2019-12-18 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 18, 2019 RECONVENE: The meeting reconvened at 12:34 p.m. CHR. NAMAHOE: So, we are—where was I—providing you the survey, the numeric data, right. MR. BRILHANTE: What—Glynis provided that to me. CHR. NAMAHOE: Okay, thank you. MR. BRILHANTE: Thank you. Unfinished Business (for discussion and appropriate action) (Item 7) (There was none.) Director's Report(Item 8) HR Quarterly Reports: April–June 2019 And July–September 2019; And General Update Re Bargaining Units CHR. NAMAHOE: Hang on. Mahalo, J. Director's Report MR. YOSHIMOTO: Yeah, he would do his director's report. I think that's where we're at. CHR. NAMAHOE: So, Section number 8—HR Quarterly Report. MR. BRILHANTE: Thank you very much for allowing me to present my—this portion of the agenda to you, which is the December 4th Quarter Director's MAB Report. First, I have seven items I was just going touch upon briefly. I, kind of, mentioned or alluded to them in my—in various parts of my evaluation. But the first item is revisions to the hiring procedures. As I mentioned before, we've taken the skillset review process from the departments where we would forward anywhere from 40, 50, 60, 2-300 names—for a specific position to the department for them to conduct their evaluation and assessment. We are bringing that process in-house. We're going to give exams, we're going to conduct the evaluation, we have—we expanded our recruitment and evaluation division—and examination division. We now have three specialists working under a manager, Waylen Leopoldino. He has three specialists under them. They've divvied up the departments and they'll be the ones conducting the evaluations, monitoring any exams—written exams that are taking place, and they will go to the education and experience evaluation. The criteria are going to be more standardized across-the-board. And what we'll do is we'll evaluate, we'll go in and examine all of the applicants. And what we're going to do for the Page 20