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Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 8:04 AM
To: Janice Glennie
Cc: • Villegas, Rebecca; Council Testimony
Subject: RE: Support Bill 109: increase appointment transparency and clarity
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From:Janice Glennie
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2023 10:25 PM
Cc:Villegas, Rebecca<Rebecca.Villegas@hawaiicounty.gov>
Subject:Support Bill 109: increase appointment transparency and clarity
Re: Bill 109
Aloha County Council Members,
Mahalo to Rep Inaba and Villegas for introducing a breath of fresh air to the county charter relating to appointments
and terms of county department heads.
Bill 109 will help our county take a more democratic approach to choosing and maintaining unelected but powerful and
critically important department heads, deputies, assistants, and private secretaries by helping to clarify the extent of
their terms.The bill will also help protect confidentiality and security in what is now a lax and possibly unethical
appointment and holdover process. For example, it will clarify whether an entire team or just a department head is
being terminated while requiring new department head appointments to go through council (aka public) review and
confirmation.
For all of these reasons and more, I ask that you support democratic transparency and increase the power of the
electorate by voting"yes"on Bill 109.
Sincerely and best,
Janice Palma-Glennie
Kailua-kona
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