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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 <br />MR. HOPKINS: Of your, what was it, you had, out of all of your positions that <br />you have there, how much does the County pay for or are most of your positions <br />paid for through the Federal. <br />MR. GYOTOKU: Like I said, it is about two million dollars from County funds <br />we receive out of the 30 million and I would say about 80% is for salaries and <br />fringe benefits. See whatever we can charge to the federal grants like CDBG <br />(Community Development Block Grant) or existing housing,we can charge, we <br />will do it. But whatever activities like for example, like for a housing project <br />which doesn't have any federal revenue, then we would charge it to the County <br />and you know the County would pay for this out of what they subsidize us for — <br />two million dollars a year. <br />MR. HOPKINS: So, with your employees, they are not civil servants, it means <br />flexibility. Does that mean that there's flexibility that if the federal grant allows <br />you to charge against them, you can charge that against them? <br />MR. GYOTOKU: It wouldn't really matter. You know whether they are civil <br />service or not because it depends on the work that you are doing. If they are <br />working on that federal grant we can charge their time to that federal grant if it <br />has administrative revenues which most of the projects or grants that we have and <br />programs we get. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Saquing. <br />MS. SAQUING: Thank you. I just needed a little clarification and maybe history <br />if you know. How does Workforce Innovation get under the umbrella of housing? <br />MR. GYOTOKU: That's a really unique situation. Mayor Kim in his previous <br />first administration, there was a Workforce Investment Act program and he was <br />the one who was instrumental in getting those monies and for some strange reason <br />they put it into housing because he felt that I guess we handle so many federal <br />grants that it is easier for us to maintain and monitor. <br />MS. SAQUING: Ah, okay. <br />MR. GYOTOKU: And I gotta tell you that where our department is one of the <br />most scrutinized accounting you know, audited programs because we have all <br />these different auditors from different agencies coming in and auditing each and <br />every program. If you look at my timex, there's about 26 different pockets of <br />monies that we could allocate so unless you charge the time, you would charge <br />those pockets of revenue. <br />MS. SAQUING: I see. Thank you very much. <br />Page 23 <br />