2025-10-30 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board October 30, 2025 CHR. CABANAS: Is that okay, Sommer, with you? MS. TOKIHIRO: That’s fine with me. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, great. Everyone, Board members? SPEAKER: Agreed. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. And then—okay, so there are nine pages, so we’re going to change it to “Page 1 of 9”—well, Page 1—“Page 2 of 9,” “Page 3 of 9,” “Page 4 of 9,” “Page 5 of 9,” “6 of 9,” “7 of 9,” “8 of 9,” “9 of 9.” And then, the initials will be instead of Sommer, it would be mine “GMC:”—and then Glynis “gy.” MS. BOND: Who’s number is that? Whose phone number is that? CHR. CABANAS: This is the main office. Okay, now, this is coming from me as the Chair— th so, from the Board, actually. Is it okay—they’re going to meet November 17—do I need to go to that meeting? MR. YOSHIMOTO: It’s up to you, Madam Chair. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Okay, we’ll see. The last thing is Number 7 on page 8, “On October 30, 2025, the Merit Appeals Board voted to recommend…”—and this is our recommendation— “…for the HR director.” Now, before we even do that, the Salary Commission also listed a progression of increases by year—and where is that? MS. BOND: It’s in the one just before—at the back. CHR. CABANAS: Behind the red. MS. BOND: Yeah, at the back, the very last three pages. CHR. CABANAS: Oh, okay. So, it shows—do you have this—it’s Exhibits A—oh, it’s all “Exhibit A”. So, it’s under the red tab. It—this is the memo that was sent to a number of the boards from the Salary Commission. So, in their Exhibit A, they’ve already, kind of, worked on like a three-and-a-half percent increase effective January 1, 2026. I’m not sure how they arrived at this other than three-and-a-half percent. Do you, Sommer? Page 28