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Merit Appeals Board <br />April 27, 2023 <br />It's a small division but they're tasked with doing a lot of things to include training to prevent <br />damage to equipment and to increase health and safety awareness within the departments. <br />MR. WISEMAN: I noticed the decrease in 2023. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. There was a high priority put on <br />MR. WISEMAN: (Inaudible.) <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Yes. <br />MR. WISEMAN: Thank you. My compliments on the report. (Inaudible.) <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: I will share that with my staff as well. <br />MS. DE SOTO: I have a question. <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: Sure. <br />MS. DE SOTO: So impressed for (inaudible) the comment by all of the activities. I mean, you <br />all are extremely busy and that is reflected within this. <br />And I was wondering, based on all of the—seems like an uptick in recruitment efforts and <br />creative marketing efforts in the re -branding of the County employment. Have you been able to <br />analyze the data to see if that's directly correlating to increase in applicants or more eligible <br />applicants? <br />MR. LEOPOLDINO: We recently added aI'm sorry, we do have an option for the applicant to <br />indicate where they heard about the job. I don't have that information with me but I'd like to say <br />that, at this point, as a result of our extra efforts, we have seen an uptick. We have closed a <br />tremendous amount of continuous recruitments. I would want to say 11 in the last two mont <br />well, since February. We've closed 11. It's still high because we do add. <br />But the staff have been working really hard not only doing their jobs in the office in screening <br />and referring lists but they're also participating in these activities that often occur on the <br />weekends. And so, again I really have to give a shout out to the staff because they've been <br />working extra hard on the limited resources we have. <br />So, to answer your question, yes, we have seen a direct uptick in just being out there in the <br />community. We get a lot of comments, like, "Wow, we didn't know you guys had this position" <br />and that position and we didn't know this department belonged to the County. And so, we're <br />getting a lot of those. <br />So, we're really seeing a direct benefit for us being out in the community. But I do want to share <br />a side comment about recruitment. So, I was on a flight back to Hilo yesterday. And this is just, <br />Page 9 <br />