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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -2 August 10, 2018 Another division is our Administrative Support Branch, which you don't hear much about unless you're a County employee. That's the entity that supervises and manages our benefits, our retirement, you know, payroll, promotions, you know, transfers and the like. We maintain the documentation for those events. Classification and Pay is our sixth division. That's pretty much ensuring that the employees are performing equal work for equal pay. We come in and we audit their positions. We ensure that they're working within the class specs of that position, and if not, then maybe we have to do a reallocation or something to that effect. We also look at the various departments and upon request we assist with revising or amending organization's structures for each of the departments. And the final division which we have is our Health and Safety Division, and primarily we engage in safety training and safety programs for all the County employees. Most recently we've been engaged in doing the fit testing for all of the County employees who had to respond down to the eruption event down in Leilani and lower Puna, and we performed the fit testing certification for all the police officers and the various Highway and Traffic employees who had to respond to that area. The second component of that division is our Workers Coinp branch, which we oversee and supervise all of the worker comp claims from our employees who get injured while performing their job duties. Again, 30 people in our staff Our budget, the HR Section, approximately $1.9 million budget; and our Health and Safety, which is primarily our workers comp, because we're self-insured we have approximately a $2.2 million annual budget for workers. The HR Director is appointed by the Merit Appeals Board. They conduct an annual evaluation—not investigation, I misspoke. Let's hope they're not doing any investigation. We've had enough of that. But no, so they conduct an annual evaluation of the HR Director to ensure I'm performing satisfactorily. The Board is made up of five members, and they serve five-year terms. As to the Charter, we're specifically found under Article 7, Chapter 1 of the Hawaii County Charter. It's pretty clean and straight forward. There's not much there. I think it's just half a page and a little bit more on the second page. And like I said, a small department, large responsibility because we're dealing with all 2,800 County employees. But I think as to any recormnendations for amendments to the Charter, I don't think I have any at this time. I'm happy to engage in any dialog or questions either of you may have. Thank you very much. CHR. ADAMS: Thanks, Director. Do we have any questions or comments for the Director? Commissioner Todd. Page 31