2022-05-16 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board May 16, 2022 MR. LEOPOLDINO: Thank you. I do want to make a comment that this is not a set list. As it's updated we will, definitely, make sure the Board gets a copy of that. And I totally agree with you, Member Mathews, we—as a director—as a new director coming in, I, myself, had to navigate the waters with these acronyms and these terms. So, I feel like it's very important that we have some sort of manual put together. So, thank you for that comment. CHR. CABANAS: Anyone else? Ms. De Soto. MS. DE SOTO: Yeah. I was just going to request if we could keep this in our binder—our regular binders, so we can reference it as we (inaudible). CHR. CABANAS: Yes, I think that's appropriate. For your reference, and you can always look at it, especially when we have appeal hearings because we need to be pretty much familiar with terminology that both sides the County and the appellant—utilizes. And so, yeah, that's a good suggestion to keep it handy for your reference. Mr. Ventura, any comments or questions? MR. VENTURA: No questions. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you. Waylen, I just want to thank you for preparing this for the Board. I agree with the Board members that this should be something that each new Board member receives when—and when they get an orientation from the Office of the Corporation Counsel, you can prepare the terminology and acronyms. I would like, for the record, though, for you to just acknowledge the source of these because they're this is not something that you're making up, right. I know you're not. So, could you please explain to the Board your reference. Where are these terminology and acronyms coming from because they're coming from somewhere. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. Thank you. So the terminology that we complied, we do have a DHR has a policy called "general definitions" where these terms were pulled from. I mean, it's a pretty long list but weI pulled the terms that—like Chair Cabanas mentionedI felt that would be utilized in a appeal type process. In our general definitions, the definitions provided are actually the definitions are cited either via HRS, County Charter—so there is a source that is cited in our general definitions policy. The acronyms are the common acronyms. I guess it starts on page 5 -these are the real common acronyms that we use in the office daily, which I thought would also be thoughtful because as I present my report, I sometimes slip into acronym. And so, you have that here. Page 11