2025-12-22 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission December 22, 2025 CHR. PAVAO: —based on performance. MS. OTSUKA: Thank you. CHR. PAVAO: That’s the way to effectuate change is to move the Charter amendment process, yeah. MS. OTSUKA: And if there’s anything else that any of us can do, please let us know because we don’t know—I don’t know what you go through. I don’t know what you really can and cannot do or shouldn’t do. So, yeah, it would be good to know if I have something to take to the Charter—I mean, the County Council. CHR. PAVAO: Thank you very much. MS. NAMAHOE: Thank you. This is civic training for all of us. MS. OTSUKA: Me, too. MS. NAMAHOE: For us sitting here on this Commission, interfacing with the public, and making sure that we’re doing the right thing—and that’s all we’re trying to do. Again, we’re working with an elegant solution and I coulda, woulda, should’ve—but it’s not in our purview to make decisions going forward. All we can do is come up with solutions that seem as reasonable as possible and then hold them all accountable. MS. OTSUKA: So, would it have been prudent to even—rather than four years, just to give one year at a time? CHR. PAVAO: The justification for four years is because the collective bargaining units—the Unions—have recently agreed and signed a four-year contract. So, we kind of maintained parity within those four years, so that there wouldn’t be that— MS. OTSUKA: Right. CHR. PAVAO: —same situation we had before where union members are making more than the deputy directors in their department. MS. OTSUKA: So, are the four-year contracts for the union people the same as an administration? Is that the same four years we’re talking about? CHR. PAVAO: Basically, what we did was, we used the same percentages that the HGEA Bargaining Unit 13 had. So, to, again, maintain parity so there wouldn’t be that inversions. Page 17