2018-03-29 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 29, 2018 So, once we got that okay, we set the hearing date for the public hearing. So, the hearing dates, we're going to have one hearing. It's going to be held both in Hilo and Kona. It's on April 27h at 1 p.m. In Hilo, it'll be at the Hilo Council Room—and then if—for Kona participants, they can go to the Kona the West Hawaii Civic Center, the Council Office. And what we're going to do is we're going to video stream the two locations. Well, the Kona location into Hilo, so everybody—island-wide participation. Somebody wants to give input, they don't have to drive from West Hawaii—once they give input, they don't have to drive all the way into Hilo, it can be through Kona. So, that's going to be on April 27h and the Rules revisions are currently on the County website—we have the ramseyer format, which identifies that the portions that were removed have a line through them and the language that was added, the requirements added, have—are underscore with underline. So, we have that on the County website and we also have a version of what the final Rules would look like once all those revisions are incorporated into the document. We put a notice in the newspaper this past Wednesday, so the public was provided notice and the rest are on our website. So, that going forward, we're hoping that we'll be able to satisfy one of the specific requirements that willa recommendation from the audit. Any questions about that? MR. MASUDA: No, go ahead. MS. NAMAHOE: No, no, no, you first. MR. MASUDA: So, Bill, just out of curiosity. So, you said you're going to generate 10 names off the lottery and are you immediately generating another 10? Or you're waiting for the MR. BRILHANTE: No, no, no—we're going to run the pool for a second 10 at that time also. And it's per position. So, then— MR. MASUDA: So, you're not going to wait for them to exhaust the 10 and run it again? MR. BRILHANTE: No, we're not going to—we'll wait to forward those 10 names. But we just want to—what we want to do is just ensureso, that way, we don't have to always have the two people and go through that whole process with the selection, `cause that's, kind of—it's—to have the two people witness the filtering process and sitting there at the desk—what we wanted to do was just for just to make the process simpler and more effective. We decided that we'll do the first 10 names will be randomly generated, initially, and then they'll do a second query for the second 10 names, which will be the first 10 names will be removed from that— MR. hat MR. MASUDA: And that's just a computer query, right? Page 15