Money originally earmarked for raises for Kaua’i County’s mayor and other officials will now be spent putting the county’s updated General Plan into action. The County Council agreed Thursday to reduce appropriations by $100,000 in the collective-bargaining raises account in
Money originally earmarked for raises for Kaua’i County’s mayor and other
officials will now be spent putting the county’s updated General Plan into
action.
The County Council agreed Thursday to reduce appropriations by
$100,000 in the collective-bargaining raises account in the general fund and
transfer the money to aid the implementation of the General Plan.
Of the
total transfer, $90,000 will be for studies by the county’s Planning Department
for enacting the recently approved GP and preparing for the upcoming CZO
update.
The other $10,000 will be used for lobbying of the
Legislature.
Officials said the money does not come from any funds that
might be needed for paying union wages of county employees, despite the
collective bargaining header on the account.
“That’s just the name of the
account where those monies are. It would have been used for department head
raises, and that didn’t happen,” county clerk Peter Nakamura said.
Proposed raises for the mayor, prosecuting attorney and county department
heads and deputies were buried in committee by the council six weeks
ago.
Staff writer Dennis Wilken can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 252)
and dwilken@pulitzer.net