2024-03-12 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 12, 2024 CHR. CABANAS: Right. My only caution to everybody on the Board is, though, if you're doing it that you are aware—or being mindful that your comments should not be representing the Board, yeah—or any Board matters for that matter. Yeah, you're doing it as an individual just like I'll look it—and I might "like" something but I don't mention the Board at all or anything like that or put a value to someone's thing because we could be having those individuals come before the Board. So, we need to be mindful of all of that just a caution, yeah. MS. TOKIHIRO: And I don't actually have social media. So, yeah, I don't ever comment—but I do like to see how it appears and I will look at it from the perspective of just making sure that I'm aware and then that research as well. Because that I mean, I choose not to have social media but that really is the way that the world moves now and we want to keep up with that. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. But the only reason why I am on Facebook—so that you have that little background—was when it was time for us to post about County jobs way back when the IT director told me at that time—he said, "Oh, they wouldn't do it"so, I needed to learn how to do it. And I didn't know how to do it. So, I had to ask my family to show me how to do it, so I could come back and do it for the County as the HR Recruitment Manager back then. And that's how I got on Facebook in order to learn to do it for the County. So, I had, like, two different hats—it was personal—and then, of course, I do it for the County what I could with other assignments. So, that's how I got on Facebook, yeah. MS. TOKIHIRO: With Civil Defense—has asked for permission to be connected to the social media platforms for the different departments, so that through their Everbridge system when there's a civil defense notification not every notification but the most serious ones, they're able to put a message onto their Everbridge and it's going to be distributed by all the various department social media. So, we just recently completed that partnership with Civil Defense to get those messages out. So, I'm happy that we're able to utilize our social media to spread the word for things like that— get hatget that information immediately out to the public. CHR. CABANAS: And doesn't the Mayor have the Kahea app. or website? Because I, kind of, found it through just, kind of, scrolling one day—but it keeps you informed as a citizen about what's happening in the County yeah, it's called "Kahea"I think it's yeah, I have it on my phone called "Kahea." But, anyway, thank you for explaining about the report and answering our questions. MS. TOKIHIRO: Sure, my pleasure. Okay, well—with that, I will leave you to your business. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you so much, Sommer. Page 10