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January 21, 1997
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TO: All Councilmembers
FROM: Donald Ikeda, County Clerk
SUBJ: Council Rules of Procedure
Attached is a list of proposed changes to the Council Rules of
Procedure, which reflects comments made at the December 18, 1996
Council meeting, for your review. These will be submitted and
included in a new resolution which will amend the current Rules.
Should you have any additional changes to be made, please prepare
and provide your written amendments to be reviewed and discussed at
the next Council meeting scheduled for January 22, 1997.
Thereafter, the new resolution will be prepared and presented for
the Council's consideration at the next regularly scheduled Council
meeting.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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PROPOSED CHANGES
COUNCIL RULES OF PRJCEDURE
Page 1 - (1) insert - in the County Councilroom
Page 4 - (1) insert - until a temporary chair can be
selected; delete - and; add - The Chair; add In the absence of
the chairperson and vice chairperson, the council shall elect
from among its members a temporary presiding officer.
RULES OF PROCEDURE
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
COUNTY 7F HAWAII
Rule 1
COUNCIL MEETINGS
1. The council shall hold regular meetings for the
transaction of business in the County Councilroom on the first and
third Wednesday of each month or on the following day if such
Wednesday be a public holiday.
2. Special meetings may be called at any time by the council
chairperson or a majority of the council in accordance with the
provision of Section 13-20(c) of the County Charter.
3. The council chairperson shall be authorized to schedule
or reschedule the time, date and/or subject matter of its regular
or special meetings and to publish public notice upon the giving
of siz (6) days notice to the public and councilmembers. The
chairperson shall promptly notify all councilmembers and the
county clerk by written memorandum as to the scheduling or
rescheduling of regular or special meetings.
Rule 4
OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES
1. Presiding Officer. The chairperson of the council shall
be the presiding officer of the council. In the absence of the
chairperson, the vice-chairperson shall preside. In the absence
of the vice-chairperson, the chairperson of the Committee on
Finance shall preside until a temporarv chair can be selected
[and] The Chair shall have the right to vote as other members;
however, when the chairperson is temporarily unable to perform
his/her duties, the vice-chairperson shall have all the powers and
be subject to all the duties of such chairperson. In the absence
of the chairperson and vice chairperson the council shall elect
from among its members a temporary presiding officer
It shall be the duty of the chairperson:
(a) To open the meeting of the council at the appointed
hour by taking the chair and calling the meeting to
order.
(b) To announce the business before the council in the
order prescribed by the rules.
(c) To authenticate by his/her signature all acts of and
doings by the council when necessary.
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