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Merit Appeals Board <br />February 17, 2023 <br />are you having some discussion with the other directors on the other islands on how they're <br />streamlining their operations? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Not specific to recruitment. I think the hot topic right now is pay and the <br />retirement system bills that are at the Legislature. So, it's definitely something I can bring up <br />but, at this time, they're concerned with wages. And that's, kind of, the discussion going on <br />right now. But, definitely, we can—like we always do—we always connect with the other <br />jurisdictions to, kind of, try and be consistent statewide. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: You're welcome. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Anyone else with other questions? If not, thank you. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: I have one more thing. <br />CHR. CABANAS: You have— <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yeah. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Go ahead. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Like you mentioned, Chair Cabanas, we focus a lot on recruitment. But I <br />do want to highlight one of our workers' compensation—our Manager Sommer Tokihiro. She <br />had some great news with us. <br />We won a fraud case in workers' compensation, so the County prevailed and we will be <br />collecting money back from the employee involved in that. But I just wanted to share some of <br />the successes in our other divisions and that was a huge success for workers' comp—kind of, in <br />line with what Ms. De Soto brought up. <br />Our workers' compensation division, they're working really hard to keep our costs, keep our <br />claims down. So, they deserve to be in the spotlight sometimes. So, I just wanted to share that. <br />CHR. CABANAS: That's wonderful. That's a major accomplishment. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: It is. That's all I had. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Thank you. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Waylen. <br />Page 14 <br />