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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-04-26 Merit Appeals Board MinutesMerit Appeals Board Hilo Council Chambers Hawaii County Building 25 Aupuni Street, First Floor, Room 1401 Hilo, Hawaii April 26, 2021 (Monday) Call to Order (Item 1) The regular meeting of the Merit Appeals Board, County of Hawaii, was called to order at 10:03 a.m. by Chair Gabriella M. Cabanas, at the Hilo Council Chambers, Hawaii County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, First Floor, Room 1401, Hilo, Hawaii, on Monday, April 26, 2021. Roll Call — Present Ms. Gabriella M. Cabanas, Chair Mr. Mel Ventura, Vice -Chair (via Zoom) Mr. Charles Kunz, Member Ms. Gay Mathews, Member Absent and Excused Ms. Bella Hughes, Member Also Present Mr. J Yoshimoto, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Office of the Corporation Counsel Ms. Glynis Yamada, Secretary -Reporter, Human Resources Department Ms. Jeanette Aiello, Council Administrative Services Supervisor, Office of the County Clerk Mr. Relley Araceley, Legislative Information and Reference Technician, Office of the County Clerk Note: As part of the response to the threat of COVID-19, Governor David Ige issued a Seventeenth Proclamation Related to the COVID-19 Emergency dated December 16, 2020, suspending Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 92, Public Agency Meetings and Records, to the extent necessary to enable boards as defined in Section 92-2, to conduct meetings without any board members or members of the public physically present in the same location. This meeting will be held through a combination of some board members being physically present at the meeting location and some members participating by interactive video conference through ZOOM. Only persons that are present for the particular item on the agenda will be allowed in the meeting room. Each person will be required to wear a face mask and maintain six feet physical distance from any other person as required by law. Merit Appeals Board Call to Order (Item 1) April 26, 2021 CHR. CABANAS: Good morning, everyone. This is Gabriella Cabanas, Chair, of the Merit Appeals Board. The regular meeting of the County of Hawaii Merit Appeals Board is called to order at 11:38 a.m. on April 26, 2021. We have a quorum of four members—we have Mr. Mel Ventura sitting in via Zoom. Good morning, Mel. MR. VENTURA: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: And we also have fellow Board members, Ms. Gay Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning, Ms. Mathews. And we also have Mr. Charlie Kunz. MR. KUNZ: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning, Mr. Kunz. Also, three of us are in the councilroom at the Hawaii County Building. We are also—we also have Director William Brilhante with us. Good morning, Bill. MR. BRILHANTE: Good morning, Gabe. CHR. CABANAS: And we also have our Deputy Corporation Counsel, J Yoshimoto, with us. MR. YOSHIMOTO: Good morning, everyone. CHR. CABANAS: Good morning. And we have our Secretary -Reporter, Glynis Yamada, with us. Good morning, Glynis. MS. YAMADA: Good morning. CHR. CABANAS: And also from the Clerk's Office manning the equipment is Mr. Relley Araceley, who is the Legislative Information and Reference Technician; and Ms. Jeanette Aiello, the Council Administrative Services Supervisor. We are all in the councilroom at the Hawaii County Building. We have a quorum of four members, so we can proceed with our meeting. Just a kindly reminder, when we are speaking during the meeting so please turn on your mic. so that the meeting minutes can be recorded. Also, when we do vote, I will be using a roll call vote. So, I will ask each Board member for their vote on different matters via the roll call vote method. And the reason being is that it's Page 2 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 transparent. It will reflect how each Board member votes, and it makes it easier and, I guess, efficient for our secretary -recorder when she prepares our meeting minutes for us—in the regular meeting and in the executive session when we have executive sessions. So, I just wanted to go on the record to explain why I will do that. Addendum to Agenda (Item 2) CHR. CABANAS: Looking at the agenda, there is no addendum to the agenda. Statements from the Public (Item 3) CHR. CABANAS: We don't have any members of the public in the councilroom, so there are no "Statements from the Public." Approval of Minutes (Item 4) CHR. CABANAS: There are no minute meetings for us to review and approve at this time. Communications (Item 5) CHR. CABANAS: And no "Communications" either. New Business (Item 6) CHR. CABANAS: No "New Business" is listed. Director's Report (Item 8) MAB Quarterly Reports: January – March 2021; Negotiations Update; Departmental Updates CHR. CABANAS: Looking at the agenda, there is a request from our Director Brilhante to take his "Director's Report" out of order because he needs to leave for another meeting this morning. So I'd just like to ask the Board members are there any objections to taking his report out of order? Mr. Ventura? MR. VENTURA: No objection. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Ms. Mathews? MS. MATHEWS: No objections. CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Kunz? MR. KUNZ: No objections. Page 3 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 CHR. CABANAS: And Ms. Cabanas has no objections. Okay. So, we will proceed. And so, please proceed Director Brilhante. Good morning. MR. BRILHANTE: Good morning, Chair Cabanas, and Board members. Would it be okay if I removed my mask? CHR. CABANAS: It's fine. Yeah. MR. BRILHANTE: Again, seems like it should be afternoon but it's still morning. Just a brief report. Each of you in your today's packet, the last tab, should have the "Quarterly Reports" from my divisions. We have all the divisions there—Administrative Services, we have Classification and Pay, we have EOO the ADA Coordinator, we have the Safety Division, followed by Classification and Pay, Recruitment and Examination, and the last is Workers' Compensation. So, generally, when we submit those on a quarterly basis. And for—and I ask if there's any questions or any clarifications that any of the Board members have. And so that—I'll be doing that at this time. Any questions or clarifications from either of those reports at this time? No? CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Ventura, do you have any questions for the director? MR. VENTURA: Not at this time. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, thank you. Ms. Mathews, any questions? MS. MATHEWS: No. Thank you. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Mr. Kunz? MR. KUNZ: Not at this time. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Okay, this is Ms. Cabanas speaking. I just have one question to ask. MR. BRILHANTE: Sure. CHR. CABANAS: And it's be—it's going back to the department doing audits of the interview packets from the departments that was implemented in 2018. Is that still ongoing? MR. BRILHANTE: Yeah. As far as I know, our Recruitment and Examination Division is still doing that. They'll ask for various packets on a random basis. Again, I'll follow-up with the manager and I can give a more specific report. I can have that information included in the next quarterly report. Page 4 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 CHR. CABANAS: Okay. That'd be fine. Thank you. MR. BRILHANTE: Okay, great. Okay. Well, again, thank you very much. Moving forward just a brief report for our department. Last week, it was a Countywide budget review hearings for this upcoming fiscal year. And we submitted a general status quo budget. Being a small department, we don't have much capital we're not going to buy six vehicles instead of ten and the like. So, it's really hard for us to have any significant type reductions. We're very mindful of the fact that we're in a really tight economic environment right now with the pandemic and the like. So, we've been really fiscally conservative and mindful of the situation. I think the council appreciated that. They didn't have much questions for our department. However, there was some discussion regarding Workers' Comp. and that was just something I wanted to briefly touch upon today. From the onset of me taking this position, I always had an uneasy feeling not "uneasy" but uncomfortable feeling with Work Comp. I was concerned because, you may or may not know, the County is self-insured. So, that means every dollar that goes out is paid directly out of our pocket. We don't have an insurance carrier. And the reason for that is, it's because just not economically feasible to have a carrier. The monthly insurance premiums would be astronomical. So, it's just you do a cost benefit analysis and it is what it is. The County's self-insured in other areas as well—our vehicles and the like. So, with that, I was always concerned because Work Comp.—for a county, our size—our claims have been running at about $2 million annually. Oftentimes we would have to go in and ask for more monies as we would go forward. The unfortunate part with Work Comp. is the fact that you can't really plan for what may happen. It's inevitable. You can have the best training in the world. You can take as many precautions as reasonably foreseeable—and yet somebody can still get hurt. And so, it's not like you can say I have a $2 million budget and that's enough to cover the budget. It's all dependent on the workforce—how safe and if there's going to be any accidents. Unfortunately, we recently had a significant accident with one of our employees. There's going to be significant financial outlay to cover the injuries. The employee was in the ICU at Queens Hospital for a long period of time. And just recently had to be transferred to a physical rehabilitation center—and that's going to run us about $3,000.00 a month. So, if you extrapolate that out over a period of one-year, you're going to have significant expenses associated with just that one injury. And so, one of the things I always believed as the director is that, going back to my days as a fireman was the fact that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As I look back and as I assess and evaluate our Work Comp. Division, I think one of the areas that we really—we Page 5 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 haven't really focused our energies on our training division. When I initially took the directors' position, we brought in a new Work Comp. manager—Sommer Tokihiro, she is doing an outstanding job. The office is night and day -180 -degree change in the approach to their work. But now, we have to focus our attention to the earlier stage and that's our Health and Safety Division. So, one of the things I touched upon during the council hearing was our future attention to increasing the footprint of our Safety Division. I just submitted a supplemental budget request to create two new positions in our safety division. We currently have two positions and I'm hoping with the addition of the two training positions that we'll be able to accomplish two things. One is to reinstitute a stronger annual facility inspection program. We go in and we do safety inspections of our facilities. Because we've been so shorthanded, we haven't really done that for a while, at least a decade. The second area that I would like to address is the fact that we need to offer more training to our employees. And by "more training" I think internal training. The days of sending your staff to Oahu for safety training is over. It's just not feasible, from an economic standpoint. When one guy's out—who's doing the job back home. Accordingly, the second position I'm looking for is a trainer position. We would incorporate driver training and safety training together. We wrote out those requests, submitted it to council. When I spoke to the mayor, he was fin favor of it. Hopefully, we'll get the same response from council. So, going forward, that's what on the table for our Health and Safety—and going forward. We've been working really well with this current mayor and his staff. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the mayor's leadership training. It was a two-day training at the Civic the tennisI'm sorry, the EKS tennis center. And it was really worthwhile. The mayor brought in a professional trainer from—originally from the mainland but he's recently relocated to Kona. And it's an outstanding job he did. I think it gave me, and I think it gave all the managers, his department heads, and deputies, the opportunity to get to know everybody and to put a face to names and to just have a better understanding and better feeling as to what the Administration's goals and priorities are moving forward. And to be a part of that, I felt it was really beneficial for me. Under current negotiations, you may have heard that all of the bargaining units that we have employees who are members of—contract expires at the end of June this year. So, we're in negotiations currently with all of the bargaining unitsHGEA, UPW, SHOPO, and Fire. Our current position is to maintain status quo, no raises. So, last week we got word that UPW, Unit 1, ratified our proposal, with zero percent raises for the first year and a re -opener for year two. And what that means is we will keep it status quo with the zero raise, but next year, we'll Page 6 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 take a look to see what the economy is, looks like, and the only issue that re -open would be for salaries. So, UPW ratified that. Two of the HGEA units ratified that proposal as well. One unit rejected our proposal, so there will be further negotiations with them. And then, we're currently negotiating with SHOPO and Fire those same proposals are on the table for each of those units. And then, the final item is—we're just finishing up our open enrollment with EUTFmedical premiums and benefits. And that will end at the end of April. And, right now, it's kind of interesting. The prevalent plan for most of our employees is the 75/25 plan, which is a new plan that the State started offering about two or three years ago. The premiums are really incredibly low. For example, the HMSA 90/10 for a family plan is roughly about approximately 1,500.00 a month, whereas the 75/25 plan is about $280.00 a month for the same plan. And so, with that—the employees seem to have gravitated to that plan. It's, currently, the most popular plan. It probably has to do with the price, the out-of-pocket monthly expenditures. So, we'll see how that goes. The reason that's important is because the most popular plan selected by our employees set the basis for the Employer package. And for the longest time the HMSA 80/20 plan was the most popular plan. So, that was the plan we based our negotiations—on its amount of premiums the Employer would pay going forward. And that was where that percentage came from. And so, it seems like probably next year or the year after we'll be gravitating to the 75/25 percent plan premiums. So, we'll see how that goes, but I don't foresee any real significant changes with that, right now. We still are doing a lot of recruitments. There's a lot of requests. With the budget submittals and the discussions we've been seeing and hearing through the various departments and the council—we're anticipating come July 1st there'll be a number of new positions that will be coming forward, which is understandable. We're just prepping for that. We thought we'd, kind of, see a lull in the actual recruitment from now until then, but contrary to what I thought, the numbers are still pretty much the same. What I think it is and what's playing a major role is that the baby boomers are coming of age. So, it started about five/six years ago, we've seen increased retirements and that hasn't slowed. I think we're going to continue to see that going forward where our employees are able to qualify for retirement benefits and they're taking advantage of it. I'm not sure if the pandemic, the way that people started thinking that life is—maybe it changed some peoples' priorities. We're continuing to see that. We're still getting a lot of retirements going forward and we're having to fill those positions. And, of course, as someone retires, somebody gets promoted then we're backfilling on the promotion. So, it's a never-ending cycle. So, contrary to what I thought, we're still pretty busy with the recruitment aspect of things. And we just celebrated our office Administrative Professionals Day last week. I have a tremendous staff. There's no way we could be nearly as successful as we are as a department or Page 7 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 myself personally without our administrative staff/assistants working hard and tirelessly. Glynis is a prime example of that. So, again, I would like to thank her for all her work and everything that she does to make me look good. So, if you fire me, it's Glynis' fault. But if you praise me then, of course, it's Glynis' fault as well. But, anyway, that's all I have for my report. Again, the training I'm going to this afternoon is offered by the Department of Research and Development and it's a suicide awareness training. And I'm taking it and I requested that our ADA/EOO coordinator attend. We were offered two positions. And it's not because of any personal desire or need, but I think to have that type of understanding and especially, again, going back to this type of environment—so, I think it'll be very beneficial for our HR staff to engage in. I would like to get some information, open the door so that maybe this is something that we can continue and maintain on a regular basis. So, that's where I'll be at 12:30. Happy to answer any questions anybody may have. MS. MATHEWS: Gay Mathews. Your annual inspection that you're resuming, are those surprise inspections or are you warning them before you get there? MR. BRILHANTE: The current process now is because of our staffing issues, the inspections we've been conducting currently on a "as requested" basis. If there's an issue with a department and concerns are raised by the employee regarding safety, then our staff will go and conduct an investigation or if OSHA is going to do an investigation then our inspectors go and they tag along with OSHA. I want to change that. My plan, if our increased footprint request is approved, I would like to have a list of regularly scheduled facility inspections and have a set number where there'd be five or ten facilities a month and we're generating regular reports for the facilities. I like to see more of a, I guess, concrete type schedule as it relates to the inspections. MR. KUNZ: This is Mr. Kunz. Mr. Brilhante, what—is there a contingent plan should—God forbid—there's more accidents and the $2 million threshold is surpassed or breached? MR. BRILHANTE: Yeah, that's a good question. I think with some of the departments, like, I know for Mass Transit, for example, we have sup—we do have some supplementary insurance for catastrophic events. So, I think that goes to other departments as well. There's some coverage to that effect. But, for Work Comp., unfortunately, it is—comes out of our General Fund and it's directly self- insured. So, when we had this the rash of officer -involved shootings, that was something where—why we had to go in and request more money for that—those type of situations. So, I would like to have a nest egg for worst case scenarios but, unfortunately, it's just not there. MR. KUNZ: Thank you. Page 8 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 CHR. CABANAS: Any other questions for the director? Okay. If not, Mr.Director Brilhante, thank you so much. MR. BRILHANTE: Thank you very much. May I say one thing CHR. CABANAS: Sure. MR. BRILHANTE: before I leave? CHR. CABANAS: Yeah, please do. MR. BRILHANTE: It's in regards a topic that you guys will be discussing later and I just wanted to give my two cents. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. MR. BRILHANTE: Provide some information. When it comes to the annual review of my position Fm—I totally accept that. It's totally understandable. I understandI fully support why it's being done. The only information I'll put up there is when it comes to HR, one of the things we do is we're one of the few departments in the County who's completely driven by the HRS. And there's rules, there's requirements, and there's procedures codified in the HRS as it comes to—as it relates to hiring, and classification and pay, and benefits—and things to that effect. And, oftentimes, I don't like to consider myself the police but I have to act in that capacity. And so, some there's departments, 99 percent of the time departments are very receptive to the information I provide to them. But there's always that .001 percent that, for whatever reason, they just don't get it. And I'mI run across that situation and so, in the past, when I look at the responses to some of the questions, although names are not associated to department heads or departments that are not associated with the responsesI can figure out why, where, who, how—and I see that the departments who push back the most, oftentimes, that negative relationship is reflected in my rating. So, I'm not sure that the ratings and the responses from the department though the SurveyMonkey is the most adequate or fairest way to get information as to my job performance. But I understand it may be the only way. So, with that, I just wanted to put that on the table for food for thought, going forward. And that's all I have. Thank you. MS. MATHEWS: Gay Mathews. Thank you for that because I've actually had that same question is—from your perspective, is our evaluation process effective? What are we missing? What are—and you've looked at it before and you're in ajar. How would you do it differently? Page 9 Merit Appeals Board MR. BRILHANTE: I think April 26, 2021 MR. YOSHIMOTO: Yeah, we shouldn't talk about it now. That's not a topic for discussion right now, but for later on, but— MS. utMS. MATHEWS: (Inaudible. Microphone not on.) MR. YOSHIMOTO: We're diswhat's on the agenda, we can ask it as a separate agenda item when it's agendized that way, rightotherwise, we would be talking about something that's not on the agenda right now. So MS. MATHEWS: Okay. I totally understand that, but I thought she was dismissing him. So CHR. CABANAS: No MR. YOSHIMOTO: Yeah—no— CHR. CABANAS: No, I was not— MR. otMR. YOSHIMOTO: He's just added that— CHR. hatCHR. CABANAS: I wasn't going to MR. YOSHIMOTO: Sorry. CHR. CABANAS: This is Ms. Cabanas. No, no—what I was going to say, if anyone doesn't have anything else to say, was to thank the director for his input. But I'd like to reassure the director, on behalf of the Board, that whatever process the Board decides to evaluate you, Director Brilhante, that it will be fair and thorough. And I, kind of, want to just leave it at that for now. MR. BRILHANTE: I appreciate hearing that and my opinion is that that's how it's always been and I wouldn't expect I know each and every one of you—I wouldn't expect anything less from you. So, thank you very much for that. Thank you. Have a good afternoon. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Director. MR. BRILHANTE: It's afternoon now. MR. YOSHIMOTO: So, Madam Chair, suggest that we have a motion to file the director's quarterly report for January to March 2021. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. May I have a motion from the Board to accept the director's report? Page 10 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 MS. MATHEWS: So moved. Mathews. MR. KUNZ: Second. CHR. CABANAS: Moved by Ms. Mathews and seconded by Mr. Kunz to accept the director's report. Any discussion? No? If not may I have the vote taken. Mr. Ventura. MR. VENTURA: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Kunz. MR. KUNZ: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Cabanas—aye. Motion has been approved to file the director's report. Unfinished Business (Item 7) FY 2020-2021 Annual Performance Evaluation Of The Director Of Human Resources (HR) Process. May Include Revisions To: SurveyMonkey Questions For FY 2020-2021; Merit Appeals Board's Evaluation Tool For The Director Of HR For FY 2020-2021; Define Target Audience/Survey Participants (Executive Session: The Merit Appeals Board Anticipates Convening One Or More Executive Meetings Regarding The Above Matter, Pursuant To HRS Sections 92-4, 92-5(a)(2) And 92-5(a)(4), For The Purpose Evaluating An Officer Or Employee Of The County Of Hawaii, Where The Consideration Of Matters Affecting Privacy Will Be Involved And Consulting With The Board's Attorney On Questions And Issues Pertaining To The Board's Powers, Duties, Privileges, Immunities, And Liabilities. A 2/3 Vote Pursuant To HRS Section 92-4 Is Necessary To Hold An Executive Meeting CHR. CABANAS: Moving on to our agenda. I believe we now have—let's see, "Unfinished Business" which is the annual performance evaluation discussion of the director of human resources process. I'm going to ask for a motion to go into executive session but before I do, I need to read this part out to the Board. That the Merit Appeals Board anticipates convening one or more executive meetings regarding the above matter, pursuant to HRS sections 92-4, 92-5(a)(2) and 92-5(a)(4), for the purpose of evaluating an officer or employee of the County of Hawaii, where the consideration of matters Page 11 Merit Appeals Board April 26, 2021 affecting privacy will be involved and consulting with the Board's attorney on questions and issues pertaining to the Board's powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and liabilities. A 2/3 vote pursuant to HRS section 92-4 is necessary to hold an executive meeting. So, at this time may I receive a motion to, I guess, recess, right? MR. YOSHIMOTO: Motion to go into executive session. CHR. CABANAS: I could just go into executive session? MR. YOSHIMOTO: No, you need a motion CHR. CABANAS: Right. MR. YOSHIMOTO: pursuant to CHR. CABANAS: Right. Okay. MR. YOSHIMOTO: for agenda item Number 7. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, I got it. Okay. So, may I have a motion to go into executive session pursuant to what I just read? And so, I'll entertain a motion. MR. KUNZ: So moved. MS. MATHEWS: Second. CHR. CABANAS: Okay, motioned by Mr. Kunz and seconded by Ms. Mathews for the Merit Appeals Board to go into executive session to discuss the fiscal year 2020 to 2021 annual performance evaluation of the director of human resources process, which may include revisions to the SurveyMonkey questions for this fiscal year; the Merit Appeals Board evaluation tool for the director of HR for this fiscal year, which is 2020 to 2021; and the definition of the target audience and survey participants. Any further discussion? If not, yes, I will call for the roll call vote. Mr. Ventura, your vote please. MR. VENTURA: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you. Ms. Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Kunz. MR. KUNZ: Aye. Page 12 Merit Appeals Board CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Cabanas—aye. April 26, 2021 Motion carried to go into executive session. And so, now we will take a brief recess at 12:07 p.m. RECONVENE: The meeting reconvened at 1:36 p.m. in open session. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. This is Ms. Cabanas reconvening our regular meeting of the Merit Appeals Board at 1:36 p.m. on April 26, 2021. We discussed the annual evaluation process for the director of human resources for fiscal 2020 to 2021 in executive session. And so, now may I have a motion to approve the process for the evaluation—annual evaluation of the director of human resources for fiscal year 2020 to 2021. MR. VENTURA: So, moved. CHR. CABANAS: Thank you, Mr. Ventura, for the motion. May I have a second? MS. MATHEWS: Second. CHR. CABANAS: Seconded by Ms. Mathews for the approval of the process for the annual evaluation of the HR director for fiscal year 2020 to 2021. I will take a roll call vote. Mr. Ventura. MR. VENTURA: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Mathews. MS. MATHEWS: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Mr. Kunz. MR. KUNZ: Aye. CHR. CABANAS: Ms. Cabanas—aye. Motion has been approved with four aye votes approving the process for the annual evaluation of the HR director for fiscal year 2020 to 2021 for the HR director. Director's Report (Item 8) MAB Quarterly Reports: January — March 2021; Negotiations Update; Departmental Updates (Previously taken out of order.) Page 13 Merit Appeals Board April 26,2021 Schedule Next Meeting Date (Item 9) CHR. CABANAS: On the agenda, "Scheduling the Next Meeting Date"is May 26, 2021, as we discussed at the last meeting on March 31, 2021, the meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers with Mr. Ventura zooming—appearing through Zoom. It will start off at ten a.m. with the appear—with an appeal hearing followed by the regular Merit Appeals Board meeting. Okay. Adjournment (Item 10) CHR. CABANAS: So, at this time,may I have a motion to adjourn today's meeting? MR. KUNZ: So moved. CHR. CABANAS: Moved by Mr. Kunz. May I have a second? MS. MATHEWS: Second. CHR. CABANAS: Second by Ms. Mathews for the adjournment of the meeting at 1:39 p.m. Thank you, everybody. Respectfully submitted, tt 1/14,1.) A Glynis Yama.., Secretary-Reporter APPROVED: ail W tL , /Vl . C..a.1(7(.4-144-%--- Gabriella -%---Gabriella M. Cabanas, Chair Merit Appeals Board Page 14