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Merit Appeals Board February 21, 2018 <br />Addendum to the Agenda (Item 2) <br />There was none. <br />Statements from the Public (Item 3) <br />CHR. TULANG: And we have some statements from the public. The first up is Lincoln Ashida. <br />MR. ASHIDA: Is it alphabetical? <br />CHR. TULANG: I don't knowI have the numbers on the bottom here. <br />MR. ONO: Wow, now I got to change my name. <br />MR. ASHIDA: I sold my space to Mr. Ono. <br />MR. ONO: A -Ono. <br />CHR. TULANG: It says "Speaker Number 1" welcome. <br />MR. ASHIDA: Thank you, Chair Tulang, Members of the Merit Appeals Board thank you for <br />hearing my testimony this morning. It's much appreciated. <br />I came here today unsolicited. Throughout this process Bill never asked me to come forward <br />but, instead, when I read about some of the problems that the County was having, I decided I <br />wanted to come forward. And today I come before you speaking in strong support of <br />Bill Brilhante being appointed the next Director of Human Resources for the County of Hawaii. <br />And to be very succinct, which is not characteristic of me but I will be today. I thought about <br />the reasons why I support Bill. And it was down to two thingsI like him and I trust him. And <br />the reason why I think liking him is important is because that translates to approachability. <br />I've known Bill for well over 10 years. We hired him at Corporation Counsel. I recruited him <br />from the Attorney General's office at the time, to come work at the Corporation Counsel's <br />office. And one thing that I think that all of the staff will say at our office is that he is a likable <br />guy. But I think as a human resource director—why that's an important quality is <br />approachability. I mean, I think he's a guy that not only can staff talk to, not only can council or <br />the mayor interact positively with—but, also, if you have—let's say, you have an employee <br />down at a blue collar employee of the County—on a Sunday, sees Bill at Wal-Mart or sees him <br />at HomeDepot. Bill is the type of guy that you can approach. You can come up and say, "Eh, <br />Bill, you got a minute? I got I like talk to you about something." And that's how I see this <br />role as being someone who is not only the director who's accountable to the Merit Appeals <br />Board not only the director who's accountable to the County, to the Mayor, and the Council <br />but accountable to every single employee of the County no matter what their rank or their file <br />within the County. And I think that approachability, I think, is key. <br />Page 2 <br />