2023-09-29 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board September 29, 2023 MR. PATEL: Yes. Not so much for the Merit Appeals Board right now, especially not with any appeals coming up. Recent development— CHR. evelopment CHR. CABANAS: I guess, my HR background would—like, you're right. My HR background would cause me to ask. Is there something that we're doing that can help? Are we being cumbersome in any way? MR. PATEL: No, you're not. But, really, Glynis is the only person assigned. So, it all falls to her. I get very nervous when we have weather events and she drives in from far out. CHR. CABANAS: Right. MR. PATEL: With the regular meetings, without your secretary here, that kind of puts your meeting in jeopardy. The same is true, also, for Salary Commission. So—and I'll address it with my director's report. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you. Any MR. KUNZ: I just have one comment CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Kunz. MR. KUNZ: or—yeah, a comment. I guess—and I can't speak, Gabe, for you. But being coming from a management career I can maybe agree with you on how basic duties become challenges in operationally from a management standpoint. The challenge would be to look at the operation—if every piece of the operation is a challenge. So, to me, it does read the wrong word and the two strong word isit reading suspect. But if the appeals commissionI mean, if the salary commission is not reading it that way, then I get it. But I think if basic functions becomes challenges then—and it's down to some minutia about why they are challenged and they're not described—the untrained eye might look at this as, "Wow, everything that's on your description is a challenge"—and it's major challenge, then to me—and not you but the process—somebody's not doing the job right if it's a challenge because to me a major challenge would be talking about how short-staffed and how that equates to backlogging and all this kind of stuff and impacting the community—and stuff like that, right. So, that to me is a major challenge. So, I know this is nothing to be changed. I think I just wanted to get on record what my definition of a major challenge from a management standpoint is and maybe some of these could have been left out. But I know that beefing it up gives the impression of—that the work there's a lot of work to be done and it validates or justifies the reasons why you'd want the salary commission to give you a favorable response versus maybe someone like us who might balk a little bit and going, "No, wait a second, aren't those just your day-to-day duties kind of thing?" Page 14