2026-04-23 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board April 23, 2026 CHR. CABANAS: Oh, that’s not next week, but the following. Is that a Monday? So, not next week, but the following Monday. So, are you going to do a—draft a letter for us to go out next week? MR. YOSHIMOTO: Yes. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you so much—for me—no, not for me to—oh, yeah, for me to sign. Yeah, okay, that’s fine. Oh, thank you so much. Okay. And he can bring it up, too, if he wants at the meeting, it’s up to him. Okay. Okay, so we got that set. The questions okay on the yellow sheet and the green sheet? You folks are okay, Niel—okay. And, I guess, that’s it. MS. BOND: So, I move that we approve— CHR. CABANAS: Wait—yeah, I was just going to do that—we’re not done yet. MS. BOND: Oh, I was going to move to approve the questions for the survey. CHR. CABANAS: No, not yet. So, the goals on the golden rod sheet, are listed here—Goal 1, 2, 3; and then we match up the questions internally are the alpha. lettering; and the numbers are the line department survey questions—that’s how we line it up. We also send a letter to Sommer requesting the department’s budget for the last fiscal year and the upcoming year—the current budget, yeah—last year and current budget report—a copy of your variance report for last fiscal year and your current budget year. So, we need this letter as well. Okay. So, any comments, concerns about the rating form? What about you, Sommer, did you find it helpful when you—when we gave you the comments and shared with you—was it helpful to you when you went back in your own respective follow-up? MS. TOKIHIRO: Yes, very much. It was very helpful. I appreciate, especially, the boxes that you folks provide where it’s not just the rating. I mean, there’s—there could be a lot behind an answer that has a score of “1” and the same would be true for a score of “5”—and so, I appreciate the text boxes where people can provide their individual comments and not just the numeric ranking. So, that’s helpful to me. All the feedback is helpful. CHR. CABANAS: Any comments/concerns from the staff when they got their survey? MS. TOKIHIRO: No one on the staff has discussed the survey with me. Yeah. So, I generally brought back last year’s survey results—indicated some areas of concern. And so, I shared in a general sense with my Management Team, some of those concerns because I want to move forward in finding ways to address those issues and correct things. So—but I haven’t—I didn’t receive any direct feedback about the survey itself. Page 30