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Proposed amendments to
the Honolulu City Charter

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1. Shall the Revised City Charter be amended to:

(1) Place the employee positions, other than the Executive Secretary position, for the Neighborhood Commission within the civil service system; and

(2) Confer civil service status on the qualified incumbents occupying those employee positions without necessity of examination?

2. Shall the Revised City Charter be amended to require at least five of the nine appointees to the Neighborhood Commission to have served at least one full term on a neighborhood board?

3. Shall the Revised City Charter be amended to authorize the appointment of a temporary replacement for a Councilmember who, as a member of the military reserve or guard, is called to active duty for a period in excess of 180 consecutive days out of the State of Hawaii?

4. Shall the Revised City Charter be amended as follows:

(1) To specify that a charter commission be appointed after November 1 of every year ending in a "4", but before the immediate following February 1;

(2) To make an exception for the 2005 charter commission, which is intended to be appointed by December 1, 2004; and

(3) To make conforming amendments?