HAR §17-2021-12. Selection of hearing officer

(a) A grievance hearing shall be conducted by an impartial person or persons appointed by the authority after consultation with resident organizations, as described below: (1) The authority and resident organizations shall nominate a slate of impartial persons to sit as hearing officers. Such persons may include authority board members, authority staff members, tenants in compliance with the lease agreement, professional arbitrators or mediators, or others. The initial slate of nominees shall consist of not more than twenty persons, of whom at least two shall be from each county. (2) The authority will check with each nominee to determine whether there is an interest in serving as a hearing officer, whether the nominee feels fully capable of impartiality, whether the nominee can serve without compensation, and what limitations on the nominee's time would affect such service. (3) Nominees who are not interested in serving as hearing officers or whose time is too limited to make service practical will be withdrawn and other names will be 2021-7 2997