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AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, CHAPTER 2, SECTION 6-2.2, OF THE CHARTER OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I (2024 EDITION), RELATING TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I:
SECTION 1. Article VI, chapter 2, section 6-2.2, of the Charter of the County of Hawai‘i (2024 Edition) is amended to read as follows:
“Section 6-2.2. Director[.] and Deputy.
(a) The director of public works shall be appointed by the mayor, confirmed by the council and may be removed by the mayor. [The director shall be a registered professional engineer.]
The director shall have had a minimum of five years of experience in an administrative or managerial capacity[.], two years of which shall have been in public works, construction or
a related field. The director shall also have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in the United States of America in engineering, architecture, business, public administration
or a related discipline or be an attorney licensed to practice and in good standing before the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai‘i.
(b) A deputy director of public works shall be a professional registered engineer and shall have authority over the engineering responsibilities of the department when the director does
not have such certification.”
SECTION 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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 revisor need not include the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring.
SECTION 3. Severability. 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 4. Upon adoption of this ordinance, the Council, by appropriate resolution, shall provide that this charter amendment be submitted to the electorate of the County of Hawai‘i
for approval in the 2026 general election.
SECTION 5. The charter amendment proposed in this ordinance shall take effect upon its approval by a majority of voters voting on this legislation in the 2026 general election, as duly
certified.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
_______________, Hawai‘i
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