The RCUH Training Portal will be down for system enhancements on Friday, August 21, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

The RCUH Financial Portal will be down for system maintenance from Thursday, August 20, 2020, 9:00 p.m. to Friday, August 21, 2020, 4:00 a.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

*UPDATE 8/20/20: The RCUH phones at the Manoa Innovation Center are back online.

RCUH phones are currently down at the Manoa Innovation Center office location, affecting staff in Accounting, Project Administration, and Corporate Services. If you need to communicate with employees from any of these sections, please reach out via email.

If you’re unsure of who to contact, you may refer to the staff listing in the RCUH Financial Portal or Employee Self-Service, or you may contact [email protected] for assistance.

The 2020 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year Awards encourage, recognize, and reward RCUH employees who have made demonstrable, significant, and exemplary contributions to their project during the past fiscal year (July 2019–June 2020) or years.

RECOGNITIONS

Three award categories are available:

1. Researcher/Project Manager/Professional (exempt status position)
2. Project Support Staff (non-exempt status position)
3. Team (2–5 staff in exempt and/or non-exempt Regular-status positions) 

AWARDS

• $1,000 to the first place awardee in each category
• $500 to the second place awardee in each category
• Team awards for first and second place will be shared equally among team members

All nominees and awardees will be announced in the fall. (We have suspended the nominee videos and awards luncheon for this year.)

NOMINATION

A Principal Investigator may submit one nomination. PIs may re-nominate an employee who did not place first or second in a previous year. Team nominations are limited to no more than five individuals.

DEADLINE

The deadline to submit a nomination is Tuesday, September 8, 2020.  Email your nomination to RCUH Corporate Services at [email protected]. Click here for the nomination form.

For more information, please refer to policy 3.450 Outstanding Employees of the Year Awards or contact RCUH Corporate Services at [email protected] or 808-988-8314.

Project Title	To provide legal services related to employment, to the RCUH Corporate Office.
Selected Consultant	Barry W. Marr, Esq. (Marr Jones & Wang)
Contract Amount	$50,000.00
Date of Award	July 10, 2020
Consultants Considered (ranked candidates only)	Richard M. Rand (Marr Jones & Wang); Sarah O. Wang (Marr Jones & Wang); Christopher J. Cole (Marr Jones & Wang); Patrick H. Jones (Marr Jones & Wang); Kristi O’Heron (Marr Jones & Wang); Newton J. Chu (Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington Harris & Knorek); Christopher S.Y. Yeh (Marr Jones & Wang); Megumi Sakae (Marr Jones & Wang); Eileen C. Zorc (Marr Jones & Wang); Cecily D.M. Kaya (Marr Jones & Wang); Andrea L. Miyashita (Marr Jones & Wang).
Appointing Officer	Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.
Project Title	To provide legal services related to maritime/admiralty, to the RCUH Corporate Office.
Selected Consultant	Michael J. Nakano, Esq. (Cox Wootton Lerner Griffin & Hansen)
Contract Amount	$20,000.00
Date of Award	July 13, 2020
Consultants Considered (ranked candidates only)	No other submissions.
Appointing Officer	Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.
Project Title	To provide legal services related to immigration, to the RCUH Corporate Office.
Selected Consultant	Newton J. Chu, Esq. (Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington Harris & Knorek)
Contract Amount	$15,000.00
Date of Award	July 10, 2020
Consultants Considered (ranked candidates only)	Vaughn G.T. Cook (Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington Harris & Knorek)
Appointing Officer	Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.
Project Title	To provide legal services related to employee benefits/taxes, to the RCUH Corporate Office.
Selected Consultant	Joseph D’Amato, Esq. (D’Amato & Maloney)
Contract Amount	$40,000.00
Date of Award	July 10, 2020
Consultants Considered (ranked candidates only)	No other applicants in the specialty area of employee benefits.  Other applicants in the general employment field included:  Barry W. Marr, Esq. (Marr Jones & Wang); Richard M. Rand (Marr Jones & Wang); Sarah O. Wang (Marr Jones & Wang); Christopher J. Cole (Marr Jones & Wang); Patrick H. Jones (Marr Jones & Wang); Kristi O’Heron (Marr Jones & Wang); Newton J. Chu (Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington Harris & Knorek); Christopher S.Y. Yeh (Marr Jones & Wang); Megumi Sakae (Marr Jones & Wang); Eileen C. Zorc (Marr Jones & Wang); Cecily D.M. Kaya (Marr Jones & Wang); Andrea L. Miyashita (Marr Jones & Wang).
Appointing Officer	Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.
Project Title	To provide legal services related to taxes and payroll, to the RCUH Corporate Office.
Selected Consultant	Vaughn G.T. Cook (Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington Harris & Knorek)
Contract Amount	$15,000.00
Date of Award	July 10, 2020
Consultants Considered (ranked candidates only)	John J. D’Amato (D’Amato & Maloney) (employee benefits tax only)
Appointing Officer	Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.

All transactions in the RCUH Financial Portal begin with a vendor record. Searching for a vendor record, what is needed to create one, why a record is purged, and how to complete U.S. and foreign vendor registration forms are all covered in this new three-module course.

For questions on this training, please contact Charlene Gibo at [email protected] or (808) 956-3208.

The RCUH fiscal year-end processing has been completed. You may now approve online purchase orders, payments, and travel in the Financial Portal. The first check run for Fiscal Year 2021 will be on Monday, July 6, 2020 at 4:00 PM.

UH Project Fiscal Reports may reflect incorrect amounts and balances until KFS is opened for FY 2021. Until KFS is opened for FY 2021, please use the Mass Printing Reports to access the UH Project Fiscal Reports as of June 2020 and earlier.

Reminder: Service dates are required for all payment transactions through Monday, August 31. For payments approved after July 31, $100,000 or greater, and with service dates of June 30 or earlier, please complete the attached RCUH AP Worksheet. Please include estimates or projections for invoices that have not been received as of July 31. Please email your worksheet to Staci Murata at [email protected] by Monday, August 3.

Please refer to the Thursday, June 18 General Announcement on Service Dates for more information.

RCUH added 43 new online courses to the Training Portal, including courses such as:

• Presenting Compelling Proposals 2.0,
• Master the Art of Negotiating 2.0,
• Reducing the Spread of Infection 1.0,
• Managing Your Remote Workers 1.0, and
• the Little Life Savers series.

Click here to view a complete list of courses. If you need access to the RCUH Training Portal, please complete the online request form. You may also email [email protected] if you have any questions.

Do you have project photos to share? This is a call for photos that could be featured in the next RCUH annual report, in training videos, or in other printed materials we produce. Please submit your photos with the attached form to [email protected], so we can properly caption the photos and include photo credits.  Deadline: August 31, 2020.

The fiscal year-end cutoff for RCUH online payment transactions is 12:00 noon on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. All online payment transactions processed after Tuesday, June 30, through Monday, August 31, will require service dates. The service date format is MM/DD/YY.

For payments that will be processed or approved after Friday, July 31, 2020, are $100,000 or greater, and have service dates of June 30, 2020 or earlier, please complete the attached RCUH AP Worksheet. Please include estimates or projections for invoices that have not been received as of July 31. Please email your worksheet to Staci Murata at [email protected] by Monday, August 3. If there are no payments to report, please email Staci to report that there are no items by Monday, August 3.

A service date field is provided on all payment forms and is identified with the heading “S/D”. The service date is the date goods are received or services are performed. For certain types of payments, including travel completions, petty cash reimbursements, extended services, etc., the service date entered should be the last day of the period covered by the payment. However, if the service period covers multiple fiscal years, allocate costs in each fiscal year incurred (i.e., if the service period is from June 1, 2020 to July 31, 2020, record costs incurred from June 1 to June 30 with a 06/30/20 service date and costs incurred from July 1 to July 31 with a 07/31/20 service date).

This information is needed to ensure that RCUH liabilities are properly reported as of June 30, 2020. Our auditors, N&K CPAs Inc., will be reviewing selected documents processed during this period as part of their audit procedures. Accordingly, please be advised that we may be requesting copies of payment documents for review.

Please contact Maile Brooks at 988-8340 or [email protected] if you have any questions. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.