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11)Change overtime so that it is triggered after working 40 hours per <br /> <br />week, not after 8 hours per day. (January 14, 2011 meeting) <br />12)Consider consolidating vacation and sick time into personal time <br /> <br />off. Potential impacts would allow employees more flexibility to <br />schedule personal time off, would reduce abuse of sick time. <br />(January 14, 2011 meeting) <br />13)Four-day work week.(January 14, 2011 meeting Hoffman) <br /> <br />B.Reimbursements/Per Diem <br />1)Eliminate meal reimbursement when travel is in more than two <br />districts. (January 14, 2011 meeting) <br />2)Replace set per diem with actual expenses, capped at per diem <br />amount. (January 14, 2011 meeting) <br />C.Travel/Vehicle Use <br />1)Limit attendance at off-island conferences and/or hold off-island <br />conferences via Skype or video conferencing. (January 14, 2011 <br />meeting) <br />2) Eliminate County take-home vehicles. Replace with vehicle pool <br />that would allow employees to check out a vehicle if needed. <br />(January 14, 2011 meeting) <br />3) Hold department and division meetings via video conferencing <br />when appropriate.(January 14, 2011 meeting) <br />D.Department-Specific Suggestions <br />1)Review the process for qualifying agricultural property tax <br />exemptions and consider including financial documentation to show <br />agricultural activity.(November 3, 2010 Minutes, page 25; <br />December 10, 2010 Minutes, page 34) <br />2)Implement software solutions to coordinate collection of tipping fees <br />at the scale house and insure accounting systems are able to read <br />the data.(November 3, 2010 Minutes, page 25; December 10, <br />2010 Minutes, page 34) <br />3)Department of Environmental Management regulate septic and <br />grease haulers and collect an annual fee for registration <br />commensurate with fees of other counties in Hawai‘i. (November 3, <br />2010 Minutes, page 25; December 10, 2010 Minutes, page 35) <br />4)Explore annual renewal fee for solid waste haulers and require all <br />haulers to be current on solid waste bills to reduce delinquencies. <br />(November 3, 2010 Minutes, page 27) <br />5)Eliminate Homeowner’s Real Property Exemption for Unpermitted <br />Dwellings.(November 17, 2010 meeting and Comm. 2010-105) <br />6)Require that all commercial buses that accommodate 40 <br />passengers or more when registered in the County of Hawai‘i for <br />use are required to demonstrate that they comply with trade-in <br />program.(November 17, 2010 meeting and Comm. 2010-105; <br />December 10, 2010 Minutes, page 38) <br />3 <br /> <br />