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Merit Appeals Board April 27, 2023 <br />So, what that did was it gave me the opportunity—and not necessarily AI—but it could be in <br />anything right. It could be accounting, it could be marketing but me sitting in the room and <br />having the opportunity to network with the students and have discussions with themI'd be like, <br />"Hey, we're right here on island. You don't have to go anywhere. You can apply. We have all <br />these jobs." <br />So, I already see a huge benefit with that relationship and, like I said, I'm excited to see where <br />this goes. Thank you. <br />CHR. CABANAS: I have one comment and I just recently realized—when we say, "Where are <br />the applicants? Where are they?" And COVID really had such a large impact. Sometimes I <br />think even I didn't realize it until just recently. Many people created their own business—self- <br />employment. A lot of them are liking working remotely from home that's fine. <br />I think there is a group that might be just lost. They they're afraid to get out because of <br />COVID. They're pretty much stuck at home not doing anything, which we would feel is <br />productive—'cause they're not working, they're not in school they're just hanging out at home. <br />And so, for that group, I think whatever community organizations can doHR, UH -Hilo, <br />HCC try to attract those individuals out. Yeah. So that they're more confident. They feel <br />better about coming out in-person or even taking an online course—and there are so many now <br />at UH, HCC. Get them in—ease them back into getting skills that society values that will make <br />them employable for not only County jobs but other jobs. <br />I think that group needs a little attenor not a little they need attention. They need to feel <br />comfortable easing back into society. Whatever you can do when you start networking with UH, <br />HCC, other organizations that might be a way for more applicants, also, for the County. <br />I'm just, kind of, thinking out loud based on what I experienced going to HCC on Saturday, <br />talking to people, talking to some that have been lost with COVID and all that—maybe that <br />might be part of the equation in getting more applicants. <br />And so, whatever you can do to market the County, try to maybe—one, you folks would figure it <br />out. But that might be a way to get people in if you can work on some marketing for that group. <br />Whatever you folks decide to do. <br />MS. MATHEWS: May I dovetail on that? I agree that thereI think couple of things, maybe, <br />happening here. Hopefully, one of the things that's going to be happening this is going to <br />sound pessimistic on one side of it—is that a bunch of those businesses are going to be failing <br />about now. They are going to be financial institutions are going to say game's over and taking <br />their car, et cetera, and that is going to motivate them to get back. <br />But I agree that there's a fear factor that plays into that. I think the one place people may be <br />going that have been locked in, is their churches. Is we're working that whole program I was <br />Page 14 <br />