2023-06-08 Salary Commission Minutes (Draft)

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Salary Commission Communications (Item 5) June 8, 2023 Communication No. 23-01, From Police Commission Chair Rick Robinson, Dated May 18, 2023, Stating They Are In Support Of A Salary Increase For The Hawaii County Police Chief And Deputy Chief Informational Briefing By Deputy Corporation Counsel Dakota "Cody" Frenz - The Informational Briefing May Include, But Is Not Limited To, The Following: Expectations And Responsibilities Of The Salary Commission; Salary Information And Practices Informational Briefing By Director Of Human Resources Waylen L. K. Leopoldino - The Informational Briefing May Include, But Is Not Limited To, The Following: Salary Ordinance Of 2023 (Ordinance No. 23-46); Compensation Plan For The County Of Hawaii (As Of July 2022); County Of Hawaii Pay Plan For Executives And Elected Officials (Effective March 1, 2018); Collective Bargaining Agreements ACTING CHR. LEOPOLDINO: Thank you. We're moving on to agenda Item number 5, "Communications." MS. GREENBAUM: They're requesting a 24 percent increase for the police chief and the deputy police chief. But our budget increase is only 5 percent. While I was looking at some of the other counties numbers, it looks as though the police chief request might be reasonable but not necessarily the deputy. Seems like the deputy's request it—his salary is only slightly less than the police chief. And in other counties, it looks like that's not the case (inaudible). I'm not too sure. MS. FRENZ: This is Deputy Corporation Counsel Cody Frenz. Just to clarify regarding—when you indicated what are—the maximum is, I'm not aware that there's a maximum 5 percent that's completely within the jurisdiction and decision-making of this Commission, as a whole, as to what it were to choose to put a particular department head or director at. I think part of the process would include, maybe, obtaining conferral once this Commission has put more thoughts and inquiry into where it might be headed to confirm with the director of finance that those numbers are, in fact, attainable for example. But I'm not aware of a 5 percent cap as far as the budget only allows that. So, I just wanted to clarify that. MS. GREENBAUM: Yeah. No, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean that there's a 5 percent cap, but there is a proposal of a 5.8 percent increase in the next fiscal year budget. And I'm sure with that increase, they're going to allocate it based on the different departments. But the increase in this particular department or in this particular request is about 24 percent. So, the number seemed a little bit higher than it seemed a little high. Page 13