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Minutes of Personnel Board - October 25, 1982 Page 5 • Meeting with the Selectmen and the Executive. Secretary, cont. Caroline made reference to the Town of Falmouth and how no time can be taken up front with pay. Sel. Garland said that the new contract will now read that time accumulated by July 1 must be taken that year. Sel. Thomas commented that now they have had fair warning. Sel. Garland said it bothers him about rumors. He made reference to the patrolman requesting unearned vacation time and how they sat down and worked out an alternate compromise by suggesting a personal day and one extra day without pay. Then the change came about to allow past practices to continue until July 1, 1983 and then- there is an agreement that all past practice will cease. It was the opinion of Atty. Gilman that you may achieve far more in the long run by doing it this way. The Executive Secretary said that it will be something that will not have to be talked about in negotiations next time. Caroline asked about the other contracts? The Executive Secretary said that it will be a long process and that the whole issue of the clerical contract was clouded as they wanted it similar to the Highway contract., He said that the change won't happen overnight and that there is no reason why the P.A.P. • cannot act as the lead mentioning that Attorney Gilman could draft some language for the P.A.P. Dave asked about the approval of requests for time? The Executive Secretary said that the approval of request for time is an administering role and that if an employee had the time, the Personnel Board could approve it. Dave said that he felt they need guidelines. Sel. Garland said that one is administrative role and the other is an interperative role. Caroline asked if some of the problems lay with the Department Heads? Sel. Garland replied "definitely". Caroline commented that the Department Heads should lay down the rules. Sel. Thomas said that the Police and Fire Chiefs can make many of the decisions in her opinion. The Executive Secretary made reference to the Bevaqua grievance which should not have come over here commenting that 90% of the problems in the Union are management problems. Caroline made reference to immature person on Fire Department which should be toned down. • Sel. Thomas commented that it should be up to Department Head. Caroline commented about the plan presented to the firefighters by the Fire Chief and how the Chief mentioned that one man gave him an argument.