2023-06-08 Salary Commission Minutes (Draft)

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Salary Commission June 8, 2023 So, for example, let's say you created a PIG and it was going to task itself—PIG Number 1, was going to task itself with tackling the obtaining of information for the first ten job descriptions listed here from the mayor down they're going to cover the first ten. This Commission would, theoretically, have already drafted a letter that it would send out to the appointing authorities and maybe that permitted interactive group that tackles the first ten on here or five—or whatever it were to decide as a Commission in the adoption and creation of this group were to then reach out to the necessary and appropriate appointing authorities—do some information gathering as to, "Well, let's look at all of the other jurisdictions for mayor. Let's look at all the other jurisdictions for prosecuting attorney"—and evaluate and gather information collectively as that group, which would then report back to the Commission as a whole and say, "As to these positions, this is the information we got. Here's how we got it" and provide that information, collectively, to the bigger group. Ultimately, only as a bigger group can you guys all decide what you would like to do, if any, as to those positions. So, think of it as separate homework projects and how those groups are going to help tackle the homework for the collective group. MS. NAKAMA: So, as ITeresa, District 9—as I understand it, we would be allowed to research and seek other parties and do background check on the figures of salary, then come back to the Commission and do a report on our findings? MS. FRENZ: YeahI mean, some of the words that you use cause me a little concern, but that's probably the attorney in me. So, I apologize. But—so the permitted interac—and this is the struggle, Commissioner Nakama, is I would have covered this in our training beforehand, right. So, I know everybody else has, kind of, heard the lecture on how the permitted interactive groups work. But you can—in a perfect world, this information as a whole would make its request for specific types of information, and formulate a letter that everyone on this Commission was agreeable with that would then be disseminated. And, for example, the permitted interactive group members could take a meeting with, say, the police commission. They could show up to the next police commission hearing and say, "We'd like to have a conversation with you. We've created this permitted interactive group. We want to talk to this commission as whole and talk about the letter that you submitted." Or because the fire commission hadn't submitted one, go to the fire commission next meeting—next appropriate meeting—and say, "We've gotten a letter from the police commission, where are you guys at? So, we'd like you to submit a letter to us. This is what we're thinking. We are a permitted interactive group, we will report back to our Commission." So, you can take independent meetings with the appointing authorities. You can do that collectively as a group. You can, amongst the three or four of you, then break up your list even furtherI will take the chief of police, so the police commission; the other person will take the fire commission. That really is up to you and I don't want to—I want to make sure I stay in my Page 31