The Personnel Board of Merced, California met on September 14, 2026, at 4:00 PM. The meeting included approval of the consent calendar, a monthly report from the Personnel Department, and scheduling of an appeal hearing for a terminated employee.
Hello. Hello. Hello. Mic check. Hello. Start the meeting. So this is the personnel board meeting of September 14th, 2026. I hereby call the meeting to order. So if we had all stand for the pledge. I pledge a leader. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for. And Christopher, would you call roll, please? Yes. All righty. Roll call. Pamela Tacanis. Absolutely Alberto Escobido. Absent. Melissa Reyes. Present. Phyllis Viscara. Present. Dorothea Lynn White. Present. All right. Thank you. So for public comment. Seeing no one in the audience, we'll proceed to the next item. All right, so next item would be our consent calendar. So adoption of the consent calendar may be made by a motion of the uh board, provided any member individual or organization may request to remove an item from the consent calendar for separate consideration. If a correct request for removal of an item from the consent calendar has been received, the item will be discussed and voted separately. So at this time, do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I motion to approve by second. So there's been a uh motion and a second. If everyone go ahead, is there any discussion? No discussion. Uh we can go ahead and vote. And it looks like unanimous vote to approve the consent calendar. Unanimous. All right. So that takes us all the way to reports. All right. So CRISPR, uh, will you go ahead and give our monthly report, please? Of course. All righty. In the month of August, we had five recruitments. Those recruitments were as follows maintenance worker, payroll technician, safety coordinator, sewer storm drain worker, and systems technician. Um we had a total of 15 full-time hires as well as 10 temporary hires.