2024-09-19 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board September 19, 2024 CHR. CABANAS: Welcome, Alika. Alika and I worked together many times. Yeah. So, I'm glad to see that you are in the department. MS. KOST: Happy to be here. CHR. CABANAS: Board members, would you like to say a little bit about yourself so Alika can get acclimated? MS. MATHEWS: Sure, but I'd like to let Alika give us awhatever you'd like to say about your background. MS. KOST: Okay. So, I've been with the County of Hawaii for about 12almost 12 years, in the role of —in a few roles but the majority of the time I've been a Human Resource Program Specialist. I've worked in the Department of Public Works, and the Department of Environmental Management, and the Department of Parks and Recreation, as well as the Department of Human Resources as the HR Manager for the Personnel and Organizational Development Division. So, it's been great getting to know the different operations and different departments in the County, and I believe that that will help me in my new role here as well. MS. MATHEWS: Thank you —and that's exactly what I was looking for —was finding out your great expertise over all these years and the diversity. So, congratulations, Sommer MS. TOKIHIRO: Thank you. MS. MATHEWS: So, as you can probably tell, my name is Gay Mathews. And I'm a Honokaa girl. I was the —my last gainful employment was 28 years as CEO of the North Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union. I failed retirement and I'm now the Director of Philanthropy for a Global 501(c)(3) doing difficult things in challenging places. And I'm almost pau. I get kicked off at the end of December. So CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Ms. Mathews. And thank you, Alika. Ms. Bond? MS. BOND: Hi. I'm Suzi Bond. I'm —let's seeI'm the Queen of Volunteers. I currently run an all -volunteer theater company the Kilauea Drama and Entertainment Network. I also am the Chair of the Hawaii County Citizen Corps Council and have worked for almost 20 years in disaster recovery and preparedness. And I'm the new kid on the block. I just started in May, so I still have no clue what's going on most of the time. I'm getting better, but it's still —it's a steep learning curve when you don't come from this actual background. So, it's been a good one. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Suzi. Page 21