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�JMt!I Os M,� <br /> • � <br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII ��� = .•/�• STATE OF HAWAII <br /> RESOLUTION NO. 486 14 <br /> RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CLERK OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII TO TAKE <br /> NECESSARY ACTION TO PLACE THE CHARTER AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY <br /> ORDINANCE NO. 14-98 ON THE 2014 GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT. <br /> WHEREAS, article XV, Hawai`i County Charter, governs Charter amendments and <br /> revisions; and <br /> WHEREAS, the requirements for amending the Charter by ordinance are set out in <br /> sections 15-1 and 15-2, Hawai`i County Charter; and <br /> WHEREAS, section 15-1 requires that an ordinance proposing a Charter amendment be <br /> adopted after three readings on separate days and passed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of <br /> the entire membership of the Hawai`i County Council; and <br /> WHEREAS, section 15-2 requires that upon adoption of such an ordinance, the Council <br /> shall by resolution provide that the proposed amendment be submitted to the electors of the <br /> County for approval at the next general election and that the resolution shall provide for the <br /> publication of the full text of the proposed amendments in a daily newspaper of general <br /> circulation in the County at least forty-five days prior to submission to the electors of the County <br /> as well as via an electronic medium, such as the internet; and <br /> WHEREAS, section 11-119(b), Hawai`i Revised Statutes, requires that questions and <br /> issues which are to be placed on the general election ballot be submitted to the Chief Election <br /> Officer of the State of Hawai`i not later than 4:30 p.m. on the seventy-fifth calendar day prior to <br /> the election; and <br /> WHEREAS,the next general election will be held on November 4, 2014; and <br /> WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 14-98, which proposes an amendment to the Hawai`i <br /> County Charter relating to the term of appointment for the County Clerk of the County of <br /> Hawai`i, was adopted after three readings on the following dates by the following votes: <br /> Reading Date Vote <br /> First Reading June 4, 2014 6 ayes, 3 noes <br /> Second Reading June 18, 2014 6 ayes, 3 noes <br /> Third Reading July 2, 2014 7 ayes, 1 no, and 1 absent <br /> WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 14-98 was approved by Mayor William P. Kenoi on July 22, <br /> 2014, and published on July 30, 2014; and <br />