2010-10-22 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. WONG: I’ve got sort of like a fragment to a long complex question, but it’s all in one end thought of contracting process problems potentially. Let me ask you in fragment, do all Finance Department staff get trained in the procurement process? MS. CRAWFORD: Most times. MS. WONG: Do secretaries, do MS. CRAWFORD: No. MS. WONG: Just particular people. Do the County Council because they’re voted in every so many years every time there’s a new one, do they get trained in any of the procurement processes at all? MS. CRAWFORD: We’ve increased the amount of training we do for the council members.More recently we had new council members who came who actually requested that and came and had a more in depth training from several of our sections of budgeting and procurement and accounting. MS. WONG: Do they recognize the complexities of procurement would you say or they sort of have a feel? MS. CRAWFORD: Right. They’re not directly involved in procurement and for that reason they’re not. MS. WONG: And every time a new administration comes in and their new department heads potentially, do they get trained on the procurement process, all the procurement processes? MR. MASUDA: Our office does training on that. MS. WONG: In-house then. MR. MASUDA: For department heads, yes. MS. WONG: Cause I know they do a lot of training up at the UH mixing county people and state people for procurement processing. MR. MASUDA: Are you talking about the procurement institute? MS. WONG: I don’t know if, it’s held at the conference room up above UH. MS. SAKO: Mostly for the vendors. MR. MASUDA: That’s not the institute one. MS. WONG: Cause I know I attended these classes up there. I thought, oops, I’ve been here, done that. And so the department heads are all trained when they start. And what I’m curious about is, I’m trying to figure out are there glitches or problems in 17