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Merit Appeals Board January 30, 2025 <br />MR. OKINAKA: Correct. <br />MR. HONG: And you did the ranking? <br />MR. OKINAKA: Correct. <br />MR. HONG: Did you have to show it to anybody to get their approval, like, the Chief? <br />MR. OKINAKA: I usually present that ranking to the Chief for review. <br />MR. HONG: Does he sign off on it or initial it or anything? <br />MR. OKINAKA: No, just verify he saw <br />MR. HONG: Okay. <br />MR. OKINAKA: based on, yeah, what I provide. <br />MR. HONG: Okay. And did he —to your recollection —did he verify the ranking? <br />MR. OKINAKA: Yes. <br />MR. HONG: And in terms of the ranking, where —well, let me rephrase that. The grievant —let <br />me rephrase it —so you had testified earlier you had done a recalculation based on that 5% that <br />the Department of Human Resources said was the proper way to do it? <br />MR. OKINAKA: They didI just wanted to just a point of correction, `cause you mentioned <br />that we were directed to do that. We weren't directed to do that, but the —like I said, it was just <br />the communications that went back and forth with the Chiefs and DHR when they talked about <br />that. That's after the grievance. <br />They said that there's this —usually there's this 5% that they considerso, once I heard that, I <br />just tallied it up, just for my ownI wasn't directed to do so, I just did it just to see how the <br />rankings would have played out, if we considered that. <br />MR. HONG: And did, in your recalculation, Jonah was still on top? <br />MR. OKINAKA: He wasn't going to be affectedI can say that much. I'm not sure exactly <br />where he was, but he wasn't affected. <br />MR. HONG: So, he would still be one of the four guys? <br />MR. OKINAKA: Correct. <br />Page 18 <br />