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Merit Appeals Board <br />December 2, 2021 <br />would be referred to the department and all must be considered by the department for that <br />vacancy. So, they need to all be contacted to see if they're interested in interviewing. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Lee. Mr. Ventura, do you have other questions for Lee? <br />MR. VENTURA: No, that's it. Thank you. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thanks, Mel. What about you, Ms. De Soto, any questions? <br />MS. DE SOTO: No. No questions. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Kate. Ms. Mathews, any questions? <br />MS. MATHEWS: Yes. Back in the written examinationI'm still a little perplexed by this. <br />How much weight does it carry—and I think that's something that Mr. Ventura was trying to <br />establish also. <br />How much weight does that score carry in terms of all the other things that you're looking at <br />with an applicant? And can you describe what this written exam actually covers? <br />MS. BOTELHO: As far as the weight, it—again, it's just used to determine ranking on the list. <br />So, it doesn't—because Applicant A scored 100 percent, it doesn't give them an advantage over <br />Applicant B who scored 98 percent. So, there really is no there' s no weight given to give the <br />applicant, an advantage, other than the their placement or ranking on the eligible list. <br />MS. MATHEWS: So, the person that got a 99 versus the person that got a 98 that 99 <br />because you've already filtered the amount so that their they move forward to the exam, right? <br />MS. BOTELHO: Yes. <br />MS. MATHEWS: So, the person that got a 99 is going to beat out the person that got the 98 <br />by—it's not like you're sending out five names and this all, sort of, the way that this appears <br />part of my concern is—we'll use my husband and I. <br />He sucks at taking a test. I ace them all the time. But you ask both of us a week later about the <br />contact on the exam, he'll have it all down pact and I will have dumped it because all I was <br />doing was passing a test. <br />So, I guess, that's one of my concerns is we've now moved somebody forward based on the fact <br />I could ace the test and he would be the better employee because he retained what you're testing <br />on, which goes back to my question of—what kind of things are on the exam everybody's <br />taking—or is it specific to the kind of job <br />Page 20 <br />