HomeMy WebLinkAboutCA-0017 - Proposed Amendment to Establish a Disaster and Emergency Fund- formattedCHARTER AMENDMENT NO. CA -17
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
Section 1. Article X of the Hawai`i County Charter (2018 Edition), is amended
by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"Section 10- . Disaster and Emergency Fund.
In adopting each year's fiscal operating budget, the council shall appropriate a
minimum of one per cent of the certified real property tax revenues to a fund
known as the disaster and emergency fund. Additional funds may be deposited
into the disaster and emergency fund from state and federal grants, the federal
emergency management agency, private sources, and any other source of revenue.
Such appropriation shall continue until a minimum of $20,000,000 is accumulated
in the fund. Use of the funds for any of the purposes listed in this section may be
permitted even if the target goal of $20,000,000 is not met.
Q Moneys in the disaster and emergency fund shall be utilized only for the
following purposes:
(1) Repair of county facilities and infrastructure damaged by a natural or
human -caused disaster or emergency;
(2) Cleaning of county property, including roads, drainage and sewage
systems, damaged by a natural or human -caused disaster or other
emergencies when such action serves a public purpose;
f3) Providing immediate response for services to deal with public health and
safety risks due to a natural or human -caused disaster or emergency in the
form of personnel, equipment, materials, supplies and service contracts;
(4) Matching federal, state or private grants-in-aid individually or in any
combination to develop or restore public property to a safe and useable
condition.
f5) Paying for operational expenses of the county after a disaster or
emergency when the county is unable to realize revenue at sufficient
levels due to the disaster or emergency;
(6) Paying for acquisition of property to mitigate future potential disasters or
emergencies; and
(7) Paying for administrative expenses, which shall not exceed five percent
except as indicated in (5) above. For the purposes of this section,
administrative expenses are defined as staff or contracted salaries and
related fringe benefits.
If the county should receive reimbursement of funds for money advanced by the
disaster and emergency fund, those funds shall be deposited into the disaster and
emergency fund.
is _11 The director of finance shall administer the disaster and emergency fund, which
shall include investment of the fund."
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.
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