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Merit Appeals Board <br />October 25, 2023 <br />goals has been, kind of, pending through COVID, then after that we had the mass pay <br />adjustments—and throughout that continually short-staffed. <br />But with the two recent positions being filled, and now with these two we're anticipating being <br />filled, hopefully, we should be able to get back on track with respect to that first goal. <br />CHR. CABANAS: And then for your 80 reallocation requests for recruitment purposes, are <br />those for fire or police or what are those for? <br />MR. PATEL: They're actually across-the-board— <br />CHR. CABANAS: Oh, okay. <br />MR. PATEL: just various. We've been doing that a lot with the difficulty in filling certain <br />positions, if they've been on continuous for long enough, we've reallocated a bunch of the <br />positions to the lower level classes—and then, simultaneously recruiting all at once. <br />CHR. CABANAS: How are the departments managing, though, with those vacancies? Are <br />people working overtime or are they—I guess, I was getting concerned that they might be <br />working out of class. Are those—are the employees staying within their classification? <br />MR. PATEL: As far as our department knows yes. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Are you auditing that? <br />MR. PATEL: There's—not since June as far as I know. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. `Cause I'm just wondering—let's say it'sI don't know—like a <br />Legal Clerk III—and you have a Legal Clerk II doing her work but who's doing the Legal Clerk <br />III work? <br />MR. PATEL: Yeah. So, I don't think that really has been an issue. We haven't heard about <br />anything along those lines. You'll know as part of the Workers' Comp. report as well. The <br />claims have been coming down. So, typically, I think what we find is when there're issues like <br />that or any other labor -related issues or any issues tied to just the work environment, in <br />general—the workers' comp. claims go up. <br />So, you could see from the reports that they've been going down. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Oh, okay. <br />MR. PATEL: Also, it's been relatively quiet lately. So, I'm either very excited that everything's <br />running smoothly or very scared that I'm just not being made aware. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you. <br />Page 9 <br />