2025-05-23 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board May 23, 2025 But we are happy to have tentative agreements with UPW and HGEA for the other units, and those need to be approved by county council —so that's in process right now. I wanted to highlight our Personnel and Organizational Development Division that's our training division. After a 15-year hiatus, we brought back the —what was before, the "Clerical Conference" but we're now calling it our "Office Support Staff Conference." So we scheduled two half -day sessions to allow maximum participation and still have coverage in our County offices. So, that was held on May 20'h and 21 "—and we had a total of 84 employees that attended that training. We also opened it up to staff at the University of Hawaii because we were able to utilize the Campus Center for that training. So, that was a great partnership as well —so some of the Hawaii Community College staff attended. I think that those were the main things. I know we've been talking a lot about the development of the new software with CherryRoad. They were on -site to do some development at the end of April. They are now on -site again doing intensive training because the Finance module of that system goes live on July 1. So, there's a lot of staff in HR because they're —our fiscal responsibilities that we're starting that intensive on -site training process. So, it's exciting to see but a little bit challenging —lots to learn. But, yeah, those are the major highlights that I wanted to give to you. Oh, also, noting in our Classification and Pay Division, I asked that Jamie provide more detail about the number of new classes of work that are being created but, also, amendments to the class specifications. So that's —letting you folks know that we're continuously reviewing class specs. and making updates. So, it could be updates to minimum qualifications or other related things —but, for the most part, when we're making amendments —it's to the minimum qualifications. And we also —in addition to creating new classes of work and reviewing revised PD's et cetera the Classification and Pay Division also reviews the intent to adopt new classes of work from other jurisdictions. So, it may not be a class of work that we have in our Compensation Plan, but when a new class is created anywhere within the State, all of the jurisdictions review and provide comments and feedback before that's adopted. So, it's a good opportunity for us, too, to see what other jurisdictions are adopting and it, kind of, creates a reference bank for our Classification and Pay Division when our departments come to us and say that there's something that they need, that they don't have —and we're able to, kind of, have that information available. So, Classification and Pay is working really hard keeping up with all of the changes. We have a lot of —we're asking our departments to make sure that all of the Position Descriptions are updated —and so, we've had a lot of those coming in as well. So, I think that that's, kind of, the things that I wanted to highlight at this meeting. I'm happy to take any questions. Page 5