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i Personnel Board Minutes Page 2 Meeting of March 5 , 1990 PositionofData Processing Coordinator , cont . Leo Turo pointed out that , you have to have confidentiality in the Personnel office . - With regard to the issue of software , Kevin Harrington asked what the Board recommended . .Leo Turo mentioned that Lotus .. L, II , or III is the best in the country as it is 'IBM compatible and compatible with any other computer . Meeting With Town Employees In attendance at this meeting were : Margaret Carmichael , June Daley , Diane Rommelmeyer , Paul Sommerville , Helene Defoe , Lynn Waterman , Diane Lund , Bob Connell , Joyce Mason , Deborah Costa and Amy Mosley (arriving towards the end of the meeting ) . The employees. .met. with the Board expressing concern over the 'step increase and cost of living increases for next fiscal year . Chairman Sullivan started off the meeting by advising the employees that the Finance Committee indicated they will not know anything about the revenue until after the first of the month . Paul Sommerville told the Board that when Jeff Nutting was here , there were suggestions made at the Board of Selectmen ' s meeting about a 4% maximum in- crease : He said that itstruck a cord and they didn ' t like the scenario . Chairman Sullivan passed out a copy of a memo from Jeff Nutting relative to the Board of Selectmen ' s vote of a maximum salary increase of 4% (either step or cost of living ) . Paul Sommerville said that the general opinion,. is that the Personnel Board has done a good job . They realize that they are not in a union ; however , in the past they have been treated the same as union employees and they hope it will continue . He said that they see a year with three unions coming in for negotiations . ..They hope that they will not be forgotten in the process and that the equitable treatment will continue . Paul went on to say that the employees feel thattheP . A . P . is their contract . They were hired under it . Language intheplan refers to step increases . Paul asked the Board what exactly a step increase meant - a merit ,raise or something -that separates them from other employees? Chairman Sullivan told the employees that the Selectmen wanted the Personnel Board to get a .merit program together for the P . A . P . employees (which they did ) . He said that at one time the only thing employees were getting was a cost of living increase . Bob said that he put something together and then the M .M .A . was hired to do a review of the salaries . However , in answer to Paul ' s question';,; . Chairman Sullivan said that the step program is a merit for good people starting on the bottom andworking up.. Chairman Sullivan said that they got out of control because of evaluations . The union people were getting a step without the evaluation . Evaluations . were not signed and employees had not seen the evaluation . - Paul Somerville said that they are looking at either a step or cost of living but they don ' t feel they can be lumped together . He reviewed the fact that 39 employees out of 49 . employeeslare not at the top step . He said that if there is no, cost of living , they won ' t receive anything and he does not think you can lump 'the step program with the cost of living .