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Honorable Dixie Kaetsu February 27, 2006 Page 2 and Hawaii County's first official risk manager will begin employment on April 1, 2006. The Corporation Counsel has committed to working with the Risk Management Division to further implement a comprehensive risk management program for our County. To this end, our attorneys will continue to examine and evaluate areas of risk within their client departments and make recommendations thereon, for the purpose of sharing data and recommendations with the Risk Management Division. The Corporation Counsel has increased the frequency and scope of training offered our client departments and County personnel over the past few years. Our latest aggressive project envisions the delivery of college-level instruction in civil rights and constitutional law to Hawaii County Police Department ranking field officers. Deputy Corporation Counsel Michael Udovic, an instructor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the Hawaii Community College, is finalizing our initial course outline and syllabus. 2. The Office should continue efforts to create an office manager position. Rationale: An office manager will relieve attorneys from time- consuming staff management responsibilities, allowing them to concentrate on legal matters, and enhance support staff efficiency. The recommendation has been implemented. In January 2003, after working with the Department of Civil Service and through reallocations of existing positions, our office "created" an office manager position, by reallocating our Supervising Legal Clerk I to a Supervising Legal Clerk II (SLC II). The SLC II oversees all support staff in all divisions of our office, including our Family Support Division offices in Hllo and Kona. The SLC II tasks have included refinement of our records management system (BRAIN), assisting in personnel issues, leading our website creation team, participating in our document imaging core group (our office will implement new document imaging software in April 2006), as well as other ongoing projects and intervention with Family Support Division systems and personnel issues. The introduction of our office manager was accomplished without creating a new position (i.e., we simply adjusted our existing staff), and with a very minimal increase in our salaries and wages account in our annual budget.