2019-12-18 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 18, 2019 was a topic of in—that was on the front page of the newspaper. So, we had—there was some concerns regarding the hiring process with the County in the past. It is what it is. So, what we did was we looked at the—myself and my recruitment and examination staff—we looked at the policies and procedures and we made a determination that we're going to revise. We're going to move away from the skillset selection process, which the departments made their own subjective-type determination as to who would qualify and that was made by department- by-department. We're moving the process back. It's going to be back to centralized screening and evaluation of applicants. We're going to go back to what is called Education and Experience—E&E. We're going to set requirements as it relates to education and experience. And we're going to go back to the exam—the civil service exam for highly recruited classes of work—clerical type work, custodian, park caretaker—those type of classes of work where we have high interest, high demand. We're going to go back to testing. That's going to make us being in compliance with the other three jurisdictions. The HRS has a sentence in the—their chapters that testing for civil service positions shall be effectuated. And so, we're—that's the criteria—that's the basis for us moving forward. It's going to be more of an objective standard. It's going to be done centrally here in-house, it'd be more uniformity, more consistency going forward. And, like I said, it'll bring us in alignment with the other jurisdictions as well. We were unique, we were an outlier as it related to our previous hiring practices. So, I think it's been well-received by everybody and I think it's a good thing going forward. We've already drafted rules. They're in place, We had public hearing. Of course, nobody showed up for the public hearing—that means it must have been good. That's how I look at that. CHR. NAMAHOE: Awesome. MR. BRILHANTE: So—and then, implementation, actually, is this past Monday, the 16th. So, we're on board with it going forward. Those are my goals for this coming year. CHR. NAMAHOE: Any feedback for Mr. Brilhante? No? MR. TAM: Nope. MR. CHILLINGWORTH: No. CHR. NAMAHOE: Well, thank you, sir. MR. BRILHANTE: Okay. No—thank you very much. I appreciate the time. And what's the— Page 15