2024-07-31 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 31, 2024 And one of those was an example that he spoke to me about solar system that wasn't operating at a facility that he was at—and the only way that we knew that is because he was asking questions of the facilities manager. And so, things like that, that don't necessarily fall under the Auditor's purview, but things that we could help when it comes to our energy efficiency, renewable energies—those are opportunities that we see with the departments. But we don't have the—it's not really within our mission to go into the departments and find those opportunities for carpooling or paper—saving paper from being printed those kind of things—that's really an operational process for them. MR. RIORDAN: But I guess my question is, is that they're not going to change unless someone else comes forward and says, "It's in the County's best interest to be not to be doing these things" because, otherwise, they would have changed already. So, we're saying the Auditor's the person that's going to be doing that as opposed to your department? MS. MORRISON: I was just mentioning that opportunity. Really, that's an administrative priority, how are we prioritizing sustainability across the County—and the Roth Administration has been very progressive in making those efforts. And the other thing I would offer is just, again, as I mentioned, we have our Climate Action Plan which is really our strategic roadmap. And it does have some of those targets. But, again, those have not been codified anywhere and so there's an opportunity to work with our Administration and our Council to really think about how do we codify those things so that everybody is on board. It's, sort of, our kuleana and people can make those operational adjustments as needed. MS. FRENZ: This is DCC Cody. One brief gentle reminder for my Commissioners. Please state your name before speaking, just for our minutes—and including our participants on Zoom. Thank you. MS. GREENBAUM: Commissioner Greenbaum. I did have a question for you, Bethany. So, if any of the departments wanted to approach OSCER and ask in assisting and assessing the areas within their department, that the benefit—would you be—would this department actually be open to that in helping to creating (inaudible) MS. MORRISON: I'm, definitely, openI mean, just me personallyI'm a very optimistic and I love to collaborate. And so, I'm open to any suggestions that people have but, again, I would have to look at sort of what's our goals around sustainability. We mentioned zero waste, for example, and so if departments are looking for, "Hey, I want my department to become a zero waste department" MS. GREENBAUM: Correct. Page 17