2023-07-11 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 11, 2023 on from the community. But their approach you can even access their findings of fact, conclusions of law, which we will all need to draft, too—which means me—with your assistance before you can even take action, if you consider to take action. So, all of that, Commissioner Nakama, is available. If you need any help getting there, I can show you this afternoon or when we're done here today. I can show you exactly how to access all of that. It's publicly available. MS. NAKAMA: Commissioner Nakama. I was just wondering if members of this Commission has taken a look at past records and this is why I wanted to share that piece of paper that I've gotten. If you haven't, it's a wide array of information that we need to look at because things were discussed back then, and maybe we can take their information and incorporate it with what we have in front of us and see if it makes sense of what was discussed prior to us coming on board. CHR. PAVAO: Yeah. I recommend that's a good idea. I've reviewed most of the past decisions and minutes that are online on the County's website. You can look at the County, on the boards and commissions, and look at the salary commission. You can go back and look at all the previous decisions. MS. NAKAMA: So, I was wondering if what you have in front of you, right now, Chairman Pavao this is Teresa Nakama—is what we're talking about and was already discussed or is that salary increase that they talked in the past? CHR. PAVAO: This is in the past. This is, like, I don't know years ago when Harry Kim was mayor. There was a lot of public outcry about this because it was significant raises. But I think the salary commission MS. NAKAMA: So, are they receiving those new salary now? I mean, because it was automatic or they didn't receive those salaries? CHR. PAVAO: This is probably the current salaries, I think. MS. FRENZ: DCC Cody. This is not. I'm not even sure to be honest— CHR. onest CHR. PAVAO: I don't know if that was approved or not. MS. FRENZ: I don't even know if this is for the Island of Hawaii. I don't even know. This is not accurate. This is not current—put it that way. This is not what the these individuals on this are not currently getting these salaries. So, this may have been from two or three prior actions before the 2018. `Cause 2018 is even higher than this already. This is not accurate. This is not current. MS. NAKAMA: Oh, so that just Page 25