CPSA, General Meeting: Minutes
Date and Time: Wed. April 20th 2005 5:15pm
Location: Chiefs Conference Room
Attending:
Board Members:
Cheryl Marden - President
Renee Anderson - Vice President
Julie Ceccato - Secretary/Treasurer
Sue Bennett - CSO, Member at Large
Cheryl Howard - ACO, Member at Large
Union representative:
Steve Allen
General membership:
Lei Upton, Shannon Chewey, Chellie Finkbiner, Wendy Gebicke, Kathy Wintroath, Roxanne Wells, Sheri Marshall, Nancy Wilson, Daphanie Burnham, Sherrie Bergstedt, Traci Williams and Denise Dominguez.
Working unable to attend:
Jaclyn Kaps and Caroline Parrott.
Topics:
Minutes from the Board meeting were read to membership.
Sheri Marshall motioned to accept the minutes of the meeting.
Renee Anderson 2nd.
Membership accepted minutes.
Treasure report read. Current account balance $22147.97
Sheri Marshall motioned to accept the treasure minutes.
Wendy Gebicke 2nd.
Membership accepted the report.
Correspondence - web communications:
All members were asked to visit the CPSA web site. www.Chicopsa.com, Cheryl has done a nice job. The web site has photos, current information about negotiations with the city, meetings and other important information for union members. It is an easy way to keep informed.
Old Business:
Re-openers update:
Steve, advised the city has rejected the holiday time bank. They have however accepted the shift differential. Swing shift 3% and Graveyard at 6%.
The City advised they would only consider the holiday issue if we (CPSA) would agree to
re-negotiate our salary formula.
Steve will present a counter offer with the STO concept. He will request the city provide the additional hours to our holiday time bank in the form of STO. This concept will allow employees to have the additional hours however there will be some restrictions as to how those hours can be used. One of the restrictions is no pay out for unused hours.
Steve will keep the members of the negations team advised.
Side letter for CSO's 3-121/2 schedule:
Lt. MacPhail was assigned the task of writing the side letter for the CSO?s to work the 121/2 hr shift. Unknown how the process is going, Cheryl will check in with Lt. McPhail.
Dispatch supervisors 121/2 hr shift was not approved by by the City due to the new union.
Cheryl suggested dispatch apply as a unit to the City for 121/2 hr shifts after FLSA exemption received.
Motion made by Wendy Gebicke.
2nd by Julie Ceccato
Motion passed: Unanimous .
Hopefully the letter of approval move quickly. Once the letter of approval is received dispatch supervisors will adjust to 121/2 hr shifts. Dispatch will still need to increase staffing before it is readdressed.
Dues deductions by the city:
The city made an error in our union dues deductions. The next payroll period you will notice extra dues removed to make up for the difference in the error.
Health insurance:
When we were CPOA- B unit Sue Bennett was on the health committee. We have not received any recent updates. The board will look into this and advise when the next meeting will be held.
New Business:
Standing rules:
The board requesting some standing rules be added to the bylaws.
Board recommended a $500.00 spending limit be made. Any spending over $500.00 will need the approval of the membership. General membership agreed.
Determining 'voting membership': Board recommended all members who pay the full membership fee, will be voting members. Currently all members pay the full price regardless of FT or PT status. General membership agreed.
Method/timing of elections for Board: Board recommended we keep the bylaws as they are which were copied from CPOA. General membership agreed.
Unpaid dues:
Board recommended all members who are on unpaid leave be given a 30day notice prior to being dropped from the membership. General membership agreed.
Charitable Donations/Fund raising:
We had a discussion regarding charitable donations. At this time our unit has nothing set up to earn money. Most of the requests for donation will be denied at this point until we come up with ways to earn money. A donation fund raiser committee was requested. Lei Upton and Daphanie Burnham volunteered to head the committee.
Re-hire rules - Seniority per PERR's:
Information was provided to the general membership regarding seniority. PERR's.
CPSA service for employees:
Safety issues/Working conditions:
General membership was reminded our union CPSA is now responsible for working conditions and wages. We need to stay educated and aware of what is going on within our units. If you have a working condition you feel is unsafe, remember to bring your issues to CPSA board. Information you provide to the board will also be forward to our union representative Steve Allen.
CPSA would like to create a new hire employee packet. This packet would provide new employees with services and benefits provided by the union. Board will work towards building a packet with this information.
Round Table:
General membership was asked to share any concerns to the group. Everyone was very positive with their comments regarding how far along the union has come.
Steve addressed the group and made several recommendations. He recommended we look into educating our board. PORAC provides many different classes regarding running a union and negotiating for good wages. He also recommended we look into having one of the lawyers from the group he works with come and speak to our group, with regard to employee rights.
The Board agreed to look into both of those recommendations.
Adjournment:
Door prize was awarded to Wendy Gebicke. (Starbucks coffee card)
Meeting adjourned 6:55 pm.
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