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Merit Appeals Board October 30, 2025 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MS. BOND: “At the same time, economic conditions and priorities shift frequently”—if you <br />just take out the word “political” and leave it with “priorities”—‘cause things do shift— <br />everything shifts, right? The only thing guaranteed— <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: I don’t want it to sound like it’s them—do you know what I mean? Do <br />priorities change frequently? <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: I think in the workforce, in general—yes. I mean, I think that that’s— <br />priorities do shift based on peoples’ needs for— <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: ‘Cause if that’s the case, we could say “workforce priorities.” <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Does it need a qualifier in front of it? <br /> <br />MS. BOND: Does it need a qualifier? <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: I’ll leave that to the Board. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: It’s just that, if you get questioned, how would you answer that? Or if any of <br />us are questioned, how will we answer that—that’s where I’m coming from. We need to know <br />what that means. <br /> <br />MS. BOND: What—that “priorities shift.” I mean, it’s— <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Yeah, because— <br /> <br />MS. BOND: In my world, it depends on what fire is burning the brightest that day and it gets <br />taken—that gets dealt with. So, priorities do shift. Today the administrative staff is doing <br />testing for their new thing, yesterday they were probably checking the numbers for payroll or <br />something. I mean, it’s like, their priorities shift day-to-day depending on what’s going on. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: And then, in a general workforce, at one time, the stability of having—or at <br />certain times, like, when we faced difficult economic times we see more priorities or people that <br />want a stable job and are more actively seeking work with the County, whereas, recently, with <br />economic conditions changing—people have not been as interested in government employment <br />as they were at other times—as they, kind of, have ventured out and started their own small <br />businesses, and gotten into social media advertising, and have prioritized more of the flexibility <br />or work-from-home arrangements or things of that nature. <br /> <br />So, I think that we have seen more of the shift in the change in priorities in the general <br />workforce—and these things like work-life balance and things of that nature, so I’ll leave it to <br />the Board—that’s how I would explain it is that it’s changing priorities in the general workforce <br />and their interest in coming to work for the County. <br />Page 21 <br /> <br /> <br />