. 1961, unless the legislature,so provided. More- ktoa S I legislature of the power - over, any delegation by • y personnel matters will not be irrevocable. serve the authority of statutes such as the Administrative Procedure Act. therefore, the area i i As presented by your Committee, which the proposal places beyond legislative control is • limited to charter provisions as to the executive, legisla- I • Live and administrative structure and organization of the 1 • z' political subdivision. For example, the legislature could Inot 'change the composition of the legislative body of a `� county. However, the proposal specifically preserves the j authority of the legislature to enact general laws allocat- - ing and reallocating powers and functions. This means . i that the legislature could transfer a function from the county to the state level even if the result would be to t eliminate a department of the county government pro- F` t vided for inoits charter. i • I Vol.IProceedings of the Constitutional Convention of Hawaii ] 4 of 1968; 229. , i • It is beyond que } t the y68 or l Conven- I tion delegates intenleatatcotcharters acquire a stature 1 which would resist legislative interference in certain areas. Not only does the above-quoted committee report by the I i1 Committee on Local Government but, additionally, the de- bates in the Convention's Committee of the Wliole clearly indicate that the thrust of the constitutional amendment,was • to give the charter certain basic stability against•Iegislative. + encroachment. In response to a question by Delegate • Goemans,Delegate Ushijima.the chairman of the.Committee .# , on Local Government, responded, "Well, I don't know what 1 your definition of sovereignty is. What we are doing here is to . 1 give certain basic rights, constitutional rights to the charters, to the various counties insofar as the enactment of their • charter is concerned." Vol. II Proceedings of the Constitu- tional Convention of Hawaii of 1968, 424. We are compelled • -