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Personnel Board Minutes Meeting of Novembert27 , 1989 Page 2 The other memo that the Board requested to be sent to the Board of Select- men dealt with notifying department heads to submit copies of articles to the Personnel Board when intending to increase their personnel . This directly effects the Personnel budget in regards to physicals , etc . With regard to the Education Account , and attempting to comply with a cut of 5% for this fiscal year , the Board felt that they could reduce the education account ( P . A .P . portion only ) by $125 . As far as the Board ' s Expense Account , the Board feels that they cannot reduce it this fiscal year because of unforseen physicals of personnel . Re-C_ ap_ on Meeting W/Selectman Ha_ nson_ , Sel . Carter The Personnel Assiatant advised the Board thatshe met with Selectman Hanson , Selectman Carter , Jeff Nutting , Joyce Mason , Chief Ridgeway and Ben Lofchie to discuss a few pressing issues . One issue had to do with advertising of town positions . In a most recent incident , the help- wanted advertisement for the Administrative Secretary to the Fire Chief . did not run in the newspaper as requested . Neither the Personnel - Assis- tant nor the Fire Chief were advised by the Interim Executive Secretary, or Joyce Mason of their decision to decrease the length of time the ad was to run . Chief Ridgeway was most concerned over the fact that the Paramedic advertisement did not run either as requested . Selectman Hanson requested that all the advertising be handled by the Personnel Assistant in the future . Joyce Mason concurred that it would be best if the Personnel Asst . handled the help-wanted advertising stating that she could not keep track of ads making the newspaper . The other issue on the agenda to be discussed was the .Personnel Assistant ' s job duties . Selectman Carter advised the assistant that he would meet with her to go over the job description and duties . Manny Glickman requested that the whole Board- be present at the time of discussion . Interviewing_ for_ Fire Depts . ' _ Administrative Secretary - -- - - - - - - - - - - - _ t.,--- - - - The PersonnelAssistant advised the Board that Chief Ridgeway requested to have the Personnel Board liaison present when interviewing for. the Adminis- trative Assistant position . The Board suggested that Leo Turo be contacted to see if he is available . Concerns of Interviewing Process Board mem bersdisouss,ed their concerns over the interviewing process comment- ing that there would be no consistency in the process in the line of ques- tions . Other concerns. were that applications were being taken out of the department . Board members asked that the Assistant put down all the con- cerns in a list for their review . Meeting adjourned at 8 : 30 p .m . - Respectfully submitted , Marilyn Farren - Personnel Assistant mf p r.