MIN CHARTER 2018-10-12 (2018-2020)

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Hawaii County Charter Commission -4 October 12, 2018 worked her way up from a Recreational Technician to the Director of Parks and Recreation. It took her 30 years to do that and now she's the Director of Parks and Recreation. Her qualifications go before the Mayor when he brings her to the County Council and the County Council can review all her qualifications. I think that the way it is you can't quantify what it would take to run a department like Parks and Recreation. The five years of administrative management and everything that someone like Director Waltjen has done in her 30 years when she went in front of the County Council. I believe that the way it is right now and having the Council and the Mayor look at her qualifications is the right way to go. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. Seeing no other questions, thank you so much for being here. At this time, I'd like to ask the Department of Public Works, Director Simeon. Thanks for being here, please state your name for the record. e. Department of Public Works — Director Allan Simeon (Note: At this time, Public Works Director Allan Simeon carne forward to address the members of the Commission. Mr. Simeon provided a PowerPoint presentation to the members and referred to information on the screen. A copy of the presentation is made a part of the record. See Charter Commission Communication No. 9.3.) MR. SIMEON: Allan Simeon, Director of Public Works. First of all, I would like to thank you all for letting me share with you what we do with Public Works and the service you are doing here, helping us. Secondly, I would like to acknowledge my Deputy Director, Merrick Nishimoto. So the Department of Public Works, I would like to share that we have about 413 positions. Later on I will let you know how many divisions we have. But out of that total positions, there are 59 vacancies. With those vacancies, there are 28 unfunded positions. We operate on an annual budget of $61 million, which is broken down to about $18.6 million for General Fund and also $42 million for Highway Fund, and .2 million for Beautification Fund. Our department consists of primarily six divisions. One is Administration, Building Division, Automotive Division, Engineering Division, Highway Maintenance Division, and Traffic Division. We all work together with these divisions, and our mission statement is basically, "To work together as one to improve the quality of service for the health and safety of our Big Island `ohana." We are trying our best to uphold that mission. First is the Administration Division, so basically the Administration Division is a backbone, so it holds everybody together. We do community outreach and information with the public. They do support for clerical and for the department coordination including fiscal, human resources, and above those, including to Page 16