CERTIFICATE OF RESULTS
2016 CHARTER AMENDMENTS
COUNTY OF KAUA’I
I, Jade K. Fountain-Tanigawa, County Clerk of the County of Kaua’i, do hereby certify that the following Charter Amendments were duly adopted by a majority of votes cast on the questions at the General Election held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, in the County of Kaua’i:
RELATING TO CORRECTING GENDER NEUTRALITY, GRAMMATICAL, SPELLING, AND FORMATTING ERRORS
“Shall the charter be amended throughout to ensure that its language is to the greatest extent possible gender neutral and to make changes to spelling, capitalization, punctuation, formatting, and grammar?”
Purpose: The purpose of this amendment is to correct grammatical and formatting errors in the document, without altering the meaning or purpose of its content. This amendment also seeks gender neutrality by changing terms such as “councilman” to “councilperson” and “chairman” to “chair.”
YES 15,368
NO 7,861
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RELATING TO THE DUTIES OF THE FIRE CHIEF
“Shall the duties of the fire chief be clarified to include duties currently performed such as addressing hazardous materials, emergency medical services, and ocean safety, and shall the reference to the mayor’s authority to assign duties be removed?”
Purpose: This amendment would appropriately describe the current functions of the fire chief and the Fire Department, as they relate to duties and authority.
YES 16,182
NO 6,985
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RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
“Shall a zoning board of appeals be established to hear appeals from decisions of the planning director and to conduct evidentiary hearings at the request of the planning commission?”
Purpose: This amendment establishes a Zoning Board of Appeals that would hear appeals of the planning director’s decisions regarding violations of the zoning and subdivision ordinance, thereby eliminating the need to hire hearings officers to perform this duty.
YES 15,197
NO 6,928
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RELATING TO THE CIVIL DEFENSE AGENCY
“Shall the county Civil Defense Agency be renamed the Emergency Management Agency and its organization clarified consistent with state law?”
Purpose: This amendment seeks to establish an administrator of the County Emergency Management Agency, and ensures that the Charter language is consistent with State law by renaming the Civil Defense Agency to the Emergency Management Agency.
YES 15,658
NO 7,189
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RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A PERMANENT CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION
“Shall the Charter Review Commission be an ongoing commission?”
Purpose: This amendment seeks to remove the expiration date of the Charter Review Commission and eliminates the 10-year intervals between the creation of the commissions, thereby establishing a permanent Charter Review Commission.
YES 11,113
NO 10,479
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The aforementioned duly adopted Charter Amendments are published in summary form. Pursuant to Article XXIV of The Charter of the County of Kaua’i, the entire text of duly adopted Charter Amendments can be viewed online at www.kauai.gov/elections or by contacting the Office of the County Clerk, Elections Division at (808) 241-4800.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the County of Kaua’i, State of Hawai’i, to be affixed on this 29th day of November 2016.
/s/ JADE K. FOUNTAIN-TANIGAWA County Clerk, County of Kaua’i
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