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<br />Merit Appeals Board April 24, 2019 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: All in favor? <br /> <br />AYES: Board Members Chillingworth, Tam, and Chair Namahoe – 3 <br />NOES: None. <br />ABSENT: None <br />EXCUSED: None. <br /> <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Thank you. <br /> <br />MR. BRILHANTE: Thank you. <br /> <br />Communication(s) (Item 5) <br /> <br />Communication No. 19-03, received on March 19, 2019, from Hawaiʻi County Salary <br />Commission Chair George W. Campbell, inviting the Merit Appeals Board to do a <br />presentation before their Commission concerning factors they should consider and any <br />recommendations regarding the Board’s respective department head and deputy salaries <br /> <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Okay, so—Communication—so, we’re at Section 5 of the agenda. <br /> <br />MR. BRILHANTE: Would you allow me to speak to that— <br /> <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Please do. <br /> <br />MR. BRILHANTE: —briefly? So, as you may know or may not know, the department head <br />and deputy’s salaries for the County of Hawaiʻi as well as the administrative staff and the county <br />council members are set by the Hawaiʻi County Salary Commission. <br /> <br />I sit on that Commission as an Ex-Officio member so I can provide information, but I don’t <br />partake in any of the voting as it relates to whether or not they can increase a salary, they can <br />decrease a salary, or they can maintain status quo—and that’s completely their decision. I just <br />provide information on an “as needed” or “as requested” basis. <br /> <br />The Commission had a meeting about three months ago, and I think— <br /> <br />MS. YAMADA: Yeah. <br /> <br />MR. BRILHANTE: Yeah. They decided and they approved a plan to conduct a review for each <br />of the department heads and deputies, agencies, departments—salaries. So, they sent a request to <br />each of the—to the administration regarding the department heads that are appointed by the <br />mayor. And they also sent separate information request to each of the departments which are <br />supervised by a commission and in that regards that would be the fire—the Fire Commission; for <br />police, Police Commission; for liquor, the Liquor Commission; and for HR, the Merit Appeals <br />Board. Those are the departments that are supervised by commissioners. <br />Page 13 <br /> <br /> <br />