Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation: Establishment and Staff

(a) There is established the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to be placed within the department of business, economic development, and tourism for administrative purposes only. The corporation shall be a public body and a body corporate and politic. (b) The corporation shall employ, exempt from chapter 76 and section 26-35(a)(4), an executive director and an executive assistant. The executive director shall be paid a salary not to exceed the salary of the director of business, economic development, and tourism. The executive assistant shall be paid a salary not to exceed ninety per cent of the executive director's salary. The corporation may employ, subject to chapter 76, technical experts and officers, agents, and employees, permanent and temporary, as required. The corporation may also employ officers, agents, and employees, prescribe their duties and qualifications, and fix their salaries, not subject to chapter 76, when in the determination of the corporation, the services to be performed are unique and essential to the execution of the functions of the corporation. The corporation may call upon the attorney general for legal services as it may require. The corporation may delegate to one or more of its agents or employees its powers and duties as it deems proper. (c) The board shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session immediately following each adjustment of salary of the executive director.