2023-06-08 Salary Commission Minutes (Draft)

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Salary Commission June 8, 2023 MS. FRENZ: DCC Cody. I'm not asking you to do either. I'm it's merely a communication from one appointing authority to the Salary Commission. It's for your information. It's merely a communication for your consideration and discussion. So, you don't need to table it. You don't need to take any action on it. It's just merely a communication on your agenda. MS. NAKAMA: Thank you, Cody. MR. NELSON: Yeah, this is Commissioner Nelson. So, yeah, I do think this is just a piece of information. This is one salary out of the many that need to be looked at. So, I think it's just they're here first in line. Okay. And they're making (inaudible) notice, but we got to look at all of them. And then, at that point, I think it's, kind of, like, okay—do we want to just focus on just the police commissioner or we want to look at everybody. I think we need to look at everybody. I mean, your idea that we need to get the finance person in that's a good one. We may need that, but we're not there yet. We need, kind of, need to go down the path. So, good thought, but I think we're not there yet. MS. GREENBAUM: This is Commissioner Greenbaum, District 9. Historically, when I joined the board, it was just regrouping. And then, thereafter, we had the COVID issue. So, I really wasn't able to partake in the board as I feel we're going to be doing moving forward. But, if I recall, I thinkI don't recall in the brief times that we've met in regards to increases for the different departments—we took it as a whole. I think we took it by departments. DCC Cody, could you tell me if I'm out of line? MS. FRENZ: Sure. This is DCC Cody. I think, realistically, I think Commissioner Nelson meant more so we'll look at it all, maybe collectively. I don't want so to speak for him. But as opposed to just this one, right now. Ultimately, you are all free to decide. And part of my conversation with you all, a little bit later—we'll be talking about whether or not we create a Permitted Interactive Group to help disseminate some of the mini tasks before this Commission, which I'm going to cover I'll say shortly. But you will be required to look at, as part of your duties as Salary Commissioners here—all of these salaries that are up for potential increases or decreases, right, theoretically, under the Charter. But there are plenty. And how you all choose, collectively, to tackle that job is really up to you guys. It would make sense to look at, typically, the deputy director or the number 2 -the number 2 positions in every department that has 1 and 2—and which is almost all the number 2 salary is Page 17