STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2009

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2178

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2178 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide the mayor of each county, in addition to the Merit Appeals Board, with the authority to appoint and remove that respective county's Personnel Director. 

     This measure also clarifies that the appointment and removal of the Personnel Director shall be as prescribed by the charter of each county.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Council of Mayors.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the authority granted by this measure is within the purview of the counties' executive and administrative structure and organization, and is supported by and consistent with the principle of county self-governance established in Article VIII, Section 2 of the Hawaii Constitution.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2178, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2178, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair