2023-07-11 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 11, 2023 MS. FRENZ: Yes. This is DCC Cody. So, part of the paper clip item that you should all, hopefully, be looking at—on my paper clip, the very last page, is a list of all of the people that you will be required to confer with, so you know who needs to get this. And then, Commissioner Greenbaum, what I can do along with Glynis is, I can take notes. So, for example, if you all can discuss today—here are the things that we want to include in our letter. I can take those notes and work with Glynis and/or Director Patel to formalize that. And then, if this entire Commission decides on these are the things that we want to ask for then I can formalize that in a letter with Chair Pavao, who can then disseminate that with Glynis' assistance. So, if today, you guys know, for example—and it could may very well be that we have to send a follow-up letter depending on what you get back from various departments heads or appointing authorities for additional information. But, if we can list out some of the things that you'd like to have now, the more the merrier. And if you decide that you want more down the road, we can cross that bridge. But these are the 18 different department heads or appointing authorities that we need to confer with. And if the original email that Glynis sent back on March of 2019, if you guys are all okay with those items and want to add to them, let's include those. And I can work with Glynis, Director Patel, and Chair Pavao to formalize that in a written request. MR. PATEL: Chair, if I can this is Acting Director Patel. So, what I'm hearing based on the discussion is that the Commissioners want to, at least, have some baseline information to figure out how they want to move forward. I think for right now, we're on agenda Item number 5 regarding creation of the permitted interaction groups. If we're moving on to Item number 6 to discuss the baseline information, then perhaps we can table the existing agenda item to be called at a later date—if the Commission decides to go that route then we move on to agenda Item number 6. You do have some information that was provided to all of you already. You might consider discussing the information you currently have and then having that discussion about the additional information you want to ask for. Then that would help inform the letter that goes out to all the appointing authorities for the additional information. MS. NAMAHOE: Commissioner Namahoe agrees with that. CHR. PAVAO: If we can have a motion or consensus on creating an interaction group, we can table that for now and come back to it later, I guess. So, we could move on to the next Item number 6 on the agenda, which is discussion about the appropriate action. Page 8