04/30/1982 PERSONNEL BOARD Minutes

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MINUTES OF PERSONNEL BOARD FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1982 . The following members of the Personnel Board were present for this special meeting: Robert Sullivan, Chairman, Caroline M. Gilligan, Curtis Woodbury and John Peters. Selectwoman Thomas also attended the meeting. The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. This meeting was held in order to discuss the article in which the Personnel Board has submitted for town meeting on job descriptions falling under the Personnel Administration Plan as well as the rates of pay. At this point, the Board reviewed an example of salary ranges showing a low, medium and maximum range for the different positions under the Personnel Ad- ministration Plan which was prepared by Selectwoman Thomas. Selectwoman Thomas explained that once the article is adopted the town would be locked into salaries and job descriptions. 'There is no low, medium or maxi- mum salary range and it could be costly. She suggested that in order to give flexibility there should be some provision to bring people in at different levels. She further explained that the job descriptions become a legal package once accepted. Bob asked if the job descriptions could be updated after being accepted. Selectwoman Thomas replied that the job descriptions would be legal documents and that the duty factors would not be able to be changed. She explained that • when a vacancy occurred, then you could update the job descriptions or change them accordingly. Otherwise, an article would have to go before town meeting to have them amended. Bob commented that you might be locked in if you put steps in. Caroline referred to the 6% increase in the budget. She said if we postponed the article, it would give the Board more time for study. Curtis asked if the 6% went through and they went to special town meeting in the fall and came up with something similar, .(referring to the example on salary ranges) could the positions go into steps? And Caroline asked who would make the decision on the steps: Selectwoman Thomas commented that by having steps, individuals could be placed into a starting point by the Board. Caroline made reference to her past work experience as always having a starting salary. She said that it deserves more study. Bob stated that the study would take a long time. Selectwoman Thomas suggested that the article placed in the warrant by the Personnel Board be indefinitely postponed as some of the salaries are not in line as some ex- ceed and some are low.