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<br />Merit Appeals Board April 23, 2026 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MR .THOMAS: Aye. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Cabanas—aye. <br /> <br />Four ayes. Motion carried. <br /> <br />B. MAB Monthly Divisional Activity Report: April 2026 (Administrative Services Division, <br />Classification & Pay Division, Equal Opportunity/ADA Division, Health & Safety Division, <br />Labor Relations Division, Personnel & Organizational Development Division, Recruitment <br />& Examination Division, Workers’ Compensation Division) <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Moving along, we are now on the MAB Monthly Divisional Activity Report for <br />April 2026. Have you all read the April report. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Yes, again, on Equal Opportunity—what sort of ADA reasonable <br />accommodation cases do we get? <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: They’re not cases, per se—but they’re requests for reasonable <br />accommodation. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: That’s what I thought, yeah. <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. So, it’s a variety of things based on employee need. So, they submit <br />the request to their department, and then Alika—our ADA Coordinator—works with the <br />department to go through the process. <br /> <br />So, it could be a variety of things, particular—office environment or I couldn’t give you any <br />specifics—and I wouldn’t want to give specific examples, just for confidentiality purposes, but it’s <br />a variety of requests and it’s based on employee needs and is something that is verified by a <br />physician. <br /> <br />MR. THOMAS: Thank you. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: Under “Equal Opportunity/ADA”—you may have mentioned it, but I can’t <br />remember. RFP for the County of Hawaiʻi Self-Evaluation— <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: Yeah. <br /> <br />CHR. CABANAS: The self-evaluation is? <br /> <br />MS. TOKIHIRO: So, it’s going to be an evaluation of all of our programs and activities and to <br />make sure that they’re all accessible. So, I believe the facilities evaluation was completed a few <br />years ago, and I believe the federal government suggest that a self-evaluation be done every <br />ten years or so. <br /> <br />But it’s a very—we want to make sure that we are comprehensive and that we do it right, so we <br />actually put that to bid, so that we can identify an agency that can help us to evaluate <br />accessibility of all of our programs. <br /> <br />Page 15 <br /> <br /> <br />