Senate Standing Committee on Labor and Technology

Good afternoon, everyone. Will the committee on labor and technology please come to order? This is our 3PM agenda. Today is 04/13/2026, and we're in Conference Room 225. This hearing is also being streamed on the Hawaii state Senate's YouTube channel.

Just a few housekeeping announcements. In the unlikely case of technical failures, this meeting will reconvene here in Conference Room 225 on 04/15/2026 at 3PM. For all testifiers, including those on Zoom, we ask that you stand on your written testimony. If your oral testimony is different than your written testimony, the time limit for each testifier will be one minute. The content, including the hearing notice, copies of the measures, and testimony can be found on the legislature's website.

If time permits, decision making will occur after we hear from all those offering testimony. And I just also like to thank all the participants, including the nominees for being flexible in your schedule as we originally had this agenda for Friday, but due to the weather, we rescheduled for today. So thank you for your flexibility. We want to ensure that everyone was safe, and thank you to the members as well.

Members, if there are no objections, the chair would like to take one item out of order, to accommodate the person's schedule.

This is for GM 779 for Mark Fong Savat, for Workforce Development Council. So, we'll take that first, and then we'll go in subsequent orders after that, if there are no objections. Okay. Hearing none. We'll begin with GM 779, which is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Hawaii Workforce Development Council gubernatorial nominee, Mark Fong Savat, for a term to expire on 06/30/2030. First up, DLIR.

Director Butai. Okay. Thank you, director. Testimony in support. We also have chair of WDC, Mr. Dimelo. Okay. Thank you. Standing on testimony in support. Michael Pacheco, IBEW 1186. Okay. Standing on testimony support. Thank you.

That concludes of those registered to testify. Is there—I note that there are a total of 10 in support, zero in opposition, and zero comments. Anyone else on GM 779? K. If not, we'll call on the nominee.

Aloha and welcome, and congratulations on your appointment.

Aloha, chair, vice chair, and members of the committee. My name is Mark Fong Savat. I'm not—I would like to thank you for consideration and nomination for workforce development council. I have a vision to, to help and support the workforce development also in the state of Hawaii through my expertise in in the labor field as electrician. Not just electrician, but also a labor community member as well.

I think I have a, a young perspective, and I wanna, I wanna help and support with the generational commitments for Workforce Development Council in, in support of the, the North Shore objectives. I'm here to answer any questions you may have, but I believe I have a strong, strong expertise and willing to help in anywhere I possibly can.

Okay. Thank you. Members, any questions for the nominee? Okay. The only two-part question I have for you, Mark, is are you able to commit, for the time, and is this your first time serving on a board of commission?

Yes. Yes, sir. This is the first time I'm on the Workforce Development Council, and I do have a full commitment. I will commit all my time, anytime that is available for myself to, to be on this, whatever may need possible.

Okay. Thank you, members. Any other questions? Okay. If not, members, in the interest of time for the nominee, if we don't mind, if we could just vote on, on this, and then we'll vote on all the others as we take them up.

So, chair's prepared to make a recommendation on GM 779, and chair's recommend this is for gubernatorial nominee, Mark Fong Savat, for a term to expire on 06/30/2030. Chair's recommendations is to advise and consent. Any further discussion? If not, madam vice chair Lamosao for the vote. Chair votes aye.

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Okay. Thank you so much. Congratulations.

Thank you, Senator. Thank you, sir.

And safe travels.

Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. We'll go back to to the top of the agenda, which is GM 792. This is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Hawaii workforce development council gubernatorial nominee, Cheryl Cross, for a term to expire on 06/30/2030. First up is director Butai. Chair, madam, vice chair, and members. K. Standing on testimony support. Thank you. Chair Keith D'Mello, WDC.

We'll turn to work for the government council.

Okay. Standing on testimony support. Thank you. And then that's all I have that are registered to testify. Anyone else that wishes to testify on GM 792?

I note that there are 14 in support, zero in opposition, and zero comments. K. And with that, we'll call on the nominee, miss Cross. Aloha. Welcome and congratulations.

Aloha. Thank you so much, chair and vice chair. So nice to meet you, members of the committee. I am graciously and honorably asking for a second term to serve another four years as a workforce development council person. It has been a wonderful past four years.

I intend to continue the good work that we have started. My work has been focused on employer engagement, military veteran affairs, and military spouse employment. I hope to continue those and maybe a few others, maybe along with Mark who will hopefully make it as well. That's about it. Do you have any questions for me?

K. Thank you so much. Members, any questions for the nominee?

Just one

Yes, Senator Moriwaki?

Thank you for serving your first term. I'm just wondering, what do you see as the challenges going forward and how you might, contribute to that with your experience?

As an exec thank you, Senator. And as an executive recruiter and dealing with the talent, constriction that we have not only at 2.2 unemployment, but nationally 4.4. You Hawaii has always sat a little bit below that threshold, even nationally. And I think that as an executive recruiter working directly with employers in my work through Inkeden Executive Search, but also just the knowledge of the Indo Pacific and the hiring trends.

My I really think that, you know, we have to admit that we are an out migration state, but we also have the ability to bring people back because the Mainland isn't always the perfect place to work.

So I think it works both ways. We have a tremendous amount of talent that could be available to go learn and skill somewhere else and come back with new, experiences, but we also have that workforce that is willing to return. Also, I'd like to add, Senator, that, you know, you and I have talked about this in the past. We have a wonderful crop of people that is not working. We have these underrepresented, undervalued work, populations.

Our kupuna or older workforce as AARP likes me to say. And also, you know, those underrepresented groups, military spouses being one of them. So

So are there any areas that you see recruitment could be accelerated because of our needs, our demands in terms of the workforce needed? Indeed. And and these underrepresented groups or or any other groups?

I do. And thank you for always asking thoughtful questions, Senator. I was just at a panel, watching a panel about six months ago for Hawaii Business Magazine. Mayor Rick Blangiardi had brought this up and I was so impressed because this is work that one of the committees and I did was to bring more military spouse employment talk into the vernacular. And for him to say as mayor, we can do a better job at the city and county of hiring military spouses.

This is a 21% national unemployment group. We need to hire more military spouses. I think opportunities like that, it simply isn't that people don't want to do this, they just don't know And workforce development, we have the opportunity to build those bridges and I think that we could do it.

In fact, not to go ahead, the Special Projects Committee is meeting on Friday and our working group, which was pulled over from the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, will be talking about a online hiring initiative that we would like to propose. So yes, I do believe there's lots we can do just for that one group but for many more as well.

Thank you. Thank you, chair.

Thank you. Interesting. Yep. Senator Fevella.

Since since you brought that up, I mean, what what what kind of, I guess, challenges you feel that workforce development have with pathways for kids that are coming out of school? And I said I'm not going to college, but trying to get into the workforce. What what kind of development are you guys looking into reaching out to that demographics?

Well, I know that there is a concerted effort to continue to embolden with the good work that the DOE is doing. One l Kaneshiro has been placed in a workforce development role. Thank you to superintendent Keith Hayashi. You know, Hawaii has set a standard, Senator, for Academies program. You had the first credit union in a high school, I believe, for any state.

So the fact that you're willing to train a workforce in order to maintain a workforce and retain a workforce is really impressive. I think with the trades and our our new, applicant and hopefully somebody will be joining our council, you know, we need to put a lot more intention, not just allow those labor and trade organizations to train these folks, but to also pay attention to how we might embolden people in skills based trade. I am a technical trade school graduate, not a college graduate.

I went to a technical trade school and because I was at a state that empowered me to do that because I was a high school graduate, I went into a field of technical broadcasting. So I think that there's just a lot of opportunity there.

We all have good intentions. We're all pointing in the right direction, but there might be a little bit more oomph needed in terms of the trades. And I mean skilled trades like plumbing, HVAC, even CDL drivers. So we could talk more about this, but I think that we are all pointing in that direction and wanting to empower the programs that exist and hopefully bring new programs to the fore.

Yeah. I I glad you say that because, you know, when when I was in school back in the day, they used to have carpentry, you know, body body and fender, and a lot of stuff like that. And then I know, Campbell has a lot of good academies working with, with Pahu and, going forward with. I think our school is the one with the credit union, on campus.

Anyway but I'm glad that you guys are looking I'm glad you guys are looking into into that because, a lot of our schools in the district have good wood shops that is not, using for carpentry, metal shops, are not going into sheet metal work.

I think once we start getting those pathways and work development with the DOE, I think we can have a stronger workforce with the with the percentage of the kids that are not being able to go to college because they cannot afford it or they're not into going college and they wanna work with their hands. So, again, thank you. Thank you for your service. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you, Senator.

Thank you, chair. Thank you. Any further follow-up questions? The chair does have one. I know you did highlight a lot, miss Cross, about your work with military spouses.

And being that this is your second term that you're going for, I know it is also brought up in from a lot of your people in support of your nomination as advocates for you that you do have a lot of experience in this. So how would you look at implementing and taking an effort to do job placements for as you mentioned, I think, was 20% in terms of military spouses not working or not knowing about it.

And so could you maybe share with the committee and the public what are your ideas on implementation?

Sure. I wish I could get into the weeds on implementation. There's a lot of big ideas, and I don't think I have enough time. But I wrote a book, which is a three year guide for civilians' military transitioning into civilian careers.

I've used that as the basis of what I've tried to explain is I believe the military needs to do a little bit better job in helping these programs start earlier so that those transitioning service people have the opportunity to sort of pregame it, not just three months, six months before they actually are available after active duty.

With that said, what the state and city and counties have done, I think we already started implementing, we are going on to military space, bases with the AJCs. And thanks to the good work of Anne Greenlee, of Carol for the WDD and so many people all the AJC, well the AJCs here, AJC here on Oahu, they've made such a concerted effort to reach out to this subpopulation we'll call them, you know, military dependents or military spouses are underrepresented in my mind.

I don't think it's technically we could call them that. But because of that high unemployment, we should look at them as a very special group. We will continue, I will continue whether or not I get numb I am confirmed today or not.

I will continue this charge because it is so important. The work I do every day at Inkinen, I get to talk about this. The end of each year, I get to say how many veterans I was able to employ, how many people transitioning from the military I was able to keep in Hawaii. And then lastly, I'll just share this with you. Again, not necessarily what I would do to implement it, but more education.

About 10,000 people we determined could potentially stay in Hawaii after active duty service. Those are service men and women. So, what if or how might we keep those folks here? What could we do as a state to empower them? We believe that military spouses with 60% of that population being married, that if we could employ them while their active duty spouse is working, then they have a higher percentage to stay.

As an executive or even corporate recruiter, I heard so many people coming out of the military. My wife loves her job. My husband loves his job. We want to make Hawaii home. And what wouldn't that be wonderful if we could just fill all the jobs at the city, county, and state with these folks that could potentially stay here?

Thank you. Members, any other further questions? Okay. If not, thank you, and we'll do decision making at the end of our calendar. So thank you so much, miss Cross.

K, members. We'll move on to our next item, which is GM seven nine three. This is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Hawaii workforce development council, gubernatorial nominee, Ashleigh Loa, for a term to expire on 06/30/2030. First up is director Butai. Thank you. Standing on testimony and support. Chair Dimello.

Hello, chair of the Workforce Development Council stands on our written testimony and support.

Yeah. Standing on testimony and support. Thank you. Chris Caulfield.

Law chair, vice chair, committee members. I'm Chris Caulfield. Speaking of my own capacity, I don't usually speak on GMs, but I am just so excited and could not express how strong my support is for Ashleigh Loa being a part of the Workforce Development Council. She's one of the most dynamic and brilliant leaders I've ever had the privilege of working with personally or professionally. You know, when we're talking about workforce development, we need to talk about marginalized communities and those who are left behind.

And her whole career has been about uplifting marginalized voices. When she was at Faith Action, she was working on the social determinants of of health and social determinants of things like our economy, working with native Hawaiian populations and underprivileged populations in order to make sure that they were empowered and could fully participate in our economy.

That's exactly the kind of visionary leadership and experience that I think we need on the Workforce Development Council, especially when we're looking at building a twenty first century workforce that responds to all of our needs. And just at a personal level, you know, she's one of the most empathetic people that I've ever known, always working to uplift lived experience, leading with vulnerability, leading with compassion.

I think that, you know, I know professionally and personally, I've definitely she's been indispensable to me, and I know that she would be invaluable to our state. So I hope that she's appointed just very much strongly in support of her her confirmation. Thank you so much. K.

Thank you, Chris. That completes our list of registered testifiers on this. We received a total of 15 in support, zero in opposition, and zero comments. Anyone else on GM 793? K.

If not, we'll call on the nominee, miss Loa Aloha and welcome, and congratulations on your appointment.

Thank you. Aloha, chair, vice chair, and members of the committee. My name is Ashleigh Loa, and if confirmed, this would be my first time on the workforce development council. Before I share a little bit about my professional experience

You can just speak into the mic if you don't mind. Thank you.

I wanna share, why I'm here. So about ten years ago, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution as to why why people are are able to to stay in Hawaii. And I and everything that I've been doing since then has been in with that goal in mind. Like a lot of other people, I have lost count of how many, friends and family members I have had to say goodbye to. And so selfishly, I don't wanna have to keep doing that.

For me, that means I am saying good bye to friends and family, but for Hawaii, that means that we're saying good bye to teachers and healthcare workers, and social workers. And and these are all people that we as a community rely on. On a much smaller scale, kind of similar to what the WDC is responsible for in my role as an operations and I oversee operations and HR functions at a non profit organization with offices across the state.

And so that means I develop the job descriptions, all of the the performance management. I do all of the onboarding and training as well as the state interviews and the exit interviews.

And the purpose of the stay interview is to ask people what can we do to get you to stay, because I don't wanna have to get to the point of doing an exit interview and asking what could we have done. Similarly, I think that this is what the the workforce development council should be doing is figuring out how we can get people to stay so that we're we're not having to ask what could we have done differently.

And I I I hope to not be here in 2045 asking for a position on this council again because, hopefully, by that time, something will have been done. So I can answer any questions if you have any.

K. Thank you. Miss Lowell, members, any questions? Senator Moriwaki?

Hi, Ashleigh. Thank you for trying to come up and having to serve on the the hiring end or at least helping to the dis disable the disadvantaged to get jobs and seeing how we can get them to be more interested in working, not only in in private sector, but in in government as well. What what do you see in your advocacy work? I know from Faith Action and all of the outreach that you do.

How will you outreach so that you can make that match between jobs and and and the people out there who need jobs?

Thank you for that. It's nice to see you again. And if anybody knows me, you will know that I love to and I like to talk story.

And so I love just to talk to people and understand what it is that that is, you know, that what was the reason that they're deciding to leave. So for example, less than twenty four hours ago, I sat with five of my friends, and there were three different stories. Two of them are small business owners, one came back home from Hawaii, she's an early education teacher, and the other one is thinking about leaving in a couple of months.

And so I think having having that relationship with people and and desire to understand where people are coming from and what's driving them out is what I I can contribute. And I I'm not looking to to change the unified plan or anything, but I do want to contribute, and I do want to learn from all of these people who have already been doing the work.

And how do you think it might translate then to policy?

Oh, okay. Well, just contributing to the conversation of being that middle person between the policy part and the community and what the community is saying and bringing that to the council and saying this is the training that this is what's missing. So for example, if I may, my teacher friend, she was saying that it's hard for her to to move within the the workforce because the education and the training is not there for her to go from one position or one sector to another.

And so she feels like she's kind of stuck in that area. And I hope to bring that to the council and and ask, like, what can be done.

And, yeah, that answers your question. I'm sorry. Senator. It's fine.

K. Any other questions, members? K. The chair has, a few questions. First, are you able to commit the time that may be required from serving on WDC?

Yes, chair.

Okay. And then a second follow-up to that. I know a lot of your experience is on the nonprofit side, and WDC does bring in people from all sectors, labor unions, nonprofits. But as you know, we have a average 24% vacancy in our state. So how do you feel that you can use your experience on the nonprofit private side to help us align with filling in some of these vacancies at our state level?

And I know a lot of it will take time learning the process, but do you have any initial ideas with maybe how we can improve and create pipelines for some of the concerns that have been raised from, you know, whether it's on the youth side, whether it's on military spouses, or different areas?

I don't have any I well, I don't have any ideas right now, but I yeah. Sorry about that.

Oh, no. That's that's fine. I was just curious if you had any That come to mind.

No. Oh, no. I I don't have any ideas right now. Sorry.

Okay. But you would certainly be open to looking at ways to improve on some systems or processes. Yes. Okay. Any other questions, members?

K. If not, thank you so much.

Thank you.

We'll move on to our next and our last item which is GM774. This is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the labor and industrial relations appeals board gubernatorial nominee Douglas Moore for a term to expire on 06/30/2036. And first up on our list, we have is director Butai. K. Thank you.

Standing on testimony and support. Lo Chan Hoon. I have this person down as in person. IT, is this person on Zoom? Not present, sir.

Okay. Not present. And then we also have in person Gilbert C Doles. Is that person on Zoom?

Not present, sir.

K. Thank you. I do see mister Ata, but you're not listed as a registered to testify. Did you wanna I'm sorry. Stand on your testimony in support? Okay. That completes our list of registered testifiers for this GM. I'll note that we have 11 in support, zero in opposition, and zero comments.

And with that, I'd like to call on the nominee, mister Moore. Aloha and welcome, and congratulations on your nomination.

Thank you. As a lawyer, I have to always have a yellow pad.

Not a problem. If you if we could just kindly ask you if you could speak in the mic, please. Sure. You could move it closer to you. Yes.

Thank you. Aloha and good afternoon, honorable chair, honorable vice chair, honorable committee members, and a special shout out to the staff of the the chair for their excellent assistance.

Yes.

My name is Douglas Thomas Moore. I am an attorney here in Hawaii. Thank you for taking the time to time and effort to interview me for the Labor Appeals Board vacancy. Thanks to all the people and organizations for their support of my nomination, and I thank governor Crean. It's taken me thirty five years thirty five years to be here, thirty five years of caring, hard work, representing injured people of Hawaii, whether on the state or the federal levels of workers' compensation.

Private practice has been my forum, but now I have the opportunity to enter public service again and give back to the people of Hawaii with my many thanks for all that Hawaii has given to me. You have my CV. You have my answers to the chair's questions. I will not take up your time repeating the same matters. Let me just say my first mission after my confirmation will be to tackle the backlog at the Labor Appeals Board. I'm happy to answer your questions here. Mahalo.

K. Members, any questions for mister Moore? Senator Moriwaki?

Hi. Thank you for agreeing to serve. I see that you have both federal and state experience. And you mentioned in your, responses to, the chair that you see differences but similarities in the two systems, and you know what is working, what isn't working, and how to remedy. So could you expound on that, please?

Well, it's a a a lot of question there. Thank you, Senator.

What is working? What is it? And how do you solve it?

The federal system has some I has some systems that we used that I think we should implement on the state level. There was one thing called an informal conference, which helped which helped to expedite problem cases that were were being contested. One of the problems that I remember when I used to do state work, and I did twenty years of that, was getting a hearing, getting a decision quickly. We've got people who are out there not getting paid, not getting benefits, not getting the medical care.

We we need to to to expedite that system. And, I think that an informal conference or there's also other types of, ADR such as, mediation. So the that's one of the things that I wanna tackle is getting things done quickly to help our injured people. And I think that the federal level has ideas. But on the state level, I know that we got hardworking people, but, you know, we need to to give them better tools, I think. What else

So any other areas that you see in in terms of the system of what's working that you've been practicing in in the labor appeals? What works in addition to the conferencing, the informal conferencing? What other kinds of things do you see that we could really improve on our Labor Appeals Board processing?

Well, one thing I think we need to do is recruit more practitioners in the area of workers' compensation. There's a sore lack of particularly young people coming into the the field of workers' compensation. So I'd like to to perhaps set up tables up at law school, see if we can recruit some people to come into the system right away. But I I see that as the maybe the longer term, but short term, mediation, informal conferences, I think those would help a lot.

So you think the the informal conferencing can be something that you can help you to expedite the the backlog? You say you're gonna hit the ground running to address the backlog. Absolutely. Is that any any other suggestions you might have of the to the chair or the board on how you might expedite the processing of the heavy backlog?

Well, honestly, I've been out of the state system for about ten years. And so I think when I get an opportunity to take a look at everything again, I'll be able to come up with some further ideas. So I'm just relying on what's being told to me by other people is that one of the big problems is the backlog. And while we have a backlog, people aren't getting their benefits. So we gotta come up with a better system.

And I think informal conferences are were the way way to go because it expedites expedites the issues, the the parties, the claims. And in my practice, in federal practice, I would say that that probably resolves ninety percent of the the cases. We got all these cases that are being appealed just kind of pro form a, And and they should only be appealed when there's good reason for it. And I think through an informal conference process, we can identify those cases which really shouldn't be on appeal. They can be resolved without appeal.

Bring people to the table. Bring people to talk. Bring people to to to have their positions, stated and have the people given the opportunity to to tell their stories so that we can make decisions right away. Thank you. I hope that answered your question, Senator.

K. Members, any further follow-up questions? The chair has a few follow-up questions for you, mister Moore. So in terms of the backlog and thank you for taking the time to meet with me as well. To my knowledge, this is the first that I've heard of any backlog. I don't know if the director has heard anything in relation to this, but I was just curious if you're hearing this anecdotally through different parties, or is this come maybe from firsthand experience of you practicing as an attorney to come before the board of appeals?

Well, I think it's coming from one of the other Board Members has has told me.

Okay. Okay. So you're hearing this from sort of a secondhand Yeah. Knowledge.

Plus practitioners are saying it too.

Okay. Okay. I totally understand. Okay. This is the first time that I'm I'm hearing this as as chair of this committee.

You know, I I didn't know anything about it until here I am back at the state. Yeah. And suddenly, it's a big issue.

K. So the second question I have for you is I I know you have represented clients, and for the law firm that you do have How do you foresee that if you are confirmed? What will happen with that? And the clients that you represent for that, like, what's that transition period look like?

Well, I have a variety of clients. I have, actually a couple of old state work comp cases. Those, I'm

Sorry, if you could just speak a little closer into the mic so they can pick you could move in closer.

I I think the answer is I'm I'm trying to farm out cases already.

Okay.

Particularly my longshore cases, which there's no other attorney who does longshore cases in Hawaii. And, I do, Jones Act cases. Those are injured semen. As far as I know, there's only one other practitioner in Hawaii that does that kind of work. So what I'm trying to do is farm out to some, attorneys on the Mainland.

And, of course, you know, they wanna get the file and review it and everything else and discuss it. And then I have to get my client's approval, of course. And I can't help it, but they want me to be their lawyer.

But, you know, I've got a couple of cases that are with other main Mainland attorneys.

But how long will it take to clear clear those out? I I can't tell you right now because, you know, it's a slow process.

Right. And then the last question I have is, being that this is a a small panel of three members and it's a tenure appointment, you'll come across a lot of cases. My understanding is this is the first time that you'd be serving on a board and commission. In this role, can you be impartial and fair in your decision making as you do the research on each case?

Well, I think so. And and I think I have a reputation for that. I've been a zealous advocate for my clients. And, you know, when you go to court, you gotta be that. But you can also be fair and impartial.

You can be courteous. You can be professional. Those are all traits that I hope all attorneys here practice with with the that kind of decorum. I don't know if that answered your question.

It does. Yeah. Thank you. Members, any further thoughts? Senator Morawaki?

Thank you. As a follow-up, I know that your cases are with longshoremen and and so that might be federal. But do you have any cases that might be something where there might be a conflict coming before the state agency, the labor appeals board?

I have two cases that are state work comp cases. And I've already reached out to a work comp practitioner to take those two cases. So those are the only ones that I have on the state level. Everything else is on the federal level.

And so going back to the chair's question of being impartial, now you're gonna be the arbiter and not the advocate. So I know with a three person panel how that might I don't know how the labor appeals board deals with it. But, again, being impartial and seeing both sides of the case.

Well, I I I think I can do that simply because of the way, you know, I am as a person. And I'm always pushing for fairness. You see in my resume that I've chaired some state bar committees. And always, it's been, you know, treat the other side with impartiality. Treat the other side with courtesy.

Look at their point of view. Not just advocate, but look at their point of view and understand their point of view and and make a fair decision. And what's a fair decision? I mean, that's a lot of subjectiveness sometimes. If there's issues with with, other Board Members, we let's put them on the table.

Let's talk about them.

Yep. You're welcome. Any further follow-up questions, members? K. If not, thank you so much, mister Moore.

Thank you, sir.

Okay. Members, we will be moving to decision making if there are no objections to that. We'll go back to the top of the agenda. We'll begin with GM seven ninety two. This is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Hawaii Workforce Development Council gubernatorial nominee, Cheryl Cross, for a term to expire on 06/30/2030.

Chair's recommendation is to advise and consent. Any further discussion? If not, vice chair for the vote, chair votes aye.

For GM seven ninety two, recommendation of the chair is to advise and consent, noting the excuse absence of Senator Ihara. Anyone present wanting to vote with reservations or no? Hearing none, chair recognition is adopted.

Thank you. Our next item is GM793. This is submitting for oh, congratulations, I should say. Sorry. Thank you.

Getting ahead of ourselves here. GM 793, this is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the Hawaii Workforce Development Council gubernatorial nominee, Ashley Loa, for term to expire on 06/30/2030. Chair's recommendation is to advise and consent. Any further discussion? If not, madam vice chair, La Mosafor the vote, chair votes aye.

For GM seven ninety three, recommendation of the chair is to advise and consent. Anyone present wanting to vote with reservations or no? Hearing none, chair recrimination is adopted.

And congratulations, Ms. Lowell. And then we did take up GM seven seventy nine earlier in our agenda, which leads us to our last item, which is in our final item of this session on advising consent for labor and technology, which is GM seven seventy four. This is submitting for consideration and confirmation to the labor and industrial relations appeals board, gubernatorial nominee Douglas Moore for a term to expire on 06/30/2036. Chair's recommendation is to advise and consent. Any further discussion? If not, vice chair for the vote. Chair votes aye.

Okay. For GM seven seventy four, recommendation of the chairs to advise and consent. Anyone present wanting to vote with reservations or no? Hearing none, chair recommendation is adopted.

And congratulations, mister Moore. This concludes our agenda for today. We are adjourned.