What travel and other job-related costs the county will pay for

(a) Other allowable expenses include airfare, ground transportation (including tips), airport parking, business telephone calls, secretarial fees, registration fees, mileage claim for use of a private automobile and any expense relating to the conduct of official business. (b) Rental cost of U-drive cars and parking charges shall not exceed $75 a day. U-drive cars may be used for personal business incidental to official travel; e.g., driving to restaurant for meals. The department head shall assure that funds are available and that rental is necessary and cost is reasonable. (c) Air travel shall be on commercial airlines at the economy class by the most direct route to and from the points specified in the travel authorization; provided that inter-island and intra-county travel by noncommercial and nonscheduled private aircraft (owned or rented) is authorized under the following conditions: (1) The pilot must possess a current private pilot’s certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration; (2) The aircraft must possess a current certificate of airworthiness issued by the Federal Aviation Administration; (3) The aircraft must carry the following liability insurance: (A) Bodily injury liability (excluding passenger) — $100,000 for each person and $300,000 for each occurrence. (B) Property damage liability — $100,000 for each occurrence. Intentionally left blank. SUPP. 18 (7-2025) 2-46.2 ADMINISTRATION § 2-97 (C) Passenger bodily injury insurance — $100,000 for each person. (D) The County of Hawai‘i shall be named as additional insured under the policy. (4) Payment for such travel by private aircraft shall be made at rates that traveler would have had to pay had the traveler traveled on scheduled, commercial airlines. Additional passengers will be paid the difference between the first traveler’s payment and the operating cost of the privately owned aircraft or rental cost of a rented aircraft.