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<br />Merit Appeals Board March 20, 2026 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: No, in that particular instance, it isn’t. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Okay. I know we can’t anticipate what the hearing will be about. <br />Another question I had was acronyms escape me because I don’t know them. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Oh, sure. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: What is “HIOSH?”—(he pronounced it as “HEEOSH”.) This is— <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Oh, “HIOSH.” <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: “HIOSH.” <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: “HIOSH” is the Hawaiʻi equivalent of “OSHA”—so, it’s “Occupational <br />Safety and Health”—so that’s our Hawaiʻi State Office of— <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: “Hawaiʻi Occupational Safety and Health.” <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Okay. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: That’s the state office. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Okay. And then, I think that I’ve made a joke of this but what happens <br />to a Program Planner II, who is Aging? <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah, so in the Office of Aging—yeah, we have Program Planners. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: That’s all I have. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: I guess we’re all aging, right? <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Right. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Okay, anyone else? Suzi. <br /> <br />MS. BOND: Yeah, I actually had, sort of—along the same lines. Is there a plan to do <br />reviews of the—of positions across-the-board? It says—and I know this, sort of, has to <br />do with that hearing, but it triggered something—that the last time that certain positions <br />were—the descriptions were done, evaluate—I don’t know what the word is, I want— <br />was, like 2004—that’s, like, 22 years ago, and shouldn’t a lot of these positions have <br />been, like, looked at between now and then—you know what I mean? <br /> <br />Page 9 <br /> <br /> <br />