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Hawaii County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 MS. TODD: I am still troubled by the language and so I still would like to either get rid of Section 3-16 because we now have, this was language from before when we did not have an independent Office of the Auditor. MS. NIMS: Right. MS. TODD: So to me, we no longer need it. I was thinking about either deleting it or just saying that program reviews shall be conducted pursuant to 3-18 or something along those lines. MS. NIMS: Yeah, I mean... MS. TODD: To reflect the independence. MS. NIMS: Right. Right. As long as it's not a statutorily required thing, I think that would be appropriate since we do talk to the Council on any request that they have. MS. TODD: Okay. Thank you. MS. NIMS: Mm-hmm. CHR. ADAMS: Thanks, Commissioner Todd. Any comments or questions for Ms.—quickly, or briefly, hopefully briefly, in Section a of 3-18, you are, the Charter identifies you as an independent office of the legislative branch. Right. MS. NIMS: Correct. CHR. ADAMS: And you are appointed by the County Council therein of course the Council may remove the Auditor at any time for cause. There is no connection with the executive branch in that process. And so, your identification of a County Auditor perhaps you can tell me and I am sure I can take a look, but you have probably already looked, in the other Charters, that hasn't mattered? They don't have a connection? MS. NIMS: No. This is, it was modeled after, my understanding was the City and County of Honolulu. CHR. ADAMS: Right and they, do they have an executive check on that as well? MS. NIMS: Yes. CHR. ADAMS: So in other words the Council... Page 30