2021-02-10 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board February 10, 2021 forward to meeting with you any time on a social basis. So, finally, thank you and I appreciate everything you have done for our Department. CHR. NAMAHOE: Thank you, Mr. Brilhante, that I very much appreciated what you just said. I brought something here today. If I could take—if I can take two minutes of your time and just, kind of, swerve the conversation. You mind? Am I allowed to? Can I add comments in before we schedule the next meeting, Mr. Yoshimoto? Always ask the lawyer. MR. YOSHIMOTO: This will be under "Announcements." CHR. NAMAHOE: Okay, fine. All right. Going back to announcements. So, I brought with me—and I don't know if Mr. Ventura and Ms. Hughes can see it, but I will send a link of it to Glynis. And that is MS. HUGHES: It's a little too far away but thank you, whoever is zooming it I see, I think, a book. CHR. NAMAHOE: It's a book. I'll leave it right here. Gosh, I should get money for this from these guys—from the publisher. And I should get a ponytail. Okay. Anyhow. There are a handful of commissions and boards for the County of Hawaii where the director is not chosen nor serves at the pleasure of the sitting mayor. They are hired and fired, if you will, by their commission—and that is Police, Fire, Human Resources, Board of WaterI believe one more—Liquor? Okay. So, Police, Fire, Board of Water, Liquor, and Human Resources. Of those five, I had the opportunity of serving on two of these commissions or boardsI don't know which term would be the more generic one—one was a commission, the other was a board. I'll just call them "commissions" for the sake. Where these commissions are populated volunteers. We are nominated by the mayors and we are approved or we are declined by County Council. And that, I think, is par for the course whether it's county, state, or federal level. We're seeing it right now on cable news, in fact. But the opportunity that I had in each of these commissions included the hiring process and the hiring of the sitting directors of those respective boar those respective departments. This book, here, helped us get through it. Although I've been working for HMSA for over ten years, prior to that, I worked for a company that was a payroll company, a workers' compensation company, and a law firm under one hood. And the HR recruiter happened to be tucked away in Hilo for this statewide company. She was tucked away in Hilo and she worked—she shared an office with me. And this was the book that that company relied on because there are not many resources available—and even online if you look for them that will help corporations hire CEO's. A fire chief is a CEO, the human resources director is a CEO. I've had the opportunity to see good and not so good interviewing processes. Page 15