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Merit Appeals Board <br />February 2, 2022 <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you. Any questions from anyone? No. Okay, continue, <br />Waylen. <br />Mileage Reimbursement Update <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: The last item on my director's report, which I hate to bring up on my <br />interview day, but I'm going to take it. <br />The mileage reimbursement update, I do want to apologize for my initial communication on that. <br />We areI'm also glad to say that we can offer—we have, based on law, we are required to <br />provide mileage reim travel expenses, which include mileage reimbursement to the Merit <br />Appeals Board. <br />So, we are going to retro your reimbursement request for mileage, going back from the point we <br />had requested to stop it. So, that's my update and I have a memo in your packet to describe my <br />rescinding of that—of your mileage reimbursements. So, I'm happy to announce that we can <br />move forward and provide mileage reimbursement. <br />CHR. CABANAS: And I want to thank you, Waylen, for following up on that and also from the <br />Office of the Corporation Counsel for researching it because we do have Board members that <br />travel far. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. <br />CHR. CABANAS: And because this is, they're here on a volunteer basis, it's only right that <br />they get their mileage reimbursement. So, thank you for doing that, and thank you, your staff, <br />and thank you to the Office of the Corporation Counsel for their research on that. Thank you. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: You're welcome. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Any question—other questions for the Acting Director? <br />MS. MATHEWS: Actually, I have one. Based on understanding that the budget is always a <br />challenge, where did you have to steal this money from in order to pay the Board members. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: As I mentioned earlier, if you're nice to the finance director—our finance <br />director, she's amazing because when it was proposed to her by Corporation Counsel that is <br />mandated by law, she responded and looked for the money and was able to put it back into our <br />budget. <br />So, it wasn't anything we had to cut additionally. She knows it's mandated by law, so she had to <br />do her magic and find the money to put back into our budget. So, it wasn't anything extra in our <br />budget. <br />Page 10 <br />