2026-04-23 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board April 23, 2026 The yellow sheet is the survey questions that we sent out, through email, and we decided in the past it would go to the department heads and the deputies, and the HR representatives and assistants of the departments—the yellow one. And what they do is they just number a scale of 1—where it strongly disagrees; where 5 means strongly agrees—and then they answer these questions. Questions 8 and 9 are open-ended questions. And, yes— MR. THOMAS: Where does it say who gets that one? Where it says line department/agency? CHR. CABANAS: Yes. MR. THOMAS: Okay. CHR. CABANAS: Yeah. MR. THOMAS: And then, the green one— CHR. CABANAS: The green one, I lobbied for. And the reason why—I don’t know if you knew that, but I lobbied for it because it pertained to the time that we were audited, prior to the audit. And how employees, including me, were—how should I word it—we were in a crazy period. And we really didn’t have a Bona Fide way to give input in order to rescue ourselves—so to speak. So, anyway, this is where employees now can provide input in an anonymous way. Providing input on how they feel about the Director’s job performance for the fiscal year. So, I’m glad the Board agreed—and as I explained it—you can always ask someone, “Oh, how do you feel? Oh, you look really great today!”—but you don’t know how the person feels inside— maybe they have high blood pressure or—I just used an analogy. Well, that’s how it was for our department, and not really having a place to go with our concerns. We just did what we were told to do, up to a point. And then—so this allows—this is, like, a safety net for the employees. MR. THOMAS: Where does it say who gets this? CHR. CABANAS: The employees of—to Human Resources. MR. THOMAS: The HR Department employees? CHR. CABANAS: Yes. MR. THOMAS: Okay. CHR. CABANAS: This is DHR— MR. THOMAS: I get it. CHR. CABANAS: —so they can provide input. Page 21