HomeMy WebLinkAboutREP FC 326 08/22/2000 1998-2000 REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
DATE: August 22, 2000 Re: Comm. No. 887/Bill No. 305
PLACE: Council Chambers
TIME: 10:35 A.M.
Council Chair and Members
Hawaii County Council
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred Bill No. 305, reports as follows:
Bill No. 305, transmitted by Council Member Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd, via Communication No. 887,
dated August 10, 2000, amends Chapter 2, Article 15, of the Hawaii County Code, by adding a new
section relating to the Code of Ethics.
This measure proposes to require the County Council, Mayor, County Department Heads, Members of
Board and Commissions and employees with regulatory functions, such as building inspectors, to report
any gifts over $200. To amend the County Code of Ethics to follow the language contained in the State
Code of Ethics.
Said bill also proposes that a county agency shall not enter into any contracts over $10,000 with
organizations in which a county official has controlling interest. Exceptions to the proposed law would
include contracts awarded through a sealed bid process or if the agency notifies the Board of Ethics ten
days before awazding the contract.
Your Committee, during its discussion of Bill No. 305, made the following amendments:
1. Page 6, Section 2-91.5(a)(1). "The officer or employee, or spouse or dependent child of
an officer or employee, received directly or indirectly from one source any gift or gifts
valued singly or in the aggregate in excess of [$200.00] 100.00, whether the gift is in the
form of money, service, goods or in any other form."
2. Page 6, Section 2-91.5(b). "The report shall cover the period from June 1 of the
preceding calendar year through [June 1 ] May 31 of the year of the report."
Your Committee on Finance is in accord with the purposes and intent of Bill No. 305, as amended to
Draft 2, and recommends it pass first reading.
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Hues rvoES a&s ex Respectfully submitted
CHUNG X
ELARIONOFe x COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
JACOBSON X
LEITHEAD-TODD X
PISICCHIO X
SMITH X
TvLER x AARON S.Y. CHUNG, CHAIR
YAGONG X FC REPORT NO. 326
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