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Personnel Board Minutes Meeting of August128,, 1989 _ Page 3 Meeting With Ernie Virgilio , cont . Jane Stockbridge asked Ernie if his people did some of the things on the maintenance setup? Ernie repli'ed 'that they do not have money and do not have the people and it is back in their lap 'again . He commented that he is in the process of figuring how much money is needed which will be in the hundred thousand dollar bracket . Manny Glickman asked if there were any additional burdens? Ernie re- plied that the new school, was additional as his department maintains all mowings . They also maintain allwoodlandsthat the town has purchased . Also , there has been an increase in the amount of town owned roads . Manny Glickman asked what the future status was of the temporary employees? Ernie replied that he will take one of the four temporaries and put them on permanently with the opening of George Maddox . It will be an in-house advertisement. Jane Stockbridge pointed out that the P .A .P . currently allows for benefits of temporary employees with work more than six months for unforseen reasons . Ernie replied that if his articles did not go through at the special town meeting he would pursue the benefits for his employees . Ben Lofchie noted that the article needed to be worded properly to in- clude a breakdown of appropriation for the benefits . He asked that Ernie designate one of his office staff to work with the Personnel Assistant in getting the proper wording for the article . Part-Time Help ( less than 20 hrs . ) Both Manny Glickman and Jane Stockbridge said that they have been doing some review .of benefits for part-time help ( less than 20 hrs . ) . The Personnel Assistant said that she had contacted the Mass . Municipal Association about benefits for part-time help ( less than 20hrs . ) and they said that it isn ' t the norm for towns to give benefits to those positions . Manny Glickman said that he hoped it would save money be- cause it will be less of a turnover of personnel . Jane Stockbridge said that she was amazed to find that temporary people do have benefits in her review of the P .A.P . Some discussioncenteredon classifying these positions . Jane Stockbridge recommended that they be called Standard Part Time and Non=Standard Part- Time Positions . - - More study will be made by Manny and Jane . Manny asked to discuss a few things with the assistant during the week . He said that he wanted to make it clear in his mind what the difference was between a part-time person less than 20 hours and a temporary part-time person working less than 20 hours . Temporary Help - Treasurer ' s Office The Assistant advised- the- Board that the application deadline had closed for the advertisement of temporary help in the Treasurer ' s Office . Since Leo Turo is the liaison person for that department and is in the hospital , the Board asked the assistant to ask Chairman Sullivan to review the ap- plications .