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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 16s
ORDINANCE NO. (DRAFT 2)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2 ARTICLE 8 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY
CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION), AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BY DELETING ARTICLE 8 AND ADDING A NEW
ARTICLE TO ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABILITY ACTION COMMITTEE TO ADVISE THE
DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
Purpose. The Council finds that locally, nationally and internationally, there is mounting
scientific evidence and growing public awareness of the earth's limited resources and the
limitation of the earth to absorb the impacts from mankind's activities. Representative of the
earth's fragile condition, Hawaii Island is currently experiencing degradation of water and soil
quality, loss of biodiversity, mounting urban and rural blight and infrastructure shortfalls, and
increasing disparity of economic and social classes. The Council also recognizes that Hawaii
Island is highly vulnerable to the disruption of supplies and goods, due to the neaz 95% reliance
on outside food, fuel and fiber necessary to sustain our communities.
There is great public concern and interest in policies and actions that will positively
impact the ability of our island communities to support and sustain themselves and an expanding
expectation that government will act quickly to establish goals, objectives and policies that result
in practices that enhance and sustain our economy, society and the environment.
Therefore, the Council finds that there is a need to establish a Sustainability Action
Committee to advise the department of research and development in these interests and concerns
for Sustainability.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Article 8 of the Hawaii County Code is amended by repealing
Article 8 in its entirety.
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SECTION 2. A new Article 8 is adopted to read as follows:
Section 2-36. Purpose. It is the purpose of this article to provide the necessary
leadership to anchor the department of research and development's planning policies goals and
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actions in sustainable economic, societal and environmental practices. The adoption and
employment of sustainable practices as a framework for business as usual through systematic
chang~rocesses which shall result in concrete outcomes, changes in multiple functions or
portions of the system, and institutionalization of these changes on an on-goine basis to address
sustainable agriculture; alternative energy, fuel and waste management; ecological education,
business development, green housing and buildings; and protection of biodiversity.
Section 2-37. Sustainability Action Committee.
(a.l There shall be designated within the department of research and
development a Sustainability Action Committee, which shall sit in an
advisory capacity to the director of the department on matters that support
a sustainable economy, society and environment and are within the
department's purview to include energy, business development,
agriculture, tourism, film, community development, and other related
subiects. The department shallprovide support service to the committee.
(b.l Membership and Term. The committee shall be composed of five
members, who shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the
council. Anv member of the committee may be removed upon
recommendation of the mayor and the approval of the council. Members
shall serve a term of five years. However, for the initial appointment of
members, one member shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a
term of two years, one for a term of three yeazs, one for a term of four
years and one for a term of five years. In addition to the five members, the
director or the director's designee will serve as an ex-officio member of
the committee.
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(c.) The members shall be broadly representative of the county and
shall be selected on the basis of their knowledge, expertise, proven
innovative and technical skills and ability to network and source cutting
edge technologies with interests in one or more of the following areas:
agriculture business energy tourism, community, economics, planning,
architectural design community facilitation and Hawaiian culture.
(d) No member shall be eligible for a second appointment to the
committee prior to the expiration of two years, provided that members
appointed for a term of one year or two years shall be eligible to succeed
themselves for an additional term.
(e.) No member whose term has expired shall continue to serve on the
commission except that if no successor has been appointed and
confirmed the member shall continue to serve for ninety days or until a
successor is appointed and confirmed, whichever comes first.
(f) Any vacancy occurring in the committee shall be filled for the
unexpired term.
(g) Not more than a bare majority of the members shall belong to the
same political party.
}~i.) Members shall receive no compensation but shall be reimbursed
for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
Necessary expenses ma~paid in advance as per diem allowance
pursuant to Chapter 2, Article 16 of the Hawaii County Code.
(i.) A chairperson shall be elected from its membership annually.
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(i) The affirmative vote of a maiority of those members present shall
be necessary to make any action valid.
~k.) The committee shall have the power to establish its rules of
procedure necessary for the conduct of its business which rules shall
contain the time and place of all regular meetings, and which shall specify
that a quorum shall be a maiority of the members to which the committee
is entitled.
(1J No person shall, by reason of occupation alone, be barred from
serving as a member of this committee.
(m) The council shall act to confine or reiect any appointment made to
the committee by the mayor within forty-five days after receiving notice
of the appointment from the mayor. If the council does not confirm or
reject any such appointment within forty-five day, the appointee shall be
deemed to have been confinned.
Section 2- .Duties of the committee.
(a) The Sustainability Action Committee shall make recommendations
and support the department's integration of planning and implementation
of sustainable principles in its work with communities, businesses and
other agencies.
(~b.l The Sustainability Action Committee shall support and make
recommendations to:
(1) Raise awareness of what the term sustainabilit~presents
and the guiding principles of Sustainability;
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(2) Conduct environmental scans to assess current conditions
as they relate to the ¢uiding_principles of sustainability;
(3) Identify a vision for sustainability and recommend
solutions; and
(4) Support the development of sustainability actions plans.
(c.) The sustainability Action Committee shall support, monitor and
comment on the department's efforts to effectuate sustainable
planning,_policies, programs, proiects and operations.
Section 2- .Guidelines for committee recommendations.
(a.) The Sustainability Action Committee shall apply uig ding
principles of sustainability as a framework for identification of issues,
research and innovative actions. These principles shall include:
(1) Reduced dependence upon fossil fuels, extracted
underground metals and minerals;
(2) Reduced dependence on chemicals and other manufactured
substances that can accumulate in nature;
(3) Reduced dependence on activities that harm life-sustainine
ecosystems; and
(4) Meeting the hierarchy of human needs fairly and
efficiently.
(b.) The Sustainability Action Committee shall employ a "systems
approach" to identify upstream root causes and outcomes and shall
recommend appropriate research, planning and implementation initiatives;
outcome measures and indicators; engagements and partnerships as may
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be necessary to guide the department to innovative and successful
sustainable models that effectuate the purpose of this article.
(c.) The Sustainability Action Committee shall consider the
recommendations provided in the General Plan Community Development
Plan ordinances community visioning processes and other agencies'
planning documents Additionally the committee shall seek innovative
solutions programs and initiatives based upon sustainable precepts of
native Hawaiian culture and other local, national and international
resources to advance the pumose of this article and seek the necessary
technical and other support required for implementation by the
d~artment other agencies and the community. The committee shall
encourage and participate in the internal and external network
~ortunities at the local state national and international levels.
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. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is
underscored. In printing this Ordinance, the brackets, the bracketed material and stricken
material, and the underscoring need not be included.
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SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COi~ ~ T~~OF H WAI' l
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Hilo, Hawai:i
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1st Reading:
Date of 2nd Reading:
Effective Date:
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