2023-06-08 Salary Commission Minutes (Draft)

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Salary Commission June 8, 2023 "The commission shall review and compensate all county elected officials and appointed directors and deputy directors so that their total salaries and benefits have a reasonable relationship to compensation in the public and private sectors. The salary commission shall consult with those boards and commissions which have appointing authority for department heads." So, examples of that "shall" would be, for example, the Merit Appeals Board, right, which Glynis our wonderful secretary is also on that Merit Appeals Board elects, for example, Director Leopoldino. So, when he resigns at the end of June, there will be temporary assignment deputy director and, theoretically, a new one will need to be picked. So, this Salary Commission would be required to consult and confer with the Merit Appeals Board. The Fire Commission appoints the fire chief, the Police Commission appoints the chief of police—so these are all examples of appointing authorities that this Commission is going to be required by Charter, by law, to confer with. So, one easy way would be to come up with a letter seeking input and information laying out the parameters of the information that this Commission would like, such as provide us a recommendation, support that recommendation—what sort of support is this Commission wanting in that letter to be able to not have to, maybe, call them in and ask further questions, such as the Police Commission about, "How did you come up with this number?" Maybe you want specific information in that letter. So, those are all types of ideas of things that you can formulate, as a Commission, put it in the form of a letter. Our chair would finalize that with Glynis and myself and Director Leopoldino. And, if this Commission, as a whole, approved it, we could send it out to all of the appointing authorities that we are required, by law, to confer with, give them a deadline, expect a return and then review that communication. It would come in just like the Police Commission's communication did. You would have an opportunity to review that and decide, "Do we want to dig further?" Right We have provided you via Director Leopoldino and our fabulous friends over at the department of human resources, ample information about what the other jurisdictions do. I would recommend that you all consider reviewing the minutes from the process in 2018, which are available online from this, the Hawaii County Salary Commission, to see what the thought process was and how they proceeded. How they broke up the work. I'd also recommend that you take a look at the City and County of Honolulu. I have provided some of that information to you guys. That's an excellent current roadmap to see what they did, how they did it. They had permitted interactive groups. See some of the concerns raised by the public to keep that—take that into consideration as you proceed. So, those are all things that I think you guys should consider utilizing as resources—at your fingertips. And I recognize, as volunteers, this puts a burden on you to get that done on your Page 19