3/18/1991 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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BOARD OF SELECTMEN Page MINUTES MON DAY t MARCH 18j 1991 PAP Cost of Livin Article #3 of the Annual 'down Meeting Warrant is the vote to include a Wo cost of living increase to the salary schedule of PAP employees. The Personnel. Board is l00% beh*nd the increase with the support of the Finance Committee and Kevin a.r ington. Kevin Harrington would like to continue with article #3 to maintain the c on s i stany and equity. PAP employees involve most of the depart- ment heads and supervisory staff. They should not be treated any different than other employees. e Mr. Darrington has talked with the five unions of the wage freeze and will rec i eve their answers by Friday. He will also get their input on the labor contracts expiration date. e requests all future labor~ contr cts1 expire -� . on dune 30, 1992s Selectman Lawrence is opposed to the increase in the private sector in these particular ties,, He does not want to be locked into the increase. It is a large base of where negotiations would start. Selectman Jacobson would like to decrease the level realizing there is a. problem th the steps. PAP employees should not be the only group to be cutback. Selectman Gottlieb agrees that one group should not be singled out. He suggests the Board consider this 'n tandem with the union notifications on F i ay. Diane Rommelmeyer made note of the step increases in all urians and the PAP plan is no different than any other union. Mr. Harrington is trying to continue with the program and make the cuts. Selectman Lawrence Feels this is not the answer. There will e no one to run the system with the decreased siz 1 w governments A suggestion was made by George Costa to adopt the cost of living increase when people have maxed their top stops instead of giving both cost of living increases and step increases. The motion was made by Selectman Gottlieb to continue to work on the collective bargaining and vote on April. 1.9 1991. to execute the warrant. The motion was seconded by Selectman Lawrence, The vote is unanimous with the Board. To wait until. April lo 1991 to execute the warrant would give the process a. chance to be worked out over the next few weeks. Selectman Gottlieb does not want to send a, wrote signal to the unions, If the unions approve the voluntary wage freeze, the schools should also be included. Warrant Articles for Discussion; Article #3 and Article #4 will be deferred until April 1 1991. Article #8 and Article #9 involve the engineering services and the environmental monitoring of the Summerwood/Ashers Path area associated with groundwater contaminations The fee from Wesson and Sampson is $100, 000 in engineering costs of the 21E process of the hazardous waste plume. A cost of $127, 00