09/10/1984 PERSONNEL BOARD Minutes

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Personnel Board Minutes of September 10, 1984 page 2 # !r w with Tendy Rubin, coat.Weeting aroline Gilligan rade reference to the interviewing process. Wendy said that the Board had agreed to have her do the'interviews.for the lifeguards; however, she felt that a back-up system should be in effect. Deference was made to the firing of Theresa Gomes with Wendy commenting that she did verbal check on employment background but that she had falsified information on the application whih4was not picked up at the time. She agreed that the Personnel secretary should be assisting her~ in the background cheek. Wendy- com- mented that she is now keeping a disciplinary log on all employees in her department. With reference to the response on the advertising for the position of Recreation Aide, Wendy said that there were nine applicants for the position. The Board asked that she choose the most qualified to be interviewed. Wendy made reference to the Parr & Recreation Committee F's concerns of lifeguards leaving early to go back to school as they felt they should not be hired back next season. Carrie Saunders, suggested that when filling the positions that she concentrate on a mixed bag by looking at colleges the kids are at and selecting out different admissions. Wendy was asked why the Town of Mashpee does not get a tremendous response from individuals to be lifeguards. Trendy said that the pay is a problem {about 25 cents lower than Falmouth) and that the Town of Falmouth is more attractive in that the lifeguards look to see where the girls are. She also mentioned that the' Town of Mashpee has also had a problem with one of its beaches -- co m nting that hiring individuals to work specific beaches would be a way of eliminating that. NOTE: The Board asked that the lifeguard pay be looked at more closely. Wendy also suggested hiring three head lifeguards for each of the beaches in order to elimin- ate pay differential. 0 eference was made by Wendy to her job description commenting that the title was not clean as it reams "Park and recreation Department" and -the town by-law calls her a "Recreation ' Director" with responsibilities to 'include parks, beaches (not responsible for clean u . She said that she would want to maintain input in planning and developing of parks; however, instead of being responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of grounds, she would life to see the job description changed to "oversee the maintenance". Manny Glickman suggested ` that a meeting be' set up with Ernie and Wendy along -with the Personnel Board to discuss both job descriptions. Ben Eofchie agreed to look at both job descriptions a it may say differ- ent in -Public works Director's job description. Wendy said that she was submitting an article for town meeting to change her title to "Park and Recreation Director" and that she was in favor~ of meeting with Ernie and the Board. Wendy said that she had recreation Department information and the set up of other towns. Manny asked to review it commenting that it might help the Board make decisions of any con- flicts which may arise. Manny asked Wendy if she thought the John's Pond area t , be a rough area? Wendy said that it was passive recreation in terms of activities. She said that she had spent a -day there and there were mostly Coast Guard families that used the pond and that there were no problems as yet_ Request of Earle Mar;sters The secretary told ,the Board that she had received a request from Earle Marsters, a Planning Board. member and- a land developer in town, to review Town Planner applications or to obtain list of names and addresses of applicants as he is planning- to hire a Town Planner for his rganiation. The Board felt that passing on information of applicants may run into a legal problem; but that if town counsel approved they would agree to write to candidates telling them that a position has openned up in private industry.