05/21/1990 PERSONNEL BOARD Minutes

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PERSONNEL BOARD ` r MEETING OF MAY 21 , 1990 MASHPEE TOWS,` HALL The following members of the Mashpee Personnel Board were present : Chairman Robert W. Sullivan , C . Ben .Lofchie , Manuel Glickman and Jane Stockbridge . . Chairman Sullivan convened the meeting at 6 : 05 p .m . Personnel Minutes of April 30 C. Ben Lofchie moved to accept the Personnel Board ' s minutes of April 30 . Jane Stockbridge seconded the motion . All in favor . Annual Evaluations The Board reviewed the annual performance evaluations of Robert Sherman , Conservation Agent ; Paul Somerville , Shellfish Constable ; and Lynn Traudt , Assistant Assessor . Based upon a favorable review, Ben Lofchie moved to accept the evaluations of Robert Sherman , - Conservation Agent and Paul Somerville , Shellfish .Constable , for a step increase 'to .be effective on the employee ' s anniversary date of hire . Jane - Stockbridge seconded the motion . All in favor . Jane Stockbridge moved to accept the evaluation of Lynn Traudt , Assistant Assessor .. Manuel Glickman seconded the motion . Ben Lofchie ab- stained . All other members were in favor . Memo from Executive Secretary re : Harbormaster Memo The Board reviewed a memo dated May 7 from Kevin Harrington , Executive Secre- tary, relative to a memo from the Harbormaster dated April 30 concerning the establishment of a waterways Administrator . In his memo , . Kevin states that he is troubled not with the content of the memo , but with the assumption that the Personnel Board would consider budgeting ramifications as justifica- tion of a decision to recommend or not a course of action . He stated that the Personnel Board should be concerned more with the potential position , its job responsibilities , authority , reporting requirements , etc . Chairman Sullivan advised the Board that he responded to Kevin Harrington ' s memo with a memo clarifying the' Personnel Board ' s discussion with Selectman Gottleib (along with a copy of the Personnel Board ' s minutes of the meeting ) . Chairman Sullivan commented that when Selectman Gottleib. met with the Person- nel Board , he was asking for the help of the Board and for them to back the article . The Board had no way of knowing what the grade and step was or what assistants they were looking at . Manny Glickman recalled that the only reason the Board came into discussion with the numbers was Selectman Gottleib asked them . He commented that in order to "back a program , they have to know numbers so that they understand . Ben commented that Kevin is asking if the Board is concerned with budgetting . . Manny said that they discussed it for the grade and step . Chairman Sullivan commented that it is the Board ' s responsibility to do comparable studies . Jane Stockbridge commented that the reason why the finance came into the dis- cussion is that they are proposing it because it costs less .