2025-09-26 Merit Appeal Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board September 26, 2025 MS. TOKIHIRO: Because the interview training is focused on members of the panel as opposed to who would be making that ultimate determination— CHR. CABANAS: Right. MS. TOKIHIRO: —which would be the department head. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. MS. TOKIHIRO: So, the interview training is really focused on appropriate questions to be asking—things of that nature. It doesn’t get into that detail as far as the scoring. So, that would be—that training and knowledge of relatively equal is something that we would be discussing with the HR staff. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Because you do have a lot of new HR staff. MS. TOKIHIRO: Correct. Yes, we do. CHR. CABANAS: So, when someone is hired, is that covered? MS. TOKIHIRO: So, that’s part of the—we do training at Classification and Pay, Recruitment and Examination, Labor Relations—so that would be part of the Recruitment and Examination. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Okay, thank you very much. And the other thing I wanted to ask—it goes back to Recruitment. So, at the end of August the department had 52 continuous recruitments. And in November of last year, you reported that the division was going to pursue this Hiring Campaign. What became of it? And a Task Force with some of the departments? And I don’t see it in the monthly reports. So, has that been shelved? MS. TOKIHIRO: So, the Task Force was actually the Mayor’s Task Force. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. MS. TOKIHIRO: And it initially started out with a larger group of people and then has now been, kind of, scaled down to me meeting regularly with the Mayor and the Managing Director to discuss recruitment issues. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. So, what about the Hiring Campaign? MS. TOKIHIRO: We’re always in a Hiring Campaign, but as opposed to—I mean, you were talking about the radio ads. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah, the radio advertisements—you folks have money in the Advertising Account, but has that been shelved or—‘cause it’s almost a year. Page 6