2021-12-02 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 2, 2021 maybe, to create new sectionswe, kind of, help them with that process with the positions if that involves creating new classes of work. We, kind of, facilitate—we help them with that process. We also do maintenance reviews. So, if we notice—there are concerns that are brought up, we in the Department of Human Resources, it can initiate a maintenance review where we'll go in and review existing classes or series to just try to make sure that we're ensuring that things are just working properly. We also assist with the Salary Ordinance, which is the Pay Plan for our positions in, like, Housing—special positions in County Clerk's office. And, like I mentioned earlier, we're the point of contact for the other jurisdictions so we are responsible for answering questions that they may have of our existing classes, our existing structures. We provide them information upon request. And we answer questions, as needed, if they have questions about our specific departments organizational structures. We can explain certain things and, kind of, be their point -of -contact within the County of Hawaii. And then, we also provide various trainings to departments to assist their supervisors or their HR reps. when it comes to helping them maintain their org. charts, position descriptions, and just other various trainings to assist them. I know that wasn't 15 -minutes, but that's just kind of an overview of what we assist the departments with. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Jamie. On the appeal form that a person would complete MS. MARTINEZ: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: There's the Merit Appeals Board has different—well, on the appeal form itself, we have a section what governs the jurisdiction for the Merit Appeals Board. We have recruitment and exam., we have classification action, and there's one box, I think, for initial pricing. So, because that term is listed there, I just kind of feel like—could you explain to the Board what that term "initial pricing" means— MS. MARTINEZ: So CHR. CABANAS: —and the difference between initial pricing and repricing, so the Board will have that knowledge base. MS. MARTINEZ: Sure. So, in the process of creating a new class of work, right, so something that currently doesn't exist in our Compensation Plan. Part of the process in working with the other the jurisdictions is that we—in Classification and Pay—determine the pricing of a class. Page 9