2022-03-10 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 10, 2022 MR. LEOPOLDINO: I'm so glad you brought that up because I totally missed one huge part of the staffing. I was approved for an HR Project Coordinator contract position through the end of this year. And we interviewed this person and he's accepted. He is going to be—he's going to work in all—it's a position that's going to crossover all of our divisions to incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion. Two main deliverables we want in this contract is he's going to be working with the mayor's office. The mayor's office has a Public Relations Specialist and I don't know if you guys know Barrett Otani, but he's another Executive Assistant for the mayor that's what they're great at is doing commercials and videos and promoting the County. So, this position is actually going to be working with the two of them. We've already started discussions. We've already, kind of, did storyboards. So, that project has already, kind of, started. So, they're going to be working on developing a commercial -like setup where it's going to be highlighting the County to promote all of the things we, kind of, discussed today—why it's great to work for the County, giving back to the community—highlighting all of these non - monetary type benefits for working for the County. And so, that's going to be a project that's going underway relatively quickly. The second piece is a major job fair sponsored by the County. This person will help facilitate one in Hilo and one in Kona by the end of this fiscal year. I was actually going to do a presentation on it, more formally, as we flesh that out once this person is on -board. But there's other projects like social—we've already started working with LinkedIn. We're going to be looking at other social media venues. So, it's actually a big project and I'mI purposely didn't go into it here because I want to present more formal in the future, but we did get a person and that's exactly what we're going to be doing. So, thank you for reminding me, Charlie. MR. KUNZ: You're welcome. And I think when we all see these commercials that are local commercials that go around the State they're extremely polished. Not something that we have a local producer on a low budget. I mean, something you have to spend money on to highlight everything from the movement to who's present doing it, and then the type of jobs in the the narrative, the voice—everything that has everything to do with usI mean, it appealing to the public. And I think it's something that, in 30 -seconds, can be captured and super beneficial for, I think, recruitment. Thanks, Waylen. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yeah. And we're really excited about that project, `cause it's something fun for our department to look forward to as well. So, thank you. Page 28