2023-11-21 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board November 21, 2023 MS. TOKIHIRO: Okay. Good morning, Chair Cabanas, and the Members of the Board. I am Sommer Tokihiro, the Director of Human Resources. It was really important, to me, that as part of our, kind of, re -set and new start with a new director that I want to provide opportunities for the entire staff to connect with the Board, for the Board members to be able to, sort of, see and associate the names and positions of all of the hard work that I'm reporting every month and every quarter. So, truly, it's a comprehensive team that puts together all of these outcomes that I'm pleased to report to all of you. So, just really want to take a couple of minutes and just give both sides the opportunity to have a little bit of interaction. So, as Chair Cabanas mentioned, when she started with the department, she was the ninth person tenth person in the department. And now we've grown to eight divisions and I think 28 current employees. So, what I'm going to do, you folks have the organizational chart (SEE ATT. A). I asked each division to, kind of, position themselves a little alphabetically. So, we're going to start with our Administrative Services Division. Okay. So, in this division, DeeAnn Sadayasu is the Administrative Services Officer; Tisha Narimatsu is the Administrative Services Program Specialist; Kelcie Chang is our Human Resources Technician, and Kaila Kaaihue is the Account Clerk. So, that's Admin. Services. Thank you. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you for coming. MS. TOKIHIRO: Okay, our next division is Classification and Pay. So, Jamie Martines is the Human Resources Manager for C&P; then we have Michele Lamkin who's a Human Resources Program Specialist, and Kim Kailipaka who is the Human Resources Technician. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you for coming. MS. TOKIHIRO: In our EEO/ADA Division, our Equal Opportunity Officer is Ryan Caday. Ryan is—has actually decided to return to the Prosecutor's Office. And so, Ryan is with us through December 15'h and then he'll be returning to the Prosecutor's Office, so we will—we are currently recruiting for that position. We wish Ryan well in returning to the Prosecutor's Office. We're very supportive, no hard feelings. CHR. CABANAS: We're going to miss you, Ryan. Good luck. Thanks for coming. MS. TOKIHIRO: Danny's just hoping that we find a qualified replacement very quickly. Otherwise, he gets to be (inaudible)—take on that responsibility as well. Yeah. Page 6