{"id":2823,"date":"2023-03-21T19:10:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T05:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2023-03-21T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T05:21:15","slug":"honolulu-city-hall-wants-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu City Hall wants pay raise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some of the pay raises are significant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/2023\/03\/21\/commissions-recommendation-would-double-salaries-honolulu-city-council-members\/\">City Council<\/a> would at least double its pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-7.02.06-PM-1024x792.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2826\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-7.02.06-PM-1024x792.png 1024w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-7.02.06-PM-470x363.png 470w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-7.02.06-PM-768x594.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-7.02.06-PM-624x482.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-7.02.06-PM.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www4.honolulu.gov\/docushare\/dsweb\/Get\/Document-314918\/2023%20-%20032123%20Salary%20Commission%20Agenda.pdf\">Salary Commission <\/a>meeting this afternoon on March 21, 2023 at 1:30 pm. Did you hear about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was looking for a written testimony section for today&#8217;s Salary Commission Hearing but could not locate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I found one for<a href=\"https:\/\/hnldoc.ehawaii.gov\/hnldoc\/document-download?id=13950\"> 2022<\/a> Hearing. The sentiments were overwhelmingly against the raise.  This year 2023 poses over 100% and more pay raise for City Council members.  Council members like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitv.com\/news\/local\/proposal-considered-to-significantly-increase-the-salary-of-honolulus-elected-officials\/article_21bb9ff8-c6d9-11ed-9fa4-8f74ac04386f.html\">Chair Tommy Waters<\/a> and Radiant Cordera are publicly saying their job is not a part-time job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.47.59-PM-803x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2824\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.47.59-PM-803x1024.png 803w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.47.59-PM-353x450.png 353w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.47.59-PM-768x979.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.47.59-PM-624x796.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.47.59-PM.png 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www4.honolulu.gov\/docushare\/dsweb\/Get\/Document-313891\/MM-017(23).pdf\">Rick Blangiardi&#8217;s<\/a> written testimony to the Honolulu Salary Commission for 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who sits on the Honolulu Salary Commission. If the names look familiar, you&#8217;re not wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-1024x277.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2825\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-1024x277.png 1024w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-470x127.png 470w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-768x208.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-1536x416.png 1536w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-2048x554.png 2048w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-21-at-6.56.42-PM-624x169.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the pay raises are significant. City Council would at least double its pay. There was a Salary Commission meeting this afternoon on March 21, 2023 at 1:30 pm. Did you hear about it? I was looking for a written testimony section for today&#8217;s Salary Commission Hearing but could not locate it. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}