HomeMy WebLinkAboutComm No 0018.02 - Transmit CA-4 Draft 2 for First ReadingDouglass Shipman Adams
Chairperson
Jennifer Leilani Zelko-Schlueter
Vice Chairperson
2018-2020
HAWAII COUNTY
CHARTER COMMISSION
Date: January 14, 2019
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 -4, Draft 2, for First Reading; Proposed Amendment to Section
6-8.3 of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018 Edition), Relating to the Powers,
Duties, and Functions of the Director of the Department of Research and
Development; Submitted by Commissioner Galimba
Please find attached CA -4, Draft 2, as properly formatted for First Reading.
CA -4 was amended per the contents of Communication No. 17.1 (Page 2; Item 2(a)) and
passed on Initial Approval on January 11, 2019 (reconvened December 14, 2018,
Commission meeting).
Should you have any questions, please contact our Commission Analyst, Jon Henricks.
DSA/jdh
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Comm. No. 18.2
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. CA -4, DRAFT 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
Section 1. Article VI, Chapter 8, Section 6-8.3, of the Hawai`i County Charter
(2018 Edition), is amended to read as follows:
"Section 6-8.3. Powers, Duties and Functions.
The director of research and development shall:
(a) Collect and develop data necessary for managerial and legislative
decision-making, and program and policy-making.
(b) [Provide staff leadership for] In collaboration and coordination with
federal and state agencies as well as the private sector, advance public and
private development programs, enterprises and plans, [including
economic, social and cultural proposals, which] that enhance and improve
the [county community.] county's environmental, cultural, community,
and economic sustainability and resilience.
[{e Coordinate informational and regulatory knowledge of all federal and state
grant in aid participation programs which affect the county.]"
Section 2. Charter material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken through.
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 brackets, bracketed and stricken material, or 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.