2025-09-24 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission September 24, 2025 authority to review and set compensation for all county executive positions, elected positions and appointed positions of directors and deputy directors (collectively hereinafter “Covered Positions”) so that their total compensation and benefits have an equitable and reasonable relationship to compensation in the public and private sectors.” Any request to changes? CHR. PAVAO: No, not from me. MS. FRENZ: Moving on to Number 2, “The County of Hawaiʻi Salary Commission last adjusted compensation for Covered Positions on January 1, 2024 with a 22.44% inflationary adjustment increase, and on July 1, 2024 with a 5% pay increase to account for pay adjustments to stay in line with the relevant collective bargaining agreement pay increases for union members.” CHR. PAVAO: Looks good. MS. FRENZ: Any changes? No? Okay. Number 3 is something that you included in your previous Findings—although I adjusted somewhat to indicate from then till now. CHR. PAVAO: Mm-hmm. MS. FRENZ: I don’t know whether or not you guys need or want that there. If you would like me to strike it, I can strike it. MR. NELSON: I think we can take it out. I don’t think it’s necessary— CHR. PAVAO: Yeah. MR. NELSON: (Inaudible) needs to be in there? CHR. PAVAO: I agree. It doesn’t apply to the current situation, I think, yeah, this history. MR. RIORDAN: Does Number 2 need to be in there? Do you need to say that these people got a 22% raise? MS. FRENZ: You don’t, if you don’t want to. It’s just providing the history of how we got here, but you’re not required to do that. It’s just context. CHR. PAVAO: If you have Number 2, then you almost have to have Number 3, I think, because Number 3 explains why you had such a big increase, yeah. MS. NAMAHOE: Or we could modify just to say—‘cause the last increase was an actual pay st increase, and scratch the inflationary adjustment, and just put it at 5 at July 1—since that was the last time we made a pay increase. Page 15