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COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
DATE: July 2, 2012 Re: Comm. No. 765
PLACE: Council Chambers
Hilo, Hawai`i
TIME: 8:05 a.m.
Council Chair and Members
Hawaii County Council
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred Communication 765, reports as follows:
Communication No. 765, transmitted by Mayor William P. Kenoi, dated June 13, 2012, appoints
Mr. Mark Ow as County of Hawai`i Director of Information Technology, effective June 4, 2012.
Mr. Ow was formerly a Senior Network Engineer with Hewlett-Packard; Consulting Engineer
with Apple Computer; Technical Marketing Manager with AT&T; Senior Manager with Dell
Computers; Director with Microsoft; and Senior Manager with Brocade Communications. He
returned to Hawaii to be closer to his family and was working for Time Warner Cable as an
Account Manager before accepting his new position with the County.
Pursuant to Article VI, Section 6-4.2 (Appointment and Removal) and 6-4.3 (Qualifications),
Hawai`i County Charter, "The director of information technology shall be appointed by the
mayor, confirmed by the council and may be removed by the mayor. The director of information
technology shall have had a minimum of five years of experience in the field of electronic data
processing, telecommunications networking, and development, implementation and operation of
business-oriented applications, at least three years of which shall have been in an administrative
and managerial capacity in a computer system environment at least comparable to that of the
county's system."
Deputy Corporation Counsel Craig Masuda and Managing Director Bill Takaba appeared before
Your Committee to introduce Mr. Ow. Some of Your Committee members commented their
concern on bringing forth to Council confirmation of appointment before candidate started
employment with the County. In this case, Mr. Ow's employment began on June 4, 2012, prior
to Council confirmation.
Mr. Ow provided a brief overview of his comprehensive plan recently submitted to the Mayor.
This comprehensive plan is his assessment towards modernization, and increasing productivity
and energy efficiency of the information technology system in place.
FC Report No. 230
FC-230 Page 2 July 2, 2012
Your Committee on Finance is in accord with the purpose and intent of Communication No. 765,
and recommends confirmation of the appointment of Mr. Mark Ow as County of Hawaii
Director of Information Technology.
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