2023-11-21 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board November 21, 2023 CHR. CABANAS: Thank you. A second? MS. DE SOTO: Second. CHR. CABANAS: Any discussion? If not, I'll start a rollcall vote with—starting with Ms. Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. De Soto. MS. DE SOTO: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Kunz. MR. KUNZ: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Cabanas—aye. Four ayes. Motion carried to take Number 8 from the agenda, out of order. Let the record reflect that Mr. David Wiseman is absent. Meet And Greet Department Of Human Resources Employees Okay, so let's start. What I'd like to do is, first of all, because there are five Board members we wanted to just say a little bit about ourselves so that all of you know from where we come from in different career paths. So, I'm going to start with our Vice -Chair, Ms. Gay Mathews—and take about 3 -minutes or so, yeah. You can say whatever you want. MS. MATHEWS: I'm not that interesting for the 3 -minutes. I'm Gay Mathews and it's (inaudible) the way I look and soundI grew up in Honoka`a, graduated from HPA, have a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, a Master's in Organizational Changing Community Development. Forty-three years of financial—consumer financial services and the last 28 of which I was the President and CEO of the North Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union. And I do a lot of community development work over time—and I failed retirement and I am now running a global 501(c)(3) focusing in humanitarian efforts. That was, like, a minute it's not my fault. CHR. CABANAS: Wow, thank you. Moving along to Ms. Kate De Soto. MS. DE SOTO: Mine will be even more brief. Good morning, I'm Kate De Soto. I am from Hilo. I went to University of Hawai `i at Hilo and graduated with a psychology degree from Page 3