City employees Roughly 200 city employees -- including the chiefs of three major agencies -- will relocate from the Honolulu Municipal Building to the new Kapolei Hale this summer under a plan formally announced by the administration of Mayor Jeremy Harris yesterday.
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Star-BulletinTentatively slated to move are:
>> Administrative offices and the refuse and environmental quality divisions of the Department of Environmental Services now.
>> Administrative and management functions of the Parks and Recreation Department, as well as its division of parks maintenance and recreation services.
>> Administrative functions of the Department of Facilities Maintenance.
>> Rehabilitation loan and service and rental assistance branches of the Department of Community Services.
>> Leeward region building and electrical inspectors of the Department of Planning and Permitting.
>> Appraisers, cartographic technicians and others in the Real Property Assessment Division of the Budget and Fiscal Services Department who are assigned to the Leeward and Central areas.
City Managing Director Ben Lee met yesterday with those proposed to be affected. He said the administration must still reach an agreement with the Hawaii Government Employees Association, which represents most white collar city workers. The plan includes the option for employees to "job swap" with those in similar positions but not slated to move.
"We'll be flexible in terms of any hardships," Lee said.
HGEA officials say environmental services employees have begun a petition against the move.
The tentative plan calls for the relocations to take place in mid-August and mid-October for the second and third floors, respectively. There are 206 positions slated to go but only 188 are actual warm bodies. The other 18 are unfilled.
The relocated would join about 18 Department of Customer Services employees who have operated out of the first floor of Kapolei Hale since February.
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