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Merit Appeals Board <br />February 10, 2021 <br />MS. HUGHES: It was, actually, as an avid (inaudible) HPRit was very, very long but it was <br />actually surprisingly interesting. And thank you for presiding over that—very long meeting and <br />hearing. <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Thank you. Thank you for that. I want to say one more thing about that. <br />So, I'm not an attorney and if there's any background that I would have had that helped me <br />through that adjudication process—it was from my youth where it was pounded into me to study <br />case law. That was something that before the days of Google—and I'm aging myself—it was <br />helping my dad's law firm and it was three different attorneys that I'm thinking of—where they <br />would have to go to the Law Library, but they didn't always do that—sometimes they would <br />send the kids, if you will. <br />So, that was a profound experience for me—last month. I think it is much different and you <br />both, Mr. Ventura and Ms. Hughes, you seen it when we've been in the small room when we're <br />surrounded by the attorney general and we're surrounded by Corp. Counsel—but it's much <br />different sitting up here up on the County Council dais, by our lonesome, watching the screens in <br />front of us—not to mention the personalities that we were adjudicating, along with the <br />personalities of the witnesses. Although hats off to the witnesses. They were absolutely <br />professional and unemotional, which I found that to be a great help. Professionalism takes a <br />room far. <br />But I think I'll walk away with that experience for the rest of my life because I'm not a judge <br />ominous, foreshadowing for Ms. Cabanas. So, having said that, if you've read it, `cause I can't <br />bear to look at it againI will entertain a motion to accept it. <br />MR. VENTURA: I so move. <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Thank you, Mr. Ventura. And a second? <br />MS. HUGHES: Second. <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Thank you, Ms. Hughes. All in favor? <br />AYES: Board Members Cabanas, Hughes, Mathews, Ventura, and Chair Namahoe — 5. <br />NOES: None. <br />ABSENT: None. <br />EXCUSED: None. <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Entering the Shook file, the <br />executive session minutes into the record. Did I need to read out the executive session? <br />MR. YOSHIMOTO: No, Madam Chair, you're good. <br />CHR. NAMAHOE: All right. <br />Page 13 <br />