2024-03-12 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 12, 2024 MR. KUNZ: I had twoa couple of quick suggestions. Thank you, Gay. I think my own, for lack of a better term naiveite of how this might be presented. In reading this, I felt like—I think I can go with this. But I understand this—about the old version but I understand, I think, what, basically, what we're trying to do and what you are trying to accomplish. I had a couple things, if we—and this is just my take on it. On the first page, that paragraph that starts with, "After the first meeting"—and after the word "location"—and it says, "Please read this letter carefully..." et cetera. Would it be okay that we include, after the word "location" the wording "as well as deadline dates..." "you need to meet for submitting your... "—instead of "Please read this letter carefully because it also will explain all the dead..." MS. MATHEWS: Yes. MR. KUNZ: So, we could remove, "Please read this letter carefully because it also will explain all the... "—and stop there and just put after "location"—"as well as deadline dates you need to meet for submitting your... "—and then explain the rest of that. CHR. CABANAS: Can you repeat that again? MR. KUNZ: Yeah. CHR. CABANAS: Please. MR. KUNZ: So, that paragraph that starts "After the first meeting CHR. CABANAS: Right. MR. KUNZ: where it ends at "date, time, and location CHR. CABANAS: Mm-hmm. MR. KUNZ: There could be a comma after "location" and add "as well as"—and then start from below. Strike "Please read this letter carefully because it also will explain all of the..."—strike that. And after "location"", as well as, deadline dates you need to meet for submitting your correspondence which includes... "(inaudible) like that. Does that read better? CHR. CABANAS: So, just continue on. MR. KUNZ: Yeah. MS. MATHEWS: Yes, and actually I would follow—go even further and strike the word "and" between "time and location" MR. KUNZ: Yeah, we can do that. Page 13