Honolulu City Council Policy Resolutions

ENCOURAGING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A TELEWORK PROGRAM FOR CITY EMPLOYEES AT THE HAWAII TELEWORK CENTER.

    WHEREAS, the Council of the City and County of Honolulu finds that there are innovative, noncapital-intensive means of reducing traffic congestion in the City, which include teleworking and other measures to reduce work, business and public travel on our streets and highways; and

    WHEREAS, the State Department of Transportation has implemented a highly successful Hawaii Telework Demonstration Project, initially involving seventeen employees from State government agencies and from private sector companies, at the Hawaii Telework Center in Mililani, the objectives of which are to reduce commuting travel, and to produce other employer, employee, social, economic, energy and environmental benefits; and

    WHEREAS, as expected, preliminary findings reported in September 1990 by the State Department of Transportation in its Evaluation of the Hawaii Telework Center Demonstration Project indicate that teleworking is a feasible method of combining computers and telecommunications technology at multi-station telework centers to move work on "electronic highways," instead of people on "asphalt highways," thereby demonstrating the efficacy of remote work concepts, and affirming that government, business, and workforce efficiency and productivity can be equalled and, much more likely than not exceeded, by substituting communications for transportation; and

    WHEREAS, the Council further finds that the implementation of active City participation in a teleworking program at the Hawaii Telework Center, as encouraged herein, would be generally consistent with a broad range of objectives and policies set forth in the General Plan for the City and County of Honolulu; especially, to wit:

    Transportation and Utilities

        Objective A, Policy 9:

            "Promote programs to reduce dependence on the use of automobiles."

    and

        Objective A, Policy 10:

            "Discourage the inefficient use of the private automobile, especially in congested corridors and during peak hours."

    and

        Objective D, Policy 3:

            "Encourage the study and use of telecommunications as an alternative to conventional transportation facilities;"
and

    WHEREAS, to the maximum extent practicable, the City should lead by example by actively pursuing City employee participation in the Hawaii Telework Center, subject to the formulation of a suitable and equitable arrangement whereby the City will assume no more than its fair share of any costs arising from such participation; now, therefore,

    BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City and County of Honolulu that it declare, and it is hereby so declared, to be the policy of the City and County of Honolulu that with the assistance of the Managing Director, each City department or agency develop an employee teleworking plan, and agency policies and procedures governing employee teleworking, to ensure maximum appropriate City employee participation in teleworking at the Hawaii Telework Center or at other suitable telework locations; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Managing Director be requested and authorized, and is hereby so requested and authorized, to act as the City's telework liaison with the State Department of Transportation, the Hawaii Telework Center, and with any other government agency or private entity deemed necessary, to develop, utilizing the teleworking knowledge and expertise of these agencies and entities, a draft umbrella plan and agreement for City participation in the Hawaii Telework Center program; and

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the umbrella plan and agreement referenced herein contain provisions requiring the submission of quarterly reports by the Managing Director to the Council, for the first year of the City's participation following the date of this Resolution's adoption, and thenceforth the submission of annual reports to the Council on the anniversary date of this Resolution's adoption, outlining the level of the City's teleworking participation and activities, and any recommendations deemed necessary or desirable to further implement and enhance teleworking by City employees; and

                        INTRODUCED BY:

                        Rene Mansho

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                                Councilmembers

DATE OF INTRODUCTION:

February 14, 1991
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Honolulu, Hawaii

ADOPTED this 10 day of April , 1991.

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