2024-07-31 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 31, 2024 And then the final thing I would just offer is that this is three people doing the work and it hasn't even been six months yet. So, I anticipate that we'll continue be able to continue to bring in those dollars to, again, be sustainable—but, more importantly, bring in capacity and resources to our County to make efforts towards (inaudible). MR. NELSON: So, just curious, where are the sources to find the grants? I mean, where do you go hunting for? MS. MORRISON: We have a good partnership, actually, with our Department of Research and Development in that space but also I'm constantly that's part of my background—is a bunch of notifications when new opportunities come around. And then, I work to look at our Climate Action Plan and think, "Okay, this would help implement that Action Plan"—does it involve another agency, connecting with them, seeing if it's an opportunity that we can pursue that's sort of the process that we've been going through. There is some sense of urgency just because eventually those great funds are going to run out, so we do want to continue to pursue those as aggressively as we can. MS. NAMAHOE: Hi, this is Commissioner Namahoe. So I'm looking at your maximizing opportunities page. How I understood you presenting this information this is kind of—this is the baby you folks have come up with in the last six months. Yeah, these are the priorities. When we look at what's in the County Charter now of how large OSCER is, there's so much room for (inaudible) that from this—and mental health and world peace and on and on—and new currencies and (inaudible) things. I get it. I get it. I was scared to see what this would look like. But then, now, I start getting into being the detail nerd that I am. When I see things like clean heavy-duty vehicles replacement—does that mean that now Transit comes to you to say, out of that million dollars, I need you to pay for all of the new solar panels on the top of the bus roof or whatever it is. They're going to now—are you the clearinghouse for that— MS. hat MS. MORRISON: No. MS. NAMAHOE: is that the thought? MS. MORRISON: No. So that project was developed with our Department of Public Works, and Parks and Rec., again, I think one of their vehicles was in there. Again, looking at vehicles that they were already looking at prioritizing replacement for. And so, that project is very specific to those particular vehicles that were identified through those other offices. It is not available for any kind of—it has a very specific purpose. But I would say that we do—and this is the trick, right—is we are a small team. And so, we have to be very cognizant of that capacity and work with our departments to build their capacity, if they need to. Page 15