2025-12-22 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission December 22, 2025 only a handful of potential close situations for inversion but, again, there’s no overtime being built into that. Police and Fire have a lot of overtime because the nature—they’re first responders. MS. OTSUKA: Thank you. That was a deputy police chief and the Planning Department—were the two departments that showed that—that month. So, if we’re basing everything on a comparative, wouldn’t you take several months or even a year to see how bad inversion is before we just—I only saw that one, and I couldn’t clearly see an inversion in that. So, this is the reason I question that. MS. FRENZ: That’s, again, ‘cause it was base pay. MS. OTSUKA: Right. MS. FRENZ: That was not including the overtime. I just wanted to share that. MS. OTSUKA: But it shouldn’t, right? The inversion shouldn’t take into account overtime or longevity or step increases—from my understanding. So, again, this is a frustrating thing because we only see what we’re shown. And we’re only told what we’re—they want us to know. So, I appreciate what you do. I thank you very much for your time and— CHR. PAVAO: Thank you— MS. OTSUKA: —Merry Christmas. CHR. PAVAO: —thank you for your concern (inaudible) information—and thank you. MS. OTSUKA: Thank you. CHR. PAVAO: Okay. Anything else, if not, we’ll— MS. FRENZ: I will just clarify, Chair, for the January meeting—in order for this Commission to still hold a meeting in January, we’ll need at least quorum, which would be five. We currently have only six of nine positions filled. So, if all six of you are still able to be present, I know that Chair Pavao and Commissioner Namahoe terms end at the end of this month, but you can, by Charter, holdover for 90 days if your positions have not been filled. So, you can come through March of 2026, in the event you still want to hold meetings to approve minutes, for example, such as the January meeting to approve minutes from today’s hearing, I think would be very important, so the public is able to see those minutes get posted online and see what happened—and the important conversation that occurred here, today. Page 19