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Salary Commission
<br />September 24, 2024
<br />So, this is a schedule of what's going to occur. As to the October 2nd date, our Secretary has
<br />indicated to me that ifso, I have, just as you all just for you guys to know, a few minutes ago
<br />after the motion officially passed, I modified the document and I've already emailed it to our
<br />Secretary. So, she has the final document as approved this morning in our hearing. So, if she
<br />can get it done sooner and get it to whoever—send it to the newspaper, she will. Short of that,
<br />we're expecting that, at a bare minimum, to be done on Thursday, October 2nd, to then run—as
<br />indicated in the Hawaii Tribune -Herald and the West Hawaii newspapers.
<br />Thereafter, our public hearing will be on November 14d', in this conference room and/or—we'll
<br />also have Zoom setup again for whomever may be appearing by Zoom and/or public, and a West
<br />Hawaii option, right, as required.
<br />So, 30 days after that, we need a quorum for this November 14. And, again, as we talked about,
<br />this is where the public may show up and can show up to exercise concerns, frustrations, issues,
<br />or support with the OSCER salary. It may or may not hold any interest, like, other raises might
<br />pull interest—not that they did for us last time, right? But it's possible.
<br />So, everybody needs to come ready—familiar with the proposed Findings, as adopted today
<br />and ready to listen. This is not a dialogue. This is the publics' opportunity to provide testimony
<br />and input, but this is not a conversation. That's where, subsequent to that, 30 days after that
<br />public hearing, as required by our Rules, is when you would take action. So, that's the
<br />December 19d', 2024, date.
<br />While our Rules are silent as to the adoption of or setting of a new salary, if we consider and
<br />we've chosen legally to proceed in the abundance of caution, if we consider the original interim
<br />contract salary amount and the salary that this Commission has set—it's, obviously, more than
<br />10%. Question is whether or not we need to consider that as an increase when you didn't set it
<br />originally. Nevertheless, because the Rules are silent and we have no real precedent to pull
<br />from we've chosen to proceed cautiously and consider this a 10% more increase, which
<br />requires—under our Rulesa two-thirds vote of our entire membership.
<br />We currently only have seven of nine seats filled, which means we need six to be present on
<br />December 19d', 2024, for that vote to carry. If we don't have everyone present for that hearing or
<br />at least the six of the seven that we currently have—we will not be able to take action. And
<br />therefore thereafter, nothing can take effect, which is what we're hoping it would be January 1,
<br />2025, right—so, that they can begin their recruitment process for this position.
<br />So, if that fails, just know that that is going to be the consequence if we don't have two-thirds in
<br />December. For November, we need a quorum. `Cause, again, we're not taking action, we're just
<br />listening. That's our public hearing public testimony date.
<br />So, can everyone present today this is what we would need to be able to have it happen. We
<br />don't have Commissioner Dudoit present—so, we'll need to make sure we reach out to him early
<br />to confirm his availability, `cause I don't think we've seen him for about two hearings now.
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