2025-03-13 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board March 13, 2025 that and they made some revisions —his social media person, Tracey Niimi, made some revisions. The mayor wanted to think about it. And then, he wanted to put it on hold. And then, subsequently, asked if there were a couple of key positions that we wanted to advertise and they wanted to create a script around that. My concern with that is that it was only identifying specific positions because we weren't going to record a new radio ad each week —and our job listings change each week. And so, I wasn't I was having difficulty identifying specific positions that we would want to highlight in an advertising campaign that would go for, like, two to three weeks. So, we're revisiting that. I, definitely, am eager to get that going. So, we'll be working with the mayor's office to see if we can address that and come to some agreement as far as what the advertising would include. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, it's going to be across all these radio stations, right, that you have listed? MS. TOKIHIRO: Correct. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah, we're fortunate to have advertising money in our budget to try these different avenues, right —people don't read the newspapers as much anymore CHR. CABANAS: No, they don't. MS. TOKIHIRO: not everybody is online. So, the radio was an area that we hadn't utilized in the past, so I am eager to move forward with that. CHR. CABANAS: The other thing I had a question on was you have updated the Recruitment Incentive Procedures. What were the revisions made? MS. TOKIHIRO: So, the revisions that were made to that were to limit the way that the payment is issued. The prior procedure allowed, basically, for the individual to say how they wanted the payment to be made to them. One of the options was, like, on their first day of employment. It could be paid quarterly, it could be paid semi-monthly, it could be there were a variety of options. And I was —we had some instances where individuals were paid the entire incentive on the first day and it didn't really address, I believe, the intent of what the recruitment incentive procedure was —is for that retention aspect as well. And so, we changed it so that the payments are issued in equal semi-monthly installments. So. the payment options there's two options. They either receive the payment in equal semi- monthly installments for the period of one -year —or they're allowed to receive the incentive in Page 21