2022-05-16 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board May 16, 2022 CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Mr. Leopoldino. Going back to Mr. Yoshimoto and your comments—also, what impact would there be, if any, if an appeal goes beyond our responsibility and heads to, let's say, the circuit court. So, your research would also be involved with that, right, because an appellant could take somethingI'm not saying that they are but that option is always there for the appellant to take a decision that we render to the circuit court. Correct? MR. YOSHIMOTO: Yes. So, you lost me as far as how it relates to the minutes? CHR. CABANAS: Right. What will the court accept, in other words. MR. YOSHIMOTO: Oh, okay. Yeah. So the Board's approval are the official minutes, right, so that'sso, it's critical, right, to make sure the record is CHR. CABANAS: Yes, that's my point. MR. YOSHIMOTO: Right. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. MR. YOSHIMOTO: So, the process that we have now, we know that it works. CHR. CABANAS: Yes. MR. YOSHIMOTO: I understand the concerns being raised. So, if there is a way to do it better, we will certainly consider it. Yeah. CHR. CABANAS: Right. Ms. Mathews suggestion is acknowledged because with all the technology that we have, hopefully, it would make it more efficient. MS. MATHEWS: And that's, basically, all I'm saying is that she's still going to be hands on but instead of a 1:3 ratio—it's a 1:1. She's reviewing those minutes in—she's reading them and she's listening to audio going, "Yes, this is it." So, it's not excluding her at all. It's just making her life much easier. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you. Anyone else no questions or comments. Okay. So, the discussionoh, Mr. Ventura, do you have anything before I forget? MR. VENTURA: I was just going to say we use that a lot here also. But our minutes are just summary minutes, they're not verbatim minutes—but they are yeah, they're very useful. Page 5