HomeMy WebLinkAboutComm No 0047.01 - Transmit CA-29 Draft 2 for First ReadingDouglass Shipman Adams
Chairperson
Jennifer Leilani Zelko-Schlueter
Vice Chairperson
Date: April 29, 2019
2018-2020
HAWAII COUNTY
CHARTER COMMISSION
To: Members of the Hawai`i County Charter Commission
From: Douglass Shipman Adams, Chair
Hawai`i County Charter Commission
William Carthage Bergin
Michelle Galimba
Paul K. Hamano
Kevin D. Hopkins
Bobby Jean Akane Leithead Todd
Sarah H. Rice
Christopher John Imiloa Roehrig
Marcia A.K. Saquing
Donna Mae Springer
RE: Transmitting CA -29, Draft 2 for First Reading; Proposed Amendment to Section
10-6; Submitted by Commissioner Galimba
Please find attached CA -29, Draft 2, as properly formatted for First Reading.
CA -29 was amended by adding "emergency expenditures" to the list of criteria to be used
when prioritizing capital improvements.
CA -29, Draft 2, passed Initial Approval on April 25, 2019, and will be placed on the May
10, 2019, meeting agenda for First Reading.
Should you have any questions, please contact our Commission Analyst, Jon Henricks.
DSA/jdh
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Comm. No. 47.1
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. CA -29, DRAFT 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
Section 1. Article X, Section 10-6, of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018
Edition), is amended by amending Subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) The capital budget shall contain at least the following:
(1) A simple, clear, general summary of the detailed contents of the capital
budget.
(2) The capital improvements pending or proposed to be undertaken within
the ensuing fiscal year, together with the estimated cost of each
improvement, the estimated operating cost, and the pending or proposed
method of financing it. Capital improvements shall be prioritized based on
criteria aligned with the general plan, community development plans,
emergency expenditures and other pertinent functional plans.
(3) Capital expenditures to be financed from current revenues in the ensuing
fiscal year."
Section 2. New charter material is underscored. When revising, compiling, or
printing these charter provisions for inclusion in the Charter of the County of Hawai`i
(2020), the revisor need not include the underscoring.
Section 3. The revisor of the charter shall renumber charter article, chapter,
and section numbers and any cross references thereto pursuant to amendments approved
by the electorate.
Section 4. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect
other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the
invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this ordinance are
declared to be severable.
Section 5. This amendment shall take effect upon approval by the electorate.