2024-09-24 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission September 24, 2024 open the floor to any other requested or recommended changes. Now is the time to supplement, revise, remove— CHR. PAVAO: Anybody else have any other suggested changes? MR. NELSON: So, I make a motion to include those changes in the Findings that you drafted. CHR. PAVAO: Second? MR. RIORDAN: I second that motion—Commissioner Riordan. CHR. PAVAO: Any further discussion on the motion? MS. NAMAHOE: I want to thank you this is NamahoeI want to thank Corp. Counsel for working on this. I thought that it wasI appreciated the clarity. I know that we have gone through a process and I appreciateI think that this can stand (inaudible) including the corrections. I'll admit, I didn't know that we needed to have that language at all. I didn't realize that paragraph or point number 14 was even necessary to state where the wage—where the salary for the OSCER position sits against all of the other—any other body, County employee, or in the private sector. Is this—so my question then is, was this necessary because it is part of the corporate culture of doing it? I mean, even to say that, if we take out the first sentence of that it "may be higher" do we need to have it at all? MS. FRENZ: The only way to truly answer that question is to wait and see if we get a complaint or an appeal, frankly, right? Short of that, I don't know that it's necessarily required. This was me trying to articulate what I think you all meant and cover as many bases as possible to ensure that in the event you wanted to also rationalize because there has been a lot of conversation by this body about private, public, private/government sector, disparity/parity The difficulty to find qualified individuals, that's always been conversation here. So, that's how and why that was included. It can be completely struck, if this body doesn't feel that it properly embodies the rationale that it has utilized to get to where we are now for OSCER. MS. KAWA`AUHAU: Commissioner Kawa`auhau. I think that it's important because if you're trying to think of the mind of the reader, when they read this in the newspaper, and you want to—if they're asking questions, like, "Well, what about the..." you can try and hit as many as you possibly can, if it came up in conversation here, so that you can alleviate that question before it even comes to the body. So, I think that it's important. And I don't mind crossing out this at all—and I know we didn't—but I see the point of having it there because even though there isn't an equivalent private sector, there is an equivalent Page 5