HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0717.004 2004-2006
CONSI'ANCE R. KIRIU vv or WILLIAM E. SMI"tH
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County of Hawai `i
Office of the Countv Clerk
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Milo, /lnwai'i 96720
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March 16, 2006
To: Virginia Isbell, Chair
And Membe o ~ he Committee on Finance
From: William E. Smith, Deputy County Clerk
Lane Shibata, Audit Analyst
Colleen Schrandt, Audit Analyst
.loan Castberg, Legislative Specialist
Rodney Oshiro, Legislati~ e Analyst
RE: Operating and Capital Budgets and Program Review
March 30, 2006, Day Two
This is to transmit questions of agencies (Day 'Cwo) after reviewing Bill Nos. 235 and 236
relating to the Operating and Capital Budgets and Program.
OPERATING AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BUDGETS
DEPARTMENT OF DATA SYSTEMS
1. What progress has been made on the Internet Payment Application Plan (Part I, Volume
page 48)?
2. Is the County adequately protected against an attack on its data systems?
3. What vacant positions will not be filled in FY07?
DEPARMENT ON CIVIL SERVICE
1. I-low much has been spent for the E?mployee Scholarship Program (5151.30/$15,000) in
FY06. and for what purpose?
2. What vacant positions will not be filled in 1~Y07? ~j .y ~l
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1/ciwai'i ('oui~ty is An F,yual Opportunih~ Provider And Employer
Workers' Compensation
3. Why do the workers' compensation claim costs continue to be high (FY07 General Fund
budget alone is $2,500,000)?
4. Does the Department still have a backlog of claims?
5. Does the "Back to Work" program work?
6. Does the County need the Third Party Adjusters expense (5152.02/$125,000)? f [ow much
has been expended over the past three years?
7. Why did the General Fund iJnemployment Compensation expense increase by $ 156,000 to
$276,000 (5911.91)?
8. [s the County still above the national average for workload per adjuster?
DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
1. What is your involvement in the Community Development Plan project
(5162.98.1 15/$333,000)`? How does your program tie into the Planning Department's
Community Development Plan program?
2. What is the status o(the FY06 Coyui Frog Eradication program (State 5163.05 ftn $100,000
and County 5163.06 for $1,000,000)7
3. What vacant positions will not be tilled in FY07?
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY'S OFF[CE
1. What progress has been made on the office relocation to 101 Pauahi Street?
2. How effective is the "War on Ice" program?
3. What does your Department consider the most pressing issue facing the County?
4. What progress has been made in the Pahoa Weed and Seed project?
5. Explain the new Non-Support Prosecuting Program (5271.72/$182,600)?
6. What vacvit positions will not be filled in FY07?
DEPARTMENT OF LIOUOR CONTROL
1. What new youth and public education activities were performed by the department in the past
year, and have they been successful?
2. Last year. lour Liquor Control investigator positions were vacant. This year, three positions
are vacant. What is being done to till these positions?
3. What is the most pressing issue facing your department?
OFFICE OF THE CORPORATION COUNSEL
1. What are the major lawsuits against the County, and how much in damages are being sought?
2. What vacant positions will not be filled in FY07?
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POLICE DEPARTMENT
1. Is the Police Department strategically based and equitably staffed throughout the County`?
2. How many police offioer positions are vacant? What is being done to mitigate staff
shortages?
3. What vacant positions will not he filled in FY07?
4. How effective is the "War on Ice"' program?
5. How effective is the Marijuana Eradication program?
6. Police Administration Division OCIs, Mileage and Auto Allowance expense (5203.02.111)
increased by $342,588 to $2,967,600. What is the reason for this increase`?
7. What does your Department consider the most pressing issue facing the County'?
A. Explain Cell Block Security expense (5207.02/$362,085 & 51 12.02/$204,000)?
9. Explain Police Pleet Transition expense of $1,000,000 (5215.17)?
10. What is the status of the Records M~magement System, and has it improved the Department's
et~3ciency (Part I, Volume II, page 192, Operations Bureau Highlights)?
1 1. Vice Section Highlights section reflects that marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, firearms
and cash are frequently seized together (Part I, Volume [l, pages 203-205). Is there a reason
why we see them together'?
12. "Traffic Enforcement Unil program highlights reflect 30 traffic fatalities during FY05 (Part 1,
Volume [I, page X06), of which 53% were related to alcohol and 47% were related to illegal
drugs. Do you foresee illegal drugs surpassing alcohol?
13. Capital Projects FY07-What is the status of the Police 700 Megahertz Communication
System ($4,000,000/Total project $21,000,000)'?
14. Capital Projects FY07-What is the status of the new South Kona (Captain Cook) Station?
I5. Capital Projects-I~Y06-What is the status of the Police Data/Information Transmission
System?
cc: Harry Kim, Mayor
Dixie Kaetsu, Managing Director
Bill "Takaba, Finance Director
Gary Takamura, Budget Administrator
Clayton Yugawa, Director of Data Systems
Michael Ben, Director of Personnel
Jane Testa, Director of Department of Research and Development
Jay Kimura, Prosecuting Attorney
Janice Pakele, Director of Liquor Control
Lincoln Ashida, Corporation Counsel
Chief Lawrence Mahuna, Police Department
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