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<br />Salary Commission September 24, 2025 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />inflationary adjustments since January 1, 2024. We could insert, “This County of Hawaiʻi Salary <br />Commission has not awarded any pay increase for the covered positions since July 1, 2024.” <br /> <br />MS. NAMAHOE: Hi, this is Namahoe. I believe that we addressed it when we were talking <br />about “further” and increases and inflation. I think we can strike the whole thing at Number 8. <br /> <br />CHR. PAVAO: Yeah. I believe Number 8 needs to be deleted altogether. I think that’s a good <br />idea because that, kind of, refers back to the Number 2, which we already deleted. <br /> <br />MS. FRENZ: Okay. <br /> <br />MS. NAMAHOE: Strike ‘em. <br /> <br />ʻi <br />MS. FRENZ: Okay. So moving on to old Number 9. It states, “The County of Hawai Salary <br />Commission acknowledges that interest arbitrations are currently pending for employees in <br />Bargaining Units 11, 12, and 15”—and I think we should verify with Director Tokihiro that that <br />continues to be accurate as we sit here—“and any pay raises for contract period July 1, 2025 <br />through June 30, 2029 have not yet been finally determined. Employees whose positions are <br />included in or indexed to BU 13 are set to receive a cumulative total of 15.29% in salary <br />increases for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2029. Covered Positions have not and <br />currently are not scheduled to receive any increase in salaries since 2024.” <br /> <br />And I could clarify there—“July 1, 2024”—because they did get that 5% pay increase. <br /> <br />MS. NAMAHOE: Yes, please. I think this is an important paragraph. <br /> <br />CHR. PAVAO: Yeah, so that’s important. <br /> <br />MR. NELSON: Okay. Yeah, I agree, and I guess I’m just wondering that we talked about the <br />inversions—is this where we put some language in that that we revisit this in case the arbitration <br />or—if, basically, the results of those negotiations result in inversions, the Board would consider <br />that. I think this may be the place where that goes. <br /> <br />MS. FRENZ: It could also—if I would ask everyone to take a look at the paragraph 10, just <br />below it where we actually start to talk—I start to talk about inversion on your behalf. So, it <br />could go either here, it could go there, or anywhere else. If you’d like it to be in old Number 9, I <br />could insert it there. <br /> <br />MR. NELSON: If we got it down below, we don’t need it in Number 9, okay. <br /> <br />MS. FRENZ: Okay. <br /> <br />CHR. PAVAO: Yeah, there’s an inversion in paragraph number 10. <br /> <br />Page 25 <br /> <br /> <br />