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minutes 02-05-00Page 17 of 66 they actually have the power to adjudicate, you know, make findings on complaints; and then (g) the annual report is in there for the Police Commission. There is an annual report. Then this non-interference except for purposes of inquiry is in there for the Police Commission. RAY: So, we’re really only talking about those three items; (c), (d), and (e), expansion of, so let’s just keep that in mind and we’ll get some more information to continue this discussion on Wednesday. Marni. HERKES: Do you want me to withdraw my motion? RAY: Yes. HERKES: I withdraw my motion. IRVINE: I guess I was wondering, Roland mentioned General Orders in the Police Department. Is that something that we need to know something about to do this? YUEN: Well, the Police Department has a bound volume of what are called the General Orders, and they’re administrative in nature. They’re things like - AKANA: Haircuts, uniforms, basic. YUEN: They’re administrative rather than being really broad policies. They are specific rules for the conduct of the Police Department. They overlap, sometimes, with things that are in the contract, like car allowances and meal breaks. You can get a copy but I think that what we’re doing is at a higher level of generality than the General Orders. IRVINE: Okay. RAY: Moving on. Salary Commission. We have correspondence from Mike Ben. We have correspondence from Gary Yoshiyama, which I guess is Mike Ben’s response, a follow-up on that. And then in the memo that I sent out I included a draft on Compensation; Salary Commission, and this is just pulling language off the shelf from other Charters. Everything is pulled out of other Charters. The last sentence, I did editorialize a little bit, so I came up with some language there, and it says, Commission shall review and compensate all county elected officials and appointed directors so that their, and this is what I added, total salaries and benefits have a reasonable relationship to both the compensation of civil service employees and the private sector. And, to me, if I were a Commissioner, that’s the kind of direction they would look at, a total salary and benefits package that would use civil service pay and private sector to come up with recommendations for these executive pay raises, because we’re competing with both. This is on the table. We did not take any vote on this at the last meeting, so I’ll open this for discussion. Roland. HIGASHI: Are we looking to empower the Salary Commission to set the salaries without confirmation from the Council? RAY: That’s my understanding, right. And just a little background. I spoke with Maui County, actually ex-Mayor Lingle about this a couple of weeks ago, and she said they instituted it on Maui and it seems to work well and people seem to be very happy with it. Gary. YOSHIYAMA: John, you were talking about your last sentence there, and you make reference to the reasonable relationship to the private sector. What I would suggest is rather than state civil service employees, we would broaden that to, maybe, just say public sector, because it’s much bigger than civil service employees. They’re all different classes. RAY: Yes, that’s good because, like, if you’re looking at a new, a more empowered Managing Director position, you’d probably be looking to a public sector employee in that field. That would be your competition. HIGASHI: Is a motion in order to adopt the amendment? RAY: Wait. Mr. Ben’s submittal to us, if we could all refer to that. We asked him what executive positions would he recommend be effected by this. So, other than the Department Heads and Deputies, included on this list are the County Physicians who I’ve never known what they did. And also, it’s got the Safety Coordinator. It’s got the Band Director. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 02-05-00.html7/1/2011