2025-12-22 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission December 22, 2025 Announcements (Item 7) CHR. PAVAO: Any “Announcements?” No? Schedule Next Meeting Date (Item 8) The Salary Commission May Convene Its Next Meeting On Tuesday, January 27, 2025, At 10:00 A.M., At The Hilo Council Chambers, Hawaiʻi County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, First Floor, Room 1401, Hilo, HI 96720 CHR. PAVAO: “Schedule Next Meeting”—is for Tuesday, January 27. Adjournment (Item 9) CHR. PAVAO: Yeah. Anything else? If not we’ll be adjourned. Thank you very much. Everybody have a good holiday— th MR. DUDOIT: And that’s 10:00 on January 27— (Note: At this time, a member of the public seated in the gallery, addressed the Commission.) CHR. PAVAO: Oh, okay. She (inaudible). SPEAKER: (Inaudible.) CHR. PAVAO: Oh, okay. MS. OTSUKA: Dell Otsuka, District 3. I appreciate all that you’ve done. I do. And I—it’s also a thankless job. But as I sit here and only after these two months I’ve been reading a lot of the information, granted that the information that was submitted last month, this—County officials make very good money comparably just under Honolulu, and the population and the tourism that affects all of that—economy isn’t taken into effect that—yes, they are paid well and in spite of not having raises all these months, and the fact that the inversion really doesn’t exist means that they get paid very well—well above their subordinates. So, yes, there are two positions—the deputy’s hard to fill, but all I’m saying is sometimes we get caught up. The merit—and I understand that, but I don’t know of any other business or public sector that doesn’t base their raises on merit or performance. I don’t. So—and if you talk to each department, the people in the department, they can help you better see what the climate is in those departments. And so, for them to see that certain directors are Page 13