2025-09-24 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission September 24, 2025 MS. FRENZ: So, what I did is the paragraph that starts, “The County of Hawaiʻi Salary Commission considered all of the above information and determined it was necessary to be competitive”—move that to, right behind— st MS. NAMAHOE: July 1, 2024. MS. FRENZ: Correct. So, old Number 10 is now going to say—right after our— “Covered Positions have not and currently are not scheduled to receive any increase in salaries since July 1, 2024.” The next paragraph would now be, “The County of Hawaiʻi Salary Commission considered all of the above information and determined it was necessary to be competitive with the current compensation of Covered Positions to ensure the County’s ability to both retain and recruit qualified employees.” MS. NAMAHOE: Right. MS. FRENZ: So, then our next paragraph— MS. NAMAHOE: —“Notes that quite often the department heads and deputy department heads are suffering from salary inversion”—because that above information is kind of an introduction to what’s now Number 10, and what’s now Number 12. So, it goes, “Covered Positions have not and currently are not scheduled to receive any increase”—then, “County of Hawaiʻi Salary Commission consider all the above information determined it was necessary”—then it goes into, “The Salary Commission notes that quite often department heads and deputy heads”— MS. FRENZ: Okay, I’m with you. MS. NAMAHOE: Got it? MS. FRENZ: Got it. MS. NAMAHOHE: Thank you. MS. TOKIHIRO: Just a point of clarification. After this body made that last inflationary increase and then the 5% increase as of July 1, 2024—that was intended to reduce those inversion instances. So, I don’t know if this paragraph now, given the current situation after those other adjustments—I don’t know that it is quite often occurring anymore but may—this body may want to recognize that inversion may occur. CHR. PAVAO: It might be so isolated (inaudible). Page 28