2010-11-17 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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$80, 000, the difference between 24 and 16 So if a person actually made that suggestion, the beneficial suggestion committee would then implement it. We would save $80, 000 and then that individual gets a bonus check of $4, 000 let's say the benefit is 5 %. But maybe I have a way of saving the electrical use in the county. Maybe it'll cost $50, 000 to implement this change, but the cost to the county is to save them $1, 000, 000 in electrical costs. Is that something worth pursuing? So a beneficial suggestion program allows people to look at their environment, the way in which they do business, and is there a way to cut costs. That's basically what your Cost of Government Committee is looking at. Is there a way to reduce costs within the government and improve what we're doing? So the beneficial suggestion program would be an ongoing program where people could submit their suggestion and find ways of cutting costs. So just like I have to enforce a $25 no street number regulation, but it costs us a minimum of $50, if there's a way to correct that then we should consider that. So that's what the beneficial suggestion program is, it's just a process established to allow individuals to make their recommendations. And if they're implemented, then they get a bonus from that. And then you would set up it would be set up that whoever the committee is, they have no idea who the beneficial suggestion who is making that beneficial suggestion, so that you keep the politics kind of out of it. You look at the beneficial suggestion strictly on its own merits. Okay, with that, I invite any more questions, and I've gone through my list. Yes, Gloria? WONG: Can you it's three parts. Can you talk a little bit about what you did in your federal positions before you came to Hawaii? Second, you copied several other people in this letter to us. Did you get any responses or any discussion from any of those people that you discussed? And of all the employee responses that we've received, yours was very thought out, a lot more than in your own particular function. I'm always curious as to why people do things. What was your motivation in looking at the bigger picture rather than the specific questions? LEONARD: Okay, I'll answer the third one first. It's because of my nature. I'm a very broad- scoped individual. I always look at the big picture, rather than just being locked into my little job, and you'll find out why when I answer number one. Number two, with regards to all the people that I carbon copied on this no, I didn't hear back from anyone. But each of these individuals are somewhat familiar with the number one recommendation with regard to consolidating code enforcement, because I've been pushing that for sometime along with Mitch Roth, a prosecuting attorney. So we 've worked collectively on this concept, and I've made recommendations or presentations, excuse me to the mayor and to others in regards to consolidated enforcement. So that's the reason why those individuals are on this letter. With regards to my background, 32 years of working for the Department of Defense, my last function was I was chairman of an international steering committee with five nations for a $2 billion major weapons systems for the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines. My responsibility was to identify all the requirements from cradle to death from the time the program is born to the time that we take it out of service. Basically I'm responsible for everything to keep it alive, serviced and maintained, people - trained, parts in the supply system. And I worked with five nations in regards on that project. So as being a professional logistician for the Department of Defense, logistics has a broad umbrella concept of what's going on. So as things are being engineered and designed, I look at the design and say, somebody's going 17