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<br />Merit Appeals Board September 26, 2025 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MS. GIBO: I don’t anticipate needing to but, of course, I’m always open to—if you have any <br />questions or you need to have—like you said, executive session to have more thorough <br />discussion, I am, of course, available for that. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Well, we do have one of the Appellant’s here, Ms. Jo-Ann Tallett. She was <br />a longtime employee of the Hawaiʻi Police Department and has since retired but she’s still <br />interested, of course, in her appeal. <br /> <br />So, Ms. Tallett, do you have any questions for us or for our attorney? <br /> <br />MS. TALLETT: No, just that the girls are short-handed today, so they couldn’t even come in on <br />the Zoom. So, I’m kind of representing them, along with myself. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: It is a long haul for these employees. They’ve been waiting way over one <br />year. And to note that the hearing is in January—that’s even longer, but I guess it’s because they <br />are booked for lack of a better word—the courts are booked in Honolulu to hear this until <br />January, I guess that’s what it is, right? <br /> <br />MS. GIBO: We leave it up to the Circuit Court to set their own calendar— <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Right. <br /> <br />MS. GIBO: —so we have no control over that. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Right. <br /> <br />MS. GIBO: But, yes, that is the date that was given to us by Judge Tonaki. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay. So—you’re confused, Ms. Bond? <br /> <br />MS. BOND: Yeah, as usual—I mean— <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay, so how can we make it clearer? <br /> <br />MS. BOND: Okay, so what is happening now is you are appealing the thing that said that we <br />could actually rule on this? <br /> <br />MS. GIBO: Right. So, initially, prior to me coming on, my understanding was that there was a <br />petition submitted to the Labor Relations Board asking them to resolve the conflict of <br />jurisdiction between the County and the individual parties. <br /> <br />Since then, the Labor Relations Board issued a ruling stating that you folks—that they— <br />essentially, that they’re not going to resolve it for you folks, and that you folks can resolve it <br />yourself. So, that particular decision—the first in this packet—was appealed to the Circuit <br />Page 31 <br /> <br /> <br />