2025-02-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board February 25, 2025 MS. TOKIHIRO: So, HGEA would coverI mean, those professional level but also it could be clerical. But, again, it's based on the operational need of the department. So, if operationally the department is able to offer that and still keep offices open, 5-days a week, 8-hours a day through our normal business hours, then it's at their discretion which employees are able to participate. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, thank you. So, may I have a motion to approve the MAB Divisional Activity Report for January 2025? MS. BOND: So moved. MS. MATHEWS: Second. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you. Any discussion? If not, I'll start a rollcall vote with Ms. Bond. MS. BOND: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Cabanas —aye. Three ayes. Motion carried. MAB Monthly Divisional Activity Report: February 2025; Current Vacancies In The County of Hawaii CHR. CABANAS: Next on the agenda is the MAB Monthly Divisional Activity Report for February 2025, which we are still in the month of February. MS. TOKIHIRO: Wow, I feel like we finally caught up. CHR. CABANAS: Very interesting information being provided. So, thank you very much. MS. TOKIHIRO: You're welcome. So, for January, the other part, so —well, sorry, this is February. So, we did the grant training, "How to Search for Grants" —and then now it's —we're actually scheduling a training in March for how to —it's a "Grant Writing" course. So, that's exciting to continue on and provide those skills to departments to help them obtain more grants, hopefully. I was pleased that at the end of January, we closed January with only 50 continuous recruitments. And I that's still a lot of recruitments but we were making progress. So, that was definitely positive. Page 16