Request for support for Council Bill 197 (Nov. 6)

[Rob Tucker]

Aloha all,

Tiffany Edwards-Hunt called me asking for community support for Emily Naeole's Bill # 197. (see language below)

This bill will broaden language of county code to include all IRS recognized nonprofit community organizations as potential beneficiaries of county grants. Not just 501c3s. So subdivision associations like HPP, Fern Forest and Leilani (501c4) and others might benefit as well as Mainstreet Pahoa Assoc. (501c6). Many others too.

Request is for appearance and testimony at council chambers on Nov. 6th at 9 am in favor of bill 189. This is a committee hearing, not a council meeting.

Council testimony can also be delivered to the county clerk at: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us

or to Council Members:

J. Yoshimoto <jyoshimoto@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Emily Naeole <enaeole@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Dominic Yagong <dyagong@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Don Ikeda <dikeda@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Stacy Higa <shiga@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Bob Jacobson <jjaco@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Brenda Ford <bford@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Angel Pilago <kapilago@co.hawaii.hi.us>
Peter Hoffman <phoffmann@co.hawaii.hi.us>

Aloha,

Rob Tucker, VP
Mainstreet Pahoa Assoc.
965-1555

MEMORANDUM

TO: Pete Hoffmann, Chair
And Council Members

FROM: Emily Naeole, Council Member

DATE: October 25, 2007

RE: A Bill Amending Chapter 2, Article 25, Section 2-136 of the Hawai'i County Code Pertaining to Definitions Relating to the Appropriation of Funds to Non Profit Organizations

Attached is a bill amending Chapter 2, Article 25, Section 2-136 of the Hawai'i County Code pertaining to definitions relating to the appropriation of funds to non profit organizations, striking the reference to 501 © 3
organizations, specifically. This reference to a specific tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Code limits our ability to provide contingency relief funds to neighborhood watch and community association groups that may be, say, 501 © 4 or 501 © 6 non profit organizations.

EIN/tce


AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 25, SECTION 2-136, HAWAI'I COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), PERTAINING TO DEFINITIONS RELATING TO APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI'I:

SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to change the definition of a "nonprofit organization" in the definition section of the code relating to the appropriation of funds to nonprofit organizations.

The council finds it is too restrictive to specify a non profit must be a 501 © 3 organization. This specification inhibits the ability to provide contingency relief funds to neighborhood watch and community associations that may have tax exempt status, but are not 501 © 3 organizations.

SECTION 2. Chapter 2, article 25, section 2-136, Hawai'i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended by amending the definition of "nonprofit organization" to read as follows:


" (5) 'Nonprofit organization' means an organization organized for other than profit-making purposes and which has a current [501©3] tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Code."

SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material, and underscoring need not be included.

SECTION 4. 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 that 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 ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.


INTRODUCED BY: EMILY NAEOLE
COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI'I