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COUNTY OF HAWAI`I + �": '� t STATE OF HAWAI`I
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BILL NO. 168
ORDINANCE NO. 24 54
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AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V, CHAPTER 2, OF
THE CHARTER OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII (2022 EDITION),RELATING TO
THE COST OF GOVERNMENT COMMISSION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to propose an amendment to the
County Charter providing the members of the Cost of Government Commission with.a longer
timeframe to more thoroughly and carefully accomplish their work as directed by the Charter.
SECTION 2. Article V, chapter 2, section 5-2.2 of the Charter of the County of Hawai`i
(2022 Edition)is amended to read as follows:
"Section 5-2.2. Cost of Government Commission.
For the purpose of carrying out the policy set forth herein the mayor with the approval of
the council shall appoint a cost of government commission consisting of nine members. Each of
the nine council districts shall be represented by a resident appointed from that district. The
managing director shall be an ex-officio members of the commission. The office of the mayor
shall provide administrative and clerical services to the commission.
Each commission shall:
(a) Prepare and submit to the mayor a request for an appropriation for the operation
of the commission.
(b) Study and investigate the organizations and methods of operations of all
departments, commissions,boards, offices and other instrumentalities of all
branches of the county government and determine what changes, if any,may be
desirable to accomplish the policy set forth herein.
(c) Be authorized to secure directly from any depattuient, commission,board, office
or any other instrumentalities of all branches of the county government or from
any individual officer or employee of the county, information, suggestions,
estimates, and statistics necessary to carry out its duties.
(d) Submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the mayor, managing
director and council not later than [eleven] twenty months after its appointment."
SECTION 3. Article V, chapter 2, section 5-2.3 of the Charter of the County of Hawai`i
(2022 Edition)is amended to read as follows:
"Section 5-2.3. Term of Commission.
The commission members shall be appointed to terms starting [one y ar] eighteen months
after the beginning of the term of the mayor, and lasting [eleven] twenty-two months."
SECTION 4. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.New Charter
material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or printing these charter provisions for
inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i, the reviser need not include the brackets,
bracketed material, or underscoring.
SECTION 5. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person
or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of
the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this
end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.
SECTION 6. Upon adoption of this ordinance, the Council, by appropriate resolution,
shall provide that this amendment be submitted to the electorate of the County of Hawai`i for
approval in the 2024 general election.
SECTION 7. This charter amendment proposed in this ordinance shall take effect upon
approval by a majority of voters voting on this legislation in the 2024 general election, as duly
certified.
INTRODUCED BY:
C C MB , COUNTY OF HAW T I
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6 COUNCIL BER, COUNTY OF HAWAI`I
Hilo , Hawai`i
Date of Introduction: June 5, 2024
Date of 1st Reading: June 5, 2024
Date of 2nd Reading: June 19, 2024
Date of 3rd Reading: July 10, 2024
Effective Date: November 5, 2024, if approved by the voters
REFERENCE Comm. 893
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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK
County of Hawai`i
Hilo, Hawai`i
t s ,ced By: ROLL CALL VOTE
Date Intro.u • AYES ABS EX
First Reading: Evans
Published: Gali a
naba
REMARKS. Kagiwada
-ali`i-Kleinfelder
Kierkiewi
Kimball
Lee Loy
Villegas
Third Reading: July 10, 202 4
To Mayor: July 15, 2024
Returned: July 24, 2024 ROLL CALL VOTE
Effective: November 5, 2024 if approved by voters AYES NOES ABS EX
Published: August 9, 2024
Evans X
REMARKS: Galimba X
Inaba X
Kagiwada X
July 10, 2024 : Third of three required Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder X
readings pursuant to section 15-1; Kierkiewicz X
Hawai 'i County Charter Kimball X
Lee Loy X
Villegas X
7 0 2 0
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing BILL was adopted by the County Council published as
indicated above.
COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON
6 pY'ove Disapproved this / day
of I , 20 / . COUNTY CLERK
168
Bill No.:
MAYOR, COUNTY OF H AI`I C-893/Waived GOEAC
Reference:
Ord No.: 4_
COUNTY.C1.. _ate: i
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK . COUNTY OF 1-i to WAd
County of Hawai`i
Hilo, Hawai`i 20711 JUL24 Pa 1' 22
Introduced By: Jenn Kagiwada and ROLL CALL VOTE
Cindy Evans AYES NOES ABS EX
Date Introduced: June 5, 2 0 2 4 Evans X
First Reading: June 5, 2 0 2 4 . Galimba X
Published: June 14, 2024
Inaba X
Kagiwada X
REMARK'S. Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder X
Kierkiewicz X
Kimball X
Lee Loy X
Villegas X
8 0 1 0
Second Reading: June 19, 2024
Te-Maykw NA ROLL CALL VOTE
iiz
n * cQ.d: NA
Returned:
Effective: NA AYES NOES ABS EX
Published: NA Evans X
Galimba X
REMARKS:
Inaba X
June 19, 2024 : Second of three required Kagiwada X
readings pursuant to section 15-1; Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder X
Hawai 'i County Charter Kierkiewicz X
Kimball X
Lee Loy X
Villegas X
8 0 1 0
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing BILL was adopted by the County Council published as
indicated above.
COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON
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Aprove Disapproved this tti day
of 1"1 , 20 COUNTY CLERK
168
Bill No.:
MAYOR, COUNTY OF HAWAI`I C-893/Waived GOEAC
Reference:
Ord No.: c - -1