2023-04-27 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board April 27, 2023 as well as in Asia just in general—rule of law and the necessity of certain administration of justice. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Great, thank you for that offer. I will reach out to you. Thanks. MS. DE SOTO: I wanted to just add as food for thought, since I think I bring a particular perspective. Just like you were saying, the County is struggling at times with the shifts in employment interests and the changes in our community after COVID or as a result of COVID. The education system has struggled as well, right—we are having a hard time getting the students back in the door, engaged in in-person activities, internships to get them to show up, it's a challenge. But that is a way of, kind of, backsteppingis by increasing those that would most likely start to shift their own engagement with the community, with their education, with their career—and, hopefully, start to swing that pendulum back toward wanting to have more traditional type employment. So, I think it's a neat idea that you can start that engagement process earlier through those types of internship programs, `cause we do need to shift as a community back to a little bit more what was. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Well, thank you for that comment. And when I met with both chancellors, I did express how we not only want to be a part of career fairs and just having internship program. We want a regular relationship with the schools to include us coming in and even the other department heads just going in and talking to the students doing talks—even teaching a class, for example. So, we've made that offer to both campuses. And so, we're excited to see where that goes. And as I mentioned at the last meeting, I am on the College the UHH's College of Business and Economics Advisory Board. So, having that foot in, is going to be very helpful, I think, having that direct connection with UH. MS. DE SOTO: I should hope—market UH as well—under the County, right, that does give back to UH as well because there is that idea. We, even in the academic setting, so many students are lost from Hawaii, right—so many students move away. And they—educational settings are having to really think about how do they attract students and what is the appeal or getting them to stay here just even for a college degree. But, saying, here's the direct channel into our local employment offices, like that is a huge advantage. So, I hope you know that you guys are helping them as well. MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes, we've had that discussion andI'm not only attending actual advisory board meetings, but they host these the last event I went to, which was entirely made up of just students that they invite the board members to attend—was a presentation on Al. Page 13