2023-08-30 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board August 30, 2023 But, I think, the threshold question for this Board isdo you want to provide input on the salary? And then, if yes yes, you should have the information you need and able to—for you to make a recommendation. If, no, then I mean, it lies squarely with the salary commission. CHR. CABANAS: Right. MR. PATEL: And that's where it (inaudible). MR. KUNZ: MyI have some interest in hearing that the mayor also got this request, made a recommendation—knowing the type of work that has been done with his department heads. And us having a little bit more intimate relationship with the HR side, than the mayor probably—we would have an idea. But I would be interested to see what the mayor thinks his department heads increase is worth and valued. And that's why I asked if there was some, sort of, guideline. I know we can arbitrarily provide a number, which I agree with the Chair, makes it very—it's hard for me to validate an increase not knowing some other information that's not provided to us. And one of that pieces of information would be my curiosity being satisfied with what the mayor had suggested as an overall number for his department heads. I'd be interested to know what that is. MR. PATEL: So, I can say that the mayor's response to the salary commission was no recommendation. He left it squarely to the salary commission. Hence, department heads then being able to send in, separately, what they wanted. MS. DE SOTO: So, seeing that we're a fairly thorough Board and I don't think we like to make premature decisionsI did notice that the letter was requesting a response by August 2nd as they were supposed to meet on it on this topic on August 4h. Do you have any information about how our feedback would be received or utilized at this point? MR. PATEL: That was the response mainly for departments. For the appointing authorities that were boardsI think it's accounted for at the ending of that letter saying we would provide more time. Realistically speaking, the process that the salary commission goes through when coming up initially with a proposal, at best—an absolute, 100 percent efficiency—will be three to four months. So, there's time. CHR. CABANAS : I noticed in the 2019 letter to the to chair back then there's really no number that they came up with in terms of recommended salary for the director. The thing with the salary comparisons is that, from an organizational standpoint, it's not only what the directors are doing, but it's the scope of the work. So, even across the various counties in the State—the salaries are different, right, for the director of human resources, right. Page 12