10/28/1985 PERSONNEL BOARD Minutes

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PERSONNEL BOARD • MINUTES OF OCTOBER 28, 1985 MASHPEE TOWNHALL The following members of the Personnel Board were present: Chairman Robert W. Sullivan, Caroline M. Gilligan, Manuel Glickman, Carrie Saunders and C. .Ben Lofchie. Also present at tonight's meeting were: Selectman Hanson, Selectwoman Thomas and Selectman Terry, Doug Boyd, Chief Hartin, Leonore Anderson (left early), Tom Fudala, Verne Polka, Chief Frye, Deputy Chief Cooper, Joyce Mason, Pam Davis, Carol Kohr and Ernie Virgilio as well as M.M.A. Consultants, Anita Tekle and Mike Smith. Chairman Sullivan convened the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Carrie Saunders made reference to two recent newspaper articles commenting that she was sensitive to comments that directly reflect actions of the Personnel Board. She quotted a statement in the article made by Selectwoman Thomas which said "really and truly a lot of things fell through the cracks here" with reference to the M.M.A. study. Carrie commented that Selectwoman Thomas appeared before the Personnel Board represent- ing the Board of Selectmen,.when the Board reviewed the study. Selectwoman Thomas commented that when she was present at the meeting she was not repre- senting the Board. She went on to say that when she was representing the Selectmen she would say to the Personnel Board that the Selectmen have opted her to represent them and , • sheowas at'nthe-meeting as a Board member. When she said that a lot of things fell through the cracks, the only thing addressed that night was salaries and such,as the entire plan was not addressed. ' She said that in listening to town personnel, in that a few were not interviewed and their job descriptions were not updated, this did not mean to say that the Personnel Board did it. She said that she was saying that the M.M.A. was remiss and that a lot of things did fall through the cracks when they didn't get an updated job description and they did not interview people. She said that it would make a difference in some of their comparable salaries and job descriptions of where they placed some, of the people. Carrie Saunders commented that at the meeting where the Personnel Board yielded nurmer- ous questions to.lthe consultants who did the study and raised concerns about salaries and all kinds of things, we are concerned that youcdid not mention those things. Selectwoman Thomas said that there has been no Board of Selectmen vote taken on any part of the plan and that they listened to thetownemployees. She said that any comments she made was not to deflect from what the Personnel Board is doing. She said that some of the statements which were not in the report was in protection of what the Personnel Board is trying to do. Her comments are to the M.M.A. people. Chairman Sullivan asked if all present had a copy of the proposal prepared by the Town Accountant. Chairman Sullivan said that he assumed that the input came from everybody. The Town Accountant, Verne Polka, said that the input came from each employee and that she merely prepared the report. Chairman Sullivan said that he made out a breakdown showing percentages of the dollar amount which the Board would like to address. • Nonie Anderson commented that the proposal prepared,by the Town Accountant and the per- centage schedule did not include the Board of Health positions. Verne Polka said that the reason for that was because the Board of Health has chosen to remove the Health Agent and the Assistant Health Agent from the P.A.P.