CA-0001 Draft 2 -reprhase district residency language

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Section 9. Article VIII, Section 8-2, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2016 Edition), is amended to read as follows: "Section 8-2. Water Board. The water board shall consist of nine members who shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council in the manner prescribed in Section 13-4. [43+ e mcmbcr shall be a resident of each council district.] Each of the nine council districts shall be represented by a resident appointed from that district. The manager -chief engineer of the department of water supply, the planning director and the director of public works or their designated representatives shall serve as ex -officio members of the water board without power to vote. The water board shall: (a) Manage, control and operate the waterworks of the county and all property thereof. (b) Adopt rules and regulations which shall have the force and effect of law relating to the management, control, operation, preservation and protection of the waterworks of the county. (c) Adopt an annual operating and capital budget for the department, subject to the hearing and advertising provisions of Section 10-4. (d) Have the power to acquire by eminent domain, purchase, lease or otherwise, and to sell, lease, or otherwise convey real property in the name of the water board. (e) Have the authority to issue revenue bonds under the name of the water board. (f) Have such other powers and duties as may be provided by law." Section 10. Article XIII, Section 13-28, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2016 Edition), is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: "(b) [One mcmbcr shall be a resident of each council district.] Each of the nine council districts shall be represented by a resident appointed from that district. In addition, the director of human resources and deputy director of human resources shall serve as ex -officio members of the commission in an advisory capacity." Section 11. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i (2018), the revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or underscoring. Section 12. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter, and section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved by the electorate. Section 13. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the 4