Ron Menor emerged as among the most influential — if not the busiest — of the nine Honolulu City Council members under a revamped committee assignment plan released by new Council Chairman Ikaika Anderson on Wednesday.

Menor chairs the newly constituted Zoning, Planning and Housing Committee, which merges what was formerly the Zoning and Housing Committee with the former Planning Committee.

Menor also remains chairman of the Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee.

The odd person out appears to be Councilwoman Kymberly Pine, who had chaired the Zoning Committee. Anderson previously chaired the Planning Committee.

Council leadership and committee assignments were made this week as the April 13 election of Tommy Waters to the Council Fourth District was certified and Waters was sworn in. Waters won a run-off election against former incumbent Trevor Ozawa after the Hawaii Supreme Court invalidated Ozawa’s 22-point election win in November.

The Council’s planning and zoning functions are among the panel’s most powerful.

Menor told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Thursday that none of the other Council members expressed interest in leading the Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee.

Councilman Joey Manahan continues to chair the Budget Committee while Councilman Brandon Elefante retains his title as chairman of the Transportation Committee, Councilwoman Carol Fukunaga continues to lead the Public Infrastructure, Technology and Sustainability Committee and Councilwoman Heidi Tsuneyoshi still leads the Parks, Community Services and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee.

Pine runs the Business, Economic Development and Tourism Committee while Waters heads the Public Safety and Welfare Committee.

Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi, who had served as interim Council chairwoman since January, leads no committee but is the Council’s vice chairwoman.

Asked by the Star-Advertiser to comment on being dropped as Zoning chairwoman, Pine voiced displeasure that the men on the Council were holding the key committee leadership roles.

“None of the women were trusted to manage and chair the critical Zoning, Executive Matters, Planning or Budget committees, or to remain chair of the Council,” Pine said. “One man is chair of essentially three committees.”

While Kobayashi is vice chairwoman and Fukunaga the floor leader, they “are secondary positions and do not guarantee any influence but allows the ruling male coalition to say, ‘Hey, look at us, we like women as leaders as long as they are secondary to us.’”

Kobayashi introduced the resolution installing Anderson as chairman Wednesday and all nine Council members, including Pine, supported it.