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Merit Appeals Board <br />December 16, 2024 <br />endeavors. With sincerest gratitude, Gay Mathews/Vice-Chair, Suzi Bond/Member, and <br />Gabriella M. Cabanas/Chair"—and we are really going to miss you. <br />MR. WISEMAN: Thank you. And for those kind words and I'd like to say this —take this <br />opportunity to say goodbye to all of you. Although, I'm going to be in touch with J, I think, <br />(inaudible) ask him legal stuff. <br />And it's my opinion is the Merit Appeals Board —it's a great consequence to the County <br />employees. It allows them recourse, in most cases, righting the wrongs and so on. So, I wish <br />you all the best in your challenging endeavors ahead, including those 30-page stories by <br />appellants you really have to limit that. <br />And, in closing, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention our exceptional staff, Glynis —and all of <br />(inaudible) Jin particular Glynis, who makes great chocolate cake. <br />CHR. CABANAS: And coffee. <br />MR. WISEMAN: Thank you. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Mathews? <br />MS. MATHEWS: So, I want to thank you for actually agreeing to me badgering you into <br />staying on, because we would have lost you and lost a whole lot by you not being here, had you <br />not stayed. So, thank you. <br />MR. WISEMAN: One thing in parting as I was discussing with Gabriella and Glynis before the <br />rest of you came in was there was no need for this delay. In other words, if you recall when <br />Jim said at the end of decision, the last hearing —if you recall, he said he was going to do <br />Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. This requires a whole transcript and takes months. <br />And, as I told you, I think, in court I would always inform the attorneys ahead of the trial, at <br />scheduling conference"Okay, the trials coming up, the hearings coming up. I want both of <br />you to know I'm going to require Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law" that way they bring in <br />staff to take notes or they have some other process (inaudible). It's a laborious, very timely <br />thing. <br />So, that's why I came out with that short Order, which was —would be about two or three <br />paragraphs, I think. And that could have been issuedI mean, I could have wrote it right here. <br />And that's another option. He has no problem with it. In court, sometime on short Orders like <br />that, you can ask that —"Counsel, can you prepare the order" they're more than happy to. They <br />prepare it, they submit it —if it's not good, we send it back, but in those cases (inaudible). If you <br />come prepared and you want to pass it to the other —your opponent —and then, submit it. That's <br />how it goes. <br />Page 14 <br />