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1985 Hawaii Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1985)

handle is hein.sag/saghi0034 and id is 1 raw text is: MICHAEL A. LILLY ATTORNEY GENEIRAL coltlNNE K.A WATANAGE DEPARTMENT DFPUTE ATTORNEY GENERAL STATE CAPITOL HONOLULU. HAWAII #413 (oDn) 64-4740 January 25, 1985 The Honorable Milton Holt Senator, Eighteenth District Thirteenth Legislature State of Hawaii State Capitol, Room 232 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Dear Senator Holt: Re: Compensation of the UH President This is in response to your oral request for our opinion as to whether a State employee may accept supplemental compensation paid with private donations for performing said employee's official public duties. Briefly, we understand the facts to be as follows: The Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii (sometimes referred to herein as UH) is proposing a compensation package for the Board's candidate for the office of UH President consisting of, among other things, the following: an annual salary of $E0,000 and an array of fringe benefits such as life insurance, health and dental insurance, disability insurance, and an annuity for retirement benefits. While the annual $80,000 salary will be paid out of public funds appropriated to the UH by the Hawaii State Legislature, the aforesaid fringe benefits will be paid by The University of Hawaii Foundation (Foundation)V/, on behalf of 1 The University of Hawaii Foundation is a Hawaii non- profit corporation established in 1955 to further the following Objects and purposes, as set forth in art. 3 of its Charter of Incorporation: [T]o benefit the University of Hawaii, its faculty and students; to improve its standards and potentialities as an institution of higher larning and its usefulness in Hawaii; to grant scholarships, loans, and other assistance to young men and women of promise; to encourage and provide funds for research; to provide funds for the expenditure by the Op. No. 85-1