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<br />Merit Appeals Board October 30, 2025 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: I couldn’t say exactly, but I believe it was several years. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: They missed four years maybe or five—who knows? <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: I’m not sure, but it was several years. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Well, the thing with this is do you have—or can you obtain the <br />salaries of the directors on the other islands? Do you have that available? Like, what does the <br />director of DHRD receive, the Maui director, the Kauaʻi director. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: So, the Salary Commission was provided with a copy of the salary study that <br />Maui County commissioned last—early last year. I believe that the findings were from March. <br />And so, the Salary Commission was looking at that report for comparisons. I believe the <br />information about the salaries of the other directors—and I think it even looks at nationwide <br />salaries—is in that report. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Is that something that’s available for us to look at? <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: I believe I can provide the Board with a copy of that salary study. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: ‘Cause that would help to see what the other directors are receiving. I mean, <br />the responsibilities are basically the same throughout the State. It’s basically the same. Each <br />island has its unique— <br /> <br />MR. AGUINALDO: Challenges, yeah? <br /> <br />CHR CABANAS: Yeah. They have their own—they have their unique situations but, basically, <br />the merit system principle is across-the-board throughout the State of Hawaiʻi. So, our island— <br />the size of it is challenging because we have employees spread out throughout our island. <br /> <br />What concerns me is that seeing your managers may come close to your base salary and with <br />overtime, they’ll exceed that, but you could control the overtime so that they don’t. However, if <br />it’s a big, big, huge project like with the CoHnect project, then that might happen. I don’t know <br />how close that person would come to your base salary, but we never want to see subordinates <br />making more than an appointing authority. <br /> <br />MR. AGUINALDO: I agree. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: So, Glynis is going to get a copy of that Maui study so we can look at it. <br />And I think that would help us in providing a recommendation because, right now, when you <br />tally up this HGEA pay increases, it comes out to, like, 15% for four years—for you and—huh? <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Fifteen point three, actually. <br /> <br />Page 31 <br /> <br /> <br />