2022-07-22 Police Commission Regular Minutes

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Hawaii Police Commission Regular Session Minutes July 22, 2022 Page 8 Chair Bertsch stated that he's trying to establish a calendar. Come September 1, 2022, the commission needs to formally affirm the Deputy Chief as Acting Chief. He also wants to establish a special task force working group for the Chief's selection. This could be all members of the commission, this will enable them the authority to hold special meetings. He wants to set up a timeline so that the commissioners can plan ahead and be available. Commissioner Quartararo asked if this task force will require a quorum at each meeting in order to conduct business. DCC Kekai stated they would need to meet all Sunshine Law requirements. Chair Bertsch stated the task force wouldn't vote on anything, their responsibility would be similar to any sub -committee. They would chart the course, administer the course, do the interview process and make a recommendation on the selection. This recommendation of selection would then come before the full commission and the commission would collectively vote on that recommendation. DCC Kekai stated that you can't have the full commission. If it's going to be the full commission, then you would just have a regular meeting. If you're creating a permitted interaction group, which this task force sounds like, it would have to be less than a quorum, only four members could sit on it. Chair Bertsch stated that he wants all commissioners involved, they would just change the name from the task force to the commission. They would set a calendar for that purpose only. Chair Bertsch read County Charter Section 7-2.3. (d) The Chief of Police shall have had a minimum of five years of training and experience in Law enforcement work, including at least three years in a responsible administrative capacity. He asked if the commission would like to see any additional minimum requirements. There were none, subsection D stands. According to the Police Commission Rules, the vacancy needs to be advertised for a minimum of three weeks. Chair Bertsch asked the commission if three weeks is enough or if would they like to post it for four weeks. Commissioner Springer made a motion to post the vacancy for four weeks, seconded by Commissioner Sur, all in favor, no oppositions, motion passed. Chair Bertsch stated that he will have a discussion with Human Resources to see how they can meet Commissioner Quartararo's suggestion to broadly publicize the position and do a national search. Recess called at 10:55 a.m. The meeting reconvened at 11:07 a.m. Discussion on creating a sub -committee to review recruitment, retention, and resignations: Commissioner Quartararo stated that given the work and time they need to put into the selection of the Chief of Police if the commission wants to go ahead with this, they could keep it as a task force or not even that. After the selection of the Chief,