Hello, and good afternoon, everyone.

It's two thirty four PM on Thursday, October twenty second, twenty twenty-six, and I call the committee on government efficiency and customer services meeting to order.

I'd like to welcome Committee Vice Chair Weyer and Council Members Cordero and Nishimoto.

Pursuant to section ninety two dash three point seven of Hawaii or by statutes, this meeting will be conducted as a remote meeting by interactive conference technology with the following procedures in effect for the meeting.

Members of the public will be allowed to provide oral testimony on all items on the agenda in person in the council chamber and remotely when each agenda item is taken up.

As both English and Hawaiian are official languages of the state of Hawaii, pursuant to Article fifteen section four of the Hawaii State Constitution and Section One-13 of the Hawaii revised statutes.

Members of the public may testify in either language for oral testimonies offered in Olelo, Hawaii.

Additional time as may be necessary, will be allowed for the testifier to provide an English translation of their testimony.

Before testifying, each person shall state their name, each speaker may not have anyone else read their statement, and is limited to a one-minute presentation on each item.

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When the timer goes off, please conclude your remarks promptly.

Persons who have not registered will be given an opportunity to testify following the registered testifiers.

Once in-person testimony is concluded, I'll proceed to remote testimony.

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And when the timer on screen reaches zero, please conclude your remarks promptly.

HRS Section 92-3.7 requires all votes at remote meetings to be conducted by roll call vote unless unanimous.

Therefore, I'll first call for objections, and if there are any, I'll call for a roll call vote.

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As a courtesy, please turn off or silence all cell phones for the duration of this meeting.

Thank you.

So members, we have agenda item number one.

This is resolution 26-227.

This resolution accepts a gift to the City of Travel and Related Expenses valued at $3,000 from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators for representative from the Department of Customer Services to attend the 2026 AMVA Region 4 Administrator and Law Enforcement Officials meeting in Monterey, California from December 1st to December 2nd, 2026.

We have with us the program administrator with the Department of Customer Services, William Trujillo.

Good afternoon, William Trujillo, DMV Program Administrator for the City and Connie of Honolulu.

I'm here to answer any questions regarding the request.

Members, are there any questions on this resolution?

Okay.

Hearing none, thank you.

We'll proceed with testimony.

Clerks, is there anyone here in the chambers or uh remotely standing by to testify?

Chair, there are none.

Okay, there being none, we'll close testimony on this.

Members were in discussion.

Any discussion on this agenda item.

Hearing none, the chair recommends that resolution 22-227 be reported out for adoption.

Any discussion, objections, or reservations?

Hearing none.

So ordered.

We now move on to agenda item number two, which is a report from the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services procurement process improvement project.

Members joining us in the chamber today to give a brief presentation are Paula Youngling, Central Purchasing and Contracts Administrator of the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services.

We're also joined by David Ledbetter Jr.

Principal and Abigail Starr, manager of Barry Dunn McNeil and Parker LLC.

For your information, the presentation is available online as Departmental Communication 660.

Good afternoon.

My name is Paula Youngling, and I'm the purchasing administrator for the city and county of Honolulu.

I want to thank you, Chair Dosantos TAM, for allowing us to come here today.

Also thank uh Vice Chair uh Wire uh and the committee members.

Uh we're very excited to be here today to provide you all an update on uh the purchasing division's procurement process improvement project.

Um, we uh I I'm joined here today by uh Miss Carrie Castle, the deputy director of budget and fiscal services, as well as uh my assistant administrator, Kelsey Imamura, and then also Mr.

David Ledbetter from Barrie Dunn McNeil Parker, who will be presenting our uh implementation strategy as well as uh background on our project that's been going on for uh over a year now.