2019-01-10 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission January 10, 2019 meeting minutes Jones: The entire Big Island community needs to see some benefits here, that’s what I am looking for. Ok, public safety miscellaneous. Mr. Buehler, would you like to share your notes with us? Buehler: Yeah, It’s all in my head, I just have to get it on paper. As it relates, the county police fleet idea, I think the numbers are pretty solid. I am sure there are other factors that are involved in that decision process by the police department. But I think we are just going to have to make some assumptions and throw it out there and hopefully look at subtraction. I think there is a good share of money to be saved also to improve the safety and performance of the public safety or police department. Jones: Have you come into any issues with union contracts or what they have already been told what they can or cannot do? Is there any conflict there or is this something, the car thing can be handled with or without bringing the union into it. Buehler: I don’t specifically, I have not had asked that question of the police chief. I think that’s something, if they can see the reasonableness and the savings and the safety issues then they can work around that. Jones: That’s good much appreciated. Thank you for your input. Mr. Birch do you have anything that you would like to share? Birch: Sorry nothing to share today. Jones: We will look forward to next meeting. Mrs. Arthurs? Arthurs: Let me just share this with you. This isn’t really…can I just pass it down or maybe Lenard can Ms. Woo and I have been gathering information I just thought it might be helpful for the commission to look at some of our finding so that as we craft our recommendation hopefully the other commissioners can give their input. You know after doing this I realize that we haven’t really looked at the budget issue as closely as we should because the housing department has their budget it doesn’t separate out the cost for revenue and expenditures for senior housing only so we are focusing on that so I need to go back to Neil Gyotoku to see if he can provide that information because it’s not separated out. In any case, you can see that the information that we got from Kimo Alameda at the Office of Aging is clearly indicating to us that the senior population is growing. So if it is growing that rapidly I’m not so sure I guess I have to be kind of a cool mathematician to figure out some projection in terms of what it could be now if you look on page 2 and this is just the Office of Housing and so there the projections of revenues from the federal government basically HUD and rent revenue and other sources of revenue so if I were to hopefully get from Mr Gyotoku how this plays out not only for the entire office of housing but the component that is specifically dealing with senior housing then we can sort of look at it and their projections across and the fiscal year 2020 and 2021 and see if the rate of expected increase, which is like 3.8% per year, is the projected increase of seniors, if that sort of falls in line so the math part is something 6