2024-06-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board June 25, 2024 MR. WISEMAN: I see. Would there be any points or credit or acknowledgement of the two years training? In other words, they should be jumping ahead of other people who didn't have that. MS. TOKIHIRO: No, the experience would be used to MR. WISEMAN: I'm talking about acceptance point based on that two year training. MR. KUNZ: Can I CHR. CABANAS: Go ahead, Charlie. MR. KUNZ: I might be the only one, maybeI'm not I shouldn't say it that way but I totally get it. Totally on board. Coming from a employment and job training background that I have, I get that whoever these individuals are will be having to search that they're going to take on this endeavor with knowing that their skillsets will improve at the end of two years. They will be made eligible for positions that they weren't eligible for before. To whatever level, they will still have the same opportunity—it's no different than when—Gabe, we used to do job training in the Department of Labor, they come away with something of value and they are now able to apply with everybody else of which they would not have been able two years prior, to apply for jobs. It's free. They're getting this free. The internal announcement for those positionsI would assume that each director, if they do this correctly, would have new value added to their operation and, potentially, a person that they may want to—and could promote internally or at least they know that they can apply for a job internally within their own department, and they were part of training this individual. So, I only see a win, win, win kind of thing. No one's losing here. If the individual completes this section for two years, they can move on to bigger and better things. Yes, they will have to compete with everybody else, but that's the integrity behind the system that they're not given a leg up. They were just given brand new skillsets to be eligible to apply for other things within or in other departments. I love the idea. I think it's progressive. You can tell, already by your Director's feedback, that if they want to participate, they love it, they see they get the buy -in. Yes, the person may leave to something else but every department and every department employee can do that, if they haven't done so already in the past how many years, move to a different department. They see something that's better they go for it. They're disgruntled in one area they'll leave, they'll go for it. Page 17