2025-02-25 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board February 25, 2025 Call to Order (Item 1) CHR. CABANAS: Good morning, everyone. The regular meeting of the Merit Appeals Board is called to order on this day, February 25 h, 2025, at 9 a.m. We have quorum with three Board members present. I'm Gabriella Cabanas, Chair of the Merit Appeals Board —along with me is our Vice -Chair, Suzi Bond. MS. BOND: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning. And also, Gay Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning, Gay. We also have our Assistant Corporation Counsel, Mr. J Yoshimoto. MR. YOSHIMOTO: Good morning, everyone. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning. And Glynis Yamada, our Secretary -Reporter. MS. YAMADA: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning. And sitting in the gallery are Mr. Justin Lee, from the Office of the Corporation Counsel; and Ms. Sommer Tokihiro, Director of the Department of Human Resources. Addendum to Agenda (Item 2) CHR. CABANAS: We do have an addendum to the agenda, I've been informed. It is Communication number 25-01.01, submitted by —while we are obtaining the communication numbers from our Secretary -Reporter, I'd like to add present to our meeting today is Mr. Jim Halvorson, our Deputy Attorney General, appearing via Zoom from Oahu. Good morning, Jim. MR. HALVORSON: Good morning, everyone. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning. Okay, so going back to the addendum to the agenda, we have two communications submitted by Ted Hong, Esquire. They are Communication number 25-01.01 and 25-02.02—okay, correction. Glynis has corrected the communication number the second one is 25-02.01, from Ted Hong, Esquire. Mr. Hong has a matter at the Third Circuit Court in Hilo, on February 25 h, 2025, at 9 a.m., which is right now. And so, he's asking that these communications be pushed back to the end of the Board's agenda for Mr. Kaye and Mr. Turner. Page 2