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Minutes of Meeting
OPEN SESSION
Approved as circulated 11/22/16
Board /Committee:
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Meeting Date
October 25, 2016
Location
Mo'ikeha Building, Liquor Control Commission, Meeting Room
Start of Meeting: 3:00 p.m.
End of Meeting: 3:42 p.m.
3
Present
Chair
John Low; Vice Chair Richard Jose. Members: Fely Faulkner; Elizabeth Hahn (3:02 p.m.); Jeffrey Iida; Karen Matsumoto
Also:
Deputy Attorney Teresa Tumbaga; Boards & Commissions Office Staff Support Clerk Barbara Davis and Administrator Jay
Furfaro; Human Resources Manager Jill Niitani
Excused
Absent
SUBJECT
DISCUSSION
ACTION
Call To
Chair Low called the meeting to order at 3:00
Order /Roll
Call
p.m. with 5 members present.
Approval of
Open Session Minutes of September 27, 2016
Mr. Iida moved to approve the minutes as
Minutes
circulated. Mr. Jose seconded the motion.
Motion carried 5:0
Ms. Hahn entered the meeting.
Director's
CRC 2016 -10 a. October 2016 Director's Report
Report
Jill Niitani, Human Resources Manager, explained that Ms. Rapozo was out of
the office for the week so she would be presenting the Director's Report. In
the past month she reported that in our classification the Labor Relations
Division held repricing meetings on different islands with one being held here
on Kauai. Of the repricing requests that came through none of them were
approved. The other jurisdictions were working on possible classification
actions to be taken to update some of those positions but there were no
repricing changes made from those meetings.
We have also been working on the employee development division on creating
a supervisory training module. We have come up with what we want to do
through the end of this fiscal year for all the different trainin s we want to set
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up so the departments know beforehand what to expect each month and try to
incorporate that with the employee trainings.
The Labor Relations Division has filed for a Declaratory Ruling regarding the
firefighters union. A hearing was scheduled for October 21 st however that is
pending right now. There were petitions submitted by the different other
unions so that has been postponed until January.
This past month we finalized a contract for the Countywide drug and alcohol
testing which was awarded to DLS (Diagnostic Laboratory Services). This
past budget year it was determined that to make sure there was consistency in
the drug and alcohol testing HR would take that over with the exception of
police.
Ms. Hahn said the report said this would include fire and police, so it does not
include police? Ms. Niitani said the budget for the police was not included;
fire was added at the tail end with the second revised budget that was
submitted. Police are being alcohol and drug tested but that is being handled
internally in their own budget.
Mr. Jose asked for an explanation of the petition part on the fire union. Ms.
Niitani said (the union) had submitted proposals to make changes to the
language within the collective bargaining agreement and they were proposing
changes that we believed infringed on management's rights. A Declaratory
Ruling was filed and it has been going back and forth and will probably be
pending for a bit.
Executive
Deputy Attorney Teresa Tumbaga read:
Session
Pursuant to Hawaii Revised Statutes § §92 -4 and
92 -5 (a) (4), 92 -9 (a) (1 -4) and (b), the purpose
of this executive session is to receive and
approve Executive Session minutes, to consider
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the hire, evaluation, dismissal or discipline of an
employee or officer of the County where
consideration of matters affecting privacy will
be involved, provided that if the individual
concerned requests an open meeting, an open
meeting shall be held; and to consult with the
Commission's legal counsel on issues pertaining
to the Commission's and the County's powers,
duties, privileges, immunities, and/or liabilities
as they may relate to this item, deliberate and
take such action as appropriate.
Mr. Jose moved to go into Executive Session at
3:08 p.m. Mr. Iida seconded the motion.
Motion carried 6:0
Attorney Tumbaga stated before the
Commission goes into ES -008 because the
Office of the Attorney General is the
representative of the Commission for those types
of things she would step out for that. She would
come back in for ES -010.
Return to Open
Ratify Commission actions taken in Executive Session for items:
ES -009 and ES -010
Session
Mr. Iida moved to ratify the actions taken on ES-
009 and ES -010. Ms. Hahn seconded the
motion. Motion carried 6:0
Announcements
Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 3:00 p.m.
Adjournment
Mr. Jose moved to adjourn the meeting at 3:42
p.m. Mr. Iida seconded the motion. Motion
carried 6:0
Civil Service Commission
Open Session
October 25, 2016
Submitted by:
MW
Barbara Davis, Staff Support Clerk
O Approved as circulated.
() Approved with amendments. See minutes of
Reviewed and Approved by:
meeting.
John Low, Chair