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Meeting: Council — July 7, 2016
Action: Postponed to the Call of the Chair; never taken up again
Re: Res 548-16; Comm. 918 (2014-2016 term)
COUNTY OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION NO.
STATE OF HAWAI `I
548 16
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CLERK OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII TO
TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO PLACE THE CHARTER AMENDMENT
PROPOSED BY ORDINANCE NO. 15-81 ON THE 2016 GENERAL ELECTION
BALLOT.
WHEREAS, article XV, Hawaii County Charter, governs Charter amendments and
revisions; and
WHEREAS, the requirements for amending the Charter by ordinance are set out in
sections 15-1 and 15-2, Hawaii County Charter; and
WHEREAS, section 15-1 requires that an ordinance proposing a Charter amendment be
adopted after three readings on separate days and passed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of
the entire membership of the Hawaii County Council; and
WHEREAS, section 15-2 requires that upon adoption of such an ordinance, the Council
shall by resolution provide that the proposed amendment be submitted to the electors of the
County for approval at the next general election and that the resolution shall provide for the
publication of the full text of the proposed amendments in a daily newspaper of general
circulation in the County as well as via an electronic medium, such as the internet, at least forty-
five days (Saturday, September 24, 2016) prior to submission to the electors of the County; and
WHEREAS, section 11-119(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires that questions and
issues which are to be placed on the general election ballot be submitted to the Chief Election
Officer of the State of Hawaii not later than 4:30 p.m. on the seventy-fifth calendar day
(Thursday, August 25, 2016) prior to the election; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 15-81, which proposes an amendment to the Hawaii
County Charter relating to County bands, was adopted after three readings on the following dates
by the following votes:
Reading
First Reading
Second Reading
Third Reading
Date
August 5, 2015
August 19, 2015
September 2, 2015
Vote
7 ayes, 0 noes, 2 absent
9 ayes, 0 noes
9 ayes, 0 noes
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 15-81 was approved by Mayor William P. Kenoi on
September 25, 2015, and published on October 3, 2015; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it
hereby directs the Clerk of the County of Hawaii to take all necessary steps provided for in all
applicable provisions of the Hawaii County Charter and the Hawaii Revised Statutes, within
the prescribed time limits, for placing the Charter amendment proposed by Ordinance No. 15-81
on the 2016 General Election ballot for approval by the voters of the County on November 8,
2016.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that those actions include but not be limited to
submission of the ballot question to Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer of the State of
Hawaii, prior to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2016, pursuant to section 11-119(b), Hawaii
Revised Statutes, and publication of the full text of the Charter amendment proposed by
Ordinance No. 15-81 in the Hawaii Tribune Herald and the West Hawaii Today, two
newspapers of general circulation in the County, prior to Saturday, September 24, 2016, the
forty-fifth day prior to the 2016 General Election, pursuant to section 15-2, Hawaii County
Charter.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be sent to Scott T.
Nago, Chief Election Officer, State of Hawaii; and Stewart Maeda, Clerk of Hawaii County.
Dated at , Hawai`i, this day of , 20
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNCIL M MBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawaii
Hilo, Hawaii
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the
County of Hawaii on
ATTEST:
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON & PRESIDING OFFICER
ROLL CALL VOTE
AYES NOES ABS EX
CHUNG
DAVID
EOFF
ILAGAN
KANUHA
ONISHI
PALEKA
POINDEXTER
WILLE
Reference: C-918/Council
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