Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-22


elected officers below through whom they but
whom they havco control Contemplate board OF supervisors
under the Convention charter merely enacng ordinances and
approprating with nothing the enforcement
Of the ordinances the expenditure of the moneyeSe being
committed exclusively independent elective officers such the
Superintendent OF City Works Sheriff City and County Attorney
etc. successful organism should have single controlling
head In general only the policy determining officers the
should be elected and they should have appointment
OF the heads OF the executive departments The public
keep close touch with control direct the administration
of executive departments They should look their substitute
the Board of Supervisors beard of control do that and
should hold them responsible The LITTER be held response
bic unless they have the appointment of the heads of departments
The AUDITOR by OF his function OF checking others might
we'll i'll order TO be independent OF the Others be made
ception to be elected by the people.
Accomplishment of results with busneSS-ke efficiency and
economy should be the aim III city The City and
County analogous business corporation The voNrs
the stockholders They dividends in the shape of salts
factory public reasonable Being like the stock
holders of corporation conduct the business
themselves they elect Board of Supervisors like the board OF
directors of corporation to conduct the business for them
The board might appoint manager. like sugar plantation
Manager That would be the manager plan b) The board
might appoint heads of departments of department
That the plan here recommended the cmanager plan
is not adopted c The voters or stockholders might provide
that each member of the board of supervisors directors should
be the head of department That would be the commission
government plant Cd The board might be permitted APP
point any heads OF departments such themselves,
but the stockholders might elect all such heads sep
aate officers independently OF the board and of each other
Th the Convention charter plan Plans (a) (b and (c)
all have the advantages of the short ballot and uncaon of
powers with simplicity faction and conpcuousness of response
by PIN Id has the disadvantage of the long ballot and
separation of powers, with complication of action and diffusion
of responsibility Plan (a has the greatest simplicity the great
coordination of executive action and the least burden the
supervisors in looking after details Plan (b in
these respects and plan 60 the last of these three plans
in these respects Plan (c has particular disadvantage these
respects in that the Supervisors executive officers in their in
dvdua capacities independent of the Supervisors their
a
Yo committee recommends that special effort be
h0ted the single feature of the short bdot s Heaon of
powers. Your committee feels that if nothing else than this
the of Improvement of the cristg charter be
pshcd at the coming session of the Legislature long step
advance aiH haze been made This may be effected BY brief
ameNdaory Act
In connection with the essential feature of tic short ballot
with un6caton of powers less important variable
lures should be considered
(a) Number of Supervisors This is usually ive for
large cities That the number in the Ach and Municipal Re-
search Club charters also the Counties of Maui Kauai
1t is often three in small cities Occasionally,
nine While your committee inclined favor fye being
large enough be representative and too large be
besoe great for departing from the present
number 1t is also in the County of Hawaii.
(b) Elected at large from districts Almost universally
heyare elected large This tends emphasize the unity Of
the City and County and to prevent porarre methods and
usually takes bigger and better get elected large than
by wards districts Elections made large in the Conve
ton, Ach and Municipal Research Club charters However
is recognized by experts that the size of the electorate
conditions be such justify elections from large districts
instead of from the entire City and County and thus diminish the
expense and burden of the campaign the candidates Your
committee while believing that fra the elections should
be at large but the conditions such
rant trial of eectng Supervisor large and half of the
remainder from each Of the two Representative Districts They
have all been elected large under the present charter In the
first valid County Act that of 1905 those for the County of Oahu
elected large three from the City of Honolulu pro-
per- and each from Ewa Waanae Waiau and the two
Kooaus In the County of Hawai- they elected two from
North and South Ho, and from each of five other subdv
ons but in 1909 this changed large and three from
each of the two Representative Districts In the Counties of
Maui and Kauai, they elected, from each of FIVE dis
cs but in 1911 they all made elective large in the
County of Maui They still elected by districts Kauai
c Terms of office These vary from years They
have been hitherto the Counties City and County
here The tendency to engen them under the system
because it safe TO do and because grlter
tnuiy of government Four years term