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if themayor is unavailable for one reason or another, off the island, or whatever, they cannot make emergency appropriations. MR. OMONAKA: Doesn ' t this defeat the purpose of who declares an emergency? MR. ODA: The declaration of emergency can be made but we are talking about the appropriations, only, in this section. The mayor would have to declare the emergency. I think there is a provision that says in his absence, some- thing, you know, there is a provision for that. MR. TRULSON: How would the first sentence of the second paragraph read? MR. ODA: To meet a public emergency affecting life, health or property, the council may rake emergency appropriations. So the phrase, upon written request by the mayor, is suggested to be deleted. Everything else in Section 10-8 can still remain. It would be, then, consistent I think with Section 3-13. It would satisfy Mr. Nakamae' s concerns. So please ignore the draft which you have on the xeroxed sheet for this purpose. MR. TRULSON: Mr. Chairman. I would like to amend my original motion to incorporate what counsel has just stated to us. MRS. IWAMOTO: I second. CHAIRMAN SAKATA: It has been moved and seconded that we accept Section 3-13 and Section 10-8 as drafted by the counsel with proper language. Does everyone understand the intent of the motion? Ayes - Ishida, Kobayashi, Noes - None Iwamoto, Schutte, Absent - Cadinha Sensano, Omonaka, - 1 Trulson, Yagong, Yanaga, Sakata - 10 Carried. SECTION XVI : MR. ODA: If we can proceed now, Mr. Chairman, to the Transitional Provisions. MR. SCHUTTE: Stuart, this is all new language that you are putting in there? MR. ODA: We are rewording most of it. Deleting part of it. Much of it is already unnecessary. We checked on its necessity and found that, for example, well , we just made it to conform to the amendments in this charter. Let me go down this, I think it is easier. -36-