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• Y• s • , c • COUNTY COUNCIL Charter Review Commission County of Hawaii • February 20, 1979 Hawaii County E3uilding Page 3 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 I. REVISIONS A. Section 3-2 Composition and Terms We would recommend that the Council be composed of nine members , five to be elected from the State House of •Representative districts and four to be elected on an at-large basis. All members will serve four-year terms. The proposed recommendations would assure that each district is properly represented by the choice of the people within the district, not by the electorate of other districts. The four at-large members would provide the assurance that the issues will not be localized but will be addressed on a county-wide basis. E. Section 3-7 Organization of the Council; Officers; Employees The current Charter requirements have already proven the impracticality of one body servicing two masters, executive and legislative. . We are in consonance with the Mayor ' s recommendation that the .Council be authorized to retain their own legal counsel. C. Section 3-14 Adoption of Pay Plan • The adoption of the annual pay plan seems to be a redundant action, the Council must approve the positions established in the pay plan and it must approve the • funds for the positions in the operational budget. with proper amendments, the Council could take up the approval of the positions at the same time the budgetary appropriations are approved. D. Section 10-13 Post Audit The Council does not concur with the administration in changing the post audit requirements to a biennium audit. Appropriations are incorporated in an annual budget, thus the audit report should address the fiscal year coin- ciding with the budgetary appropriations. We are dealing with the public trust and thus it should be incumbent upon us to provide a disclosure of public fund expenditures on a timely basis. • J