2024-07-31 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 31, 2024 make a motion that we tighten it up before next budget—before the next calendar year or fiscal year, which would be July 1st, 2025. So, does this mean, because we're setting the salary still off -scale, does that mean that we are that this is the (inaudible) to create this interim position all the way through June 30th, because we're not meeting the rest of the scale of what the other administrators are getting paid? MS. GREENBAUM: So, Commissioner Greenbaum. So, you're concerned that we would have to make a 20% increase after the first year to bring it to parity? Is that the concern that you foresee? MS. NAMAHOE: I don't see it as a concern. I see it as an inevitability. So, as we are right now making an increase, let's be clear that we're making an increase on an interim position. So, are we because we're not setting this wage right now into permanence because we're not meeting even the lowest colleagues' fellow administrators base wage, then what we're saying is by even giving it an increase over the current interim pay, we are not—we're by default, we are encouraging that this interim position remains in the interim status until we meet in a year. Are we all clear that that's what we're doing? CHR. PAVAO: Chair Pavao. Maybe we can ask the Director Tokihiro, if—what would what's necessary for this position to not be interim anymore—it's setting the salary? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes, setting the salary is what is required to be able to appoint someone to the position. CHR. PAVAO: If we—as we just voted and passed the salary of 125,000 that would be enough for you to transition the position to a permanent position permanent recruitment? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. There are a couple of details that I'm checking on to see if we need to do the Proposed Findings of Fact and print it in the newspaper. But if the salary is set and approved through whatever required process, then, yes, the recruitment or the position could be appointed. CHR. PAVAO: This is a appointment and confirmed by the Council? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes. MR. RIORDAN: This is Commissioner Riordan. So, we could just say we're going to set the salary at 125 and leave it at that. And a year from now, if they've been extremely successful, we can raise their salary just like we can raise anybody's salary. We don't have to put that in the motion that we put forward now. CHR. PAVAO: Yeah, we should be looking at all the salaries at that point because the current salary structure, we just gave everybody a raise July 1st and there's nothing beyond that. So, it Page 24