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Meeting: Hawaii County Council - Maxch 6, 1998
Action: Close file - died due to lack of two-thirds majority vote.
Re: Bill 138/C-483
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COUNTY OF HAWAI ` ..'STATE OF HAWAII
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE TO INITIATE AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XIII, SECTION 13-28, OF
THE HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER (1991), RELATING TO THE SALARY COMMISSION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION I. Article XIII, Section 13-28 of the Hawaii County Charter is amended to read as
follows:
"Section 13-28. Compensation; Salary Commission.
(a) [The salary of all county elected officials shall be established by a salary commission
which shall consist of nine members appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council, in the
manner prescribed in Section 13-4(b). The members may be removed in the manner prescribed in
Section 13-4(b).] The salary commission shall establish the salary of all county elected officials. the
managing director, deputymanaging director, housing administrator. safety coordinator. band
director. county physicians county clerk, deputy county clerk, legislative auditor, and department
heads. along with deputy department heads, of departments described in articles V through VII and
article IX of this charter.
(h) Any action of the commission establishing the salaries and salary schedules shall be
by resolution accompanied by findings of fact The resolution and findings of fact shall be
forwarded to the mayor and the council and shall take effect without their concurrence sixty calendar
days after its adoption by the commission unless rejected by a two-thirds vote of the council's entire
membership The council may reject the entire resolution or any portion thereof.
([b]) The commission shall consist of nine members[, six of whom shall be representatives
of the county geographical areas of Puna, Ka' u, Kona, Kohala, Hamakua and Hilo, and three of
whom shall be representatives of the county -at -large]. One member shall be appointed from each of
the resneetive nine county council districts. In addition, the civil service director and deputy civil
service director shall serve as ex -officio members of the commission in an advisory capacity.
([c]d) The commission shall establish its rules of procedure, which shall provide that it meet
at least annually, and adopt rules and regulations having the force and effect of law.
([d]e) The commission shall review and [compensate all county elected officials so that their
salaries have a reasonable relationship to the salaries of civil service employees, given due
consideration for the duties and responsibilities of the officials] set the compensation for those
persons identified in subsection (a) in accordance with generally accepted principles of pay and
compensation for work performed and preservation of a sensible relationship with the salaries of
other county employees: provided that once having set the salary for the mayor, the salaries for all
other positions set by the commission shall not exceed 95% of the mayor's salary."
SECTION 2. Following adoption of this amendment, the current members of the salary
commission will continue to serve their terms of office. As new appointments are made, any
duplications or lack of representation of a council district shall be corrected.
SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and new material is underscored.
SECTION 4. Severability. If any provisions 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.
SECTION 5. Upon adoption of this ordinance, the council, by appropriate resolution, shall
provide that this amendment be submitted to the electorate of the county for approval at the next
general election.
SECTION 6. This amendment shall take effect upon its approval by the voters.
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNTY OF HAWAII
Hilo, Hawaii
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1" Reading:
Date of 2" Reading
Date of V Reading:
E��efckt ve.Date: Comm. 483.08
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
CORPORATION COUNSEL
DATE:
OFFICF. OF THE COUNTY CLERK
County of Hawaii
Hilo , Hawaii
Introduced By.
Janes Y.
Arakaki
Date Introduced:
October
15, 1997
First Reading:
February
18, 1998
Published:
February
26, 199.8
REMARKS:
10/15/97 - Deferred on Council level.
01/07/98 - Deferred on Council level.
Second Reading: March 6, 1998
To Mayor:
N/A
Returned:
N/A
Effective:
N/A
Published:
N/A
REMARKS:
Close file - failed to reach tt -thirds
majority vote required -
ROLL CALL VOTE.
AYES
NOES
ABS
EX
Arakaln X
Chung
X
Leithead-Todd X
Ray X
Reynolds -x
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Santangelo
X
Smith
X
Tyler
X
Yagong
X
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3
2
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I DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing BILL was adopted by the County Council and published as
indicated above.
Approved/Disapproved thio
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MAYOR, COUNTY OF HAWAII
COUNCIL CHAIRMAN
COUN"fYCLERK
Bill No.: 138 (Draft )
Reference: C-483/FC-143
Ord. No.: