2022-07-18 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board July 18, 2022 CHR. CABANAS: Gay, do you have any questions, comments? Okay. Yeah, sounds good, Waylen. And then, to engage the rest of the staff with your managers to move it forward? MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. The overall Administration is trying to break down silos and work smarter, not harder—and we're trying to figure different ways to do that. So, once we get our managers engaged, I would—my goal is to eventually have something more broader to include our staff because they're the team—so we'd like to, in the future, engage with our staff and have something similar so that they can have their voices heard as well. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. So MR. LEOPOLDINO: That's it? Any questions? CHR. CABANAS: That's it. Yeah. Virtual Resource Job Fairs MR. LEOPOLDINO: Okay. The next item on my director's report is our virtual resource job fairs. I wanted to—in addition to everything—all our efforts that we're putting into recruitment, I wanted to highlight this new opportunity and the similar opportunities we're getting when it comes to recruitment. So, the Office of Housing and Community Development has a setup where it's a virtual resource fair and they use it in different types of events, like, recently, they did a hurricane resource fair where they have different agencies log in and the public get sent out an invitation. They log in and it's a ZOOM type setup. And there can be breakout sessions where the public can choose what room virtual room they want to attend to get more specific information. So, the Office of Housing and Community Development approached us and asked us if we would like to do a job fair using a similar setup and they've done it for other agencies and organizations. So, we are actually in discussions with Housing to setup two days and we've already had interest from departments. And our setup is, basically, going to be to recruit. So, we're going to do different virtual rooms that a department a County department will be assigned to, to do a presentation about that department and also discuss the vacancies that are available in that department. This first one that we're going to be implanting has a targeted audience. The Office of Housing and Community Development had a Rental Assistance Program for those affected by COVID- 19. And so, this program is actually going to sunset soon. So, the Housing Department is trying to find ways to get these people employed. So, we have a targeted audience I believeI can't say what the number is but, primarily, West Hawaii—people in West Hawaii were receiving benefits from this program. So, the primary Page 14