1999-10-27 Quarterly Meeting
MINUTES
Personnel Advisory Board
4th Quarter Regular Meeting
October 27, 1999
5: 15 p.m.
1. CALL TO ORDER
The Personnel Advisory Board 4th quarter regular meeting of October 27, 1999 was
called to order by chairperson, Chris Jamin at 5:20 p.m. in the borough conference room.
II. ROLL CALL
Present
Absent
Staff Present
Chris J amin
B ill King
Jody Spivey
Warren Russell
Chris Nielsen
Barb Templeton
Dave Jensen
A quorum was established.
III. ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA
The agenda was accepted as submitted.
IV. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS REGULAR MEETING
The minutes of the 3rd quarter meeting of August 25th 1999 were approved as submitted.
V. ITEMS OF BUSINESS
Receipt of an updated Personnel Status Report for the period 8/21/99 through 10/18/99
was acknowledged and accepted.
VI. COMMENTS
Chris Jamin asked why we had a vacant assistant clerk position. Ms. Templeton
explained that Kay Steffey, hired for the position in July, was pursuing an accounting
degree and had accepted a position with an accounting firm. She informed the board that
four good candidates had been selected for interviews, which would be completed this
week.
Borough Manager, Dave Jensen, informed the board that he recently had a brief
conversation with Jenny Day-Peterson, IBEW business manager and representative for
the borough employees. He and Ms. Peterson had agreed to hold off on union
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discussions until the borough's FY 2000 budget was more fully developed with realistic
revenue projections. Mr. Jensen indicated to Ms. Peterson that it will be another very
difficult budget year and that his goal will be to try and maintain status quo.
Ms. Jamin agreed that anything more than status quo would be most difficult to achieve
under continuing budget constraints and reduced state revenues.
Ms. Spivey commented that if status quo is maintained, employees will still receive
annual step increases and that borough employees are well compensated in terms of
wages and benefits.
Mr. Jensen indicated that union employees would need to bring any requests for wage
increases to their union representative.
Newest board member, Bill King, told the board that his personal experience was in the
military and asked for clarification that some borough positions were union and others
non-union. He mentioned that he had heard that IBEW dues seemed very high for
borough employees.
Mr. Jensen clarified that department heads, the manager's office and the clerk's office
were non-union positions due to their supervisory or confidential status. He also
commented that the borough seemed to have no problems regarding grievances and that
the employees are aware that we have another tight budget year ahead of us. He told the
board that he will fulfill his responsibility to bargain in good faith, but will bargain hard
to hold the line on salary increases. He also indicated to the board that borough
employment is at a bare bones level and that we have no fat to cut regarding positions
and still maintain basic services.
Barb Templeton informed the board that she would be leaving borough employment in
mid-January and preferred not to burden a new employee or new board members with the
annual task of reviewing changed job descriptions in January, 2000.
The board scheduled the next meeting for December 8, 1999 in order to review major
changes in job descriptions before the FY 2000 budget process is under way and before
Ms. Templeton is replaced.
Mr. Jensen left for another appointment at 5:50 p.m.
Chris Jamin, Jody Spivey and Bill King gave Ms. Templeton their email addresses and
requested that they routinely receive draft copies of meeting minutes by email or fax as
soon as they are completed while the meeting is stiii fresh in their minds.
VII. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 5:55 p.m.
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