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Merit Appeals Board <br />May 23, 2025 <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: It's actually okay. If you want to take the other business out of order, that's <br />fine. I can do my report at the end. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay, but we already have you and I don't see any objections. So, we'll go <br />through it pretty quickly. <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Okay. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay then you can go back to sleep. <br />So, have the Board members reviewed the "Director's Report" for the month of May 2025? <br />MR. THOMAS: Yes, I have. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. <br />MS. BOND: Yes. <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Yes, we all have read it. Are there any questions for Ms. Tokihiro? <br />MR. THOMAS: Is there anything she would like to call a special highlight to first? <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Sommer, is there anything that you'd like to present (inaudible). <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Sure. So, just some updates. At the —excuse meat the last meeting we <br />were talking about the EO/ADA complaints that were noted in the quarterly report. And those, <br />actually, it's not necessarily just complaints —it's a combination of complaints and inquiries <br />and most of those are inquiries related to reasonable accommodation for our employeesso, that <br />they are not something qualifies as a reasonable accommodationso, just wanted to clarify that. <br />And along those lines, we do quarterly workshops with all of the HR reps. in the departments. <br />We just had one on May 13''. And at that meeting Alika, the Manager for the ADA/EO <br />Division, provided a presentation about determining whether something is a reasonable <br />accommodation and then the process for that. <br />So, we do get a lot of inquiries from departments about what qualifies as a reasonable <br />accommodation. So her doing that presentation was very helpful and she provided a lot of <br />scenarios to really give the HR reps. some good samples to refer to. <br />I did want to note that we have tentative agreements in place related to collective bargaining for <br />both UPW and HGEA. We are going to arbitration for three units that's going to be <br />Bargaining Unit 12, our Police Officers; Bargaining Unit 11, Fire Fighters; and then our Water <br />Safety Officers in Bargaining Unit 15. <br />Page 4 <br />