HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-05-03 Letter to Aaron Chung and Members of the Hawai'i County Council re Cost Items, United Public Workers Bargaining Unit 01 and Employees Excluded from BU01Harry Kim
Mayor
May 3, 2019
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Aaron S.Y. Chung, Chairman,
and Members of the Hawai`i County Council
County of Hawai`i
25 Aupuni Street
Hilo, Hawai`i 96720
Dear Chairman Chung and Members of the County Council:
SUBJECT: Cost Items, United Public Workers
Bargaining Unit 01 and Employees Excluded from BUO1
In accordance with Section 89-10(b), HRS, attached for Council action is a resolution
authorizing the appropriation in future fiscal years of funds to cover the negotiated increases to
cost items agreed to between the employers and the United Public Workers (UPW) for
Bargaining Unit 1 and employees excluded from Bargaining Unit 1, that resulted pursuant to
Section 66.01 of the current UPW Bargaining Unit 1 agreement.
These negotiated increases to the cost items that were originally submitted to Council, cover the
remaining two years of the contract period from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2021. The cost
items presented for your consideration are the result of additional across-the-board increases for
bargaining unit 01 and employees excluded from that bargaining unit.
Attached as an exhibit to the resolution is a schedule showing the total cost of these various
increases over the remaining two years of the contract period.
Due to the statewide implications of this matter and the lead time needed to implement these
changes, we ask that this resolution be waived from the Finance Committee to the full Council
meeting scheduled for June 4, 2019.
Sincerely,
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Harr
Mayor
Attachment — Resolution and Exhibit
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