MIN CHARTER 2018-08-10 (2018-2020)

Home

Hawai`i County Charter Commission -2 August 10, 2018 supports the users. So that's the front line, the face of IT, and realistically there's only four of them to cover 1,700 plus users in the County, so if anyone has any issue with using an application, with operating their PC (personal computer)— anything, they call Help Desk and Help Desk responds. There's three of them in Hilo and one of them on the West side. CHR. ADAMS: Do we have any questions or comments for Director Ung? Alright, thank you so much that definitely followed the request that we had to make it quick and to the point. Thank you so much. MS. UNG: Yeah, so we look forward to working with you. Thank you. d. Department of Environmental Management Director; William Kucharski CHR. ADAMS: Next I would move us on to the Department of Environmental Management. That's Director Bill Kucharski. Thank you for being here Sir. Please introduce yourself for the record and then— (Note: At this time, Environmental Management Director William Kucharski came forward to address the members of the Commission. Mr. Kucharski presented a PowerPoint presentation to the Commission. See Charter Communication No. 1.1.) MR. KUCHARSKI: Yes, my name is Bill Kucharski I am Director of the Department of Environmental Management and I am pleased to be here today, and did prepare a very short Power Point that will go over some of the points and questions that were asked. CHR. ADAMS: If I could ask before we begin, are we going to be able to see what's on the, are we going to be able to see this on the screen or are we going to be looking at the screen over here? There is a handout. I understand. Does everybody on this side have the handout? Do you have the handout there Donna? Here, take mine. Alrighty, we can see, okay it is up there anyway. O.K. Thank you so much. Please, thank you. MR. KUCHARSKI: Thank you. A little bit of a background on the, on DEM, our budget is about $54 million dollars. We have 218 approved positions, 187 of them are funded. We generally run between 10 to 15 percent vacancies in that as well. We have two major divisions, the Solid Waste Division and the Wastewater Division. The third group is our administrative group that deals with our contracting and purchasing. The Solid Waste Division, we have two landfills, soon to be one landfill. The Hilo Landfill is in the process of closing here pretty soon. So we have Hilo and Pu'uanahulu on the West side. The County generates approximately a little bit Page 11