HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 090 Draft 01 2024-2026 GOEAC-20 October 21,2025
POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER 4, 2025:
Ayes: Committee Members Galimba, Hustace, Inaba,
Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder, Kimball, Onishi, Villegas,
and Chair Kagiwada—8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Committee Member Kierkiewicz— 1.
Excused: None.
Bill 90: INITIATES AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XIII, SECTION 13-8, OF THE
CHARTER OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I(2024 EDITION), RELATING TO
TERM OF OFFICE AND APPOINTMENT OF DEPARTMENT HEADS
Repeals the requirement that the Mayor appoint department heads within 30 days of
taking office, and within 60 days of any vacancy occurring during the Mayor's term of
office.
Reference: Comm. 515
Intr. by: Council Member Onishi
Postponed: October 7, 2025
(Note: There is a motion by Council Member Onishi, seconded by Council
Member Galimba, to recommend passage of Bill 90 on first reading.)
WITHDRAWN
ADJOURNMENT—10:33 a.m.
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COUNTY OF HAWAI`I
STATE OF HAWAI`I
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BILL NO. 90
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XIII, SECTION 13-8
OF THE CHARTER OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I (2024 EDITION), RELATING TO
TERM OF OFFICE AND APPOINTMENT OF DEPARTMENT HEADS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I:
SECTION 1. Article XIII, section 13-8, of the Charter of the County of Hawaii (2024
Edition), is amended to read as follows:
"Section 13-8. Term of Office and Appointment of Department Heads.
(a) The term of office of department heads shall be coterminous with that of the mayor;
provided[;] that where a successor has not been appointed, sitting department heads
may continue in office pending such appointment.
(b) Themayor- shall appoint do mime t heads within thiA::_days of taking o f fiee o
v4thii Six p-&-i safter- the oeeuffe l$e of any vaeaney. The eouneil shall aet to
d., after-r-eeeiving+;,. of the appoi .tment f isue aut ..uyvi� .] If the council does
not confirm or reject any such appointment within sixty days, the appointee shall be
deemed to have been confirmed.
(c) Department heads shall take office upon appointment but shall not continue in
office if the council denies confirmation."
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 Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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 Hawaii, 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 Hawaii 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.
Hawaii
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1 st Reading:
Date of 2nd Reading:
Date of 3rd Reading:
Effective Date:
REFERENCE Comm. 515
INTRODUCE Y:
COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAPI
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