Union / Management Meeting 12/28/2018
Present: Paul, Jesseca, LeNora, Jared, Kooper (Council Union Rep)
Paul met
with Metro Management Council
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Discussed
being a standalone agency and sustainability
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Challenges
going forward
§ Health Insurance
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Smaller
pool
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High
deductible plans
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Health
insurance is part of recruitment / retention
§ Financially
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Can Metro afford to standalone
§ Redundancy – do not have these areas
covered
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Human
Resources
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IT
o
Went
Standalone with intention of regionalization
o
Is
it still practical and fiscal
When we went
standalone – City Attorney had said that it was illegal to go under city insurance
Metro
Council – city/county will look into ways to handle the above challenges and
check legality of shared resources for insurance, HR, IT. What other resources can be shared? What are pros / cons of being standalone,
going under city, going under county?
The will be holding off on picking a director until some of these issues
can be addressed hopefully in next couple of weeks.
During the
time without a director – hopefully short
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Jesseca
will be interim director – day to day operations
·
Michelle
Boyd will be executive coordinator /liaison
for Metro
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Zurker
issues – she has already been helping w/ that
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Building
issues – she has experience building 2 jails and working w/ architects
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If
Jess has questions she has someone to go to
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Vacation
time
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Jesseca
has been thru first 2 weeks of January
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Tim
Schleis will be helping work on vacation spots starting in 3rd week
in January
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If
you have vacation time send Jesseca an email with dates - they are working on different ways to get
time covered. Including temp employees,
management, recruits independent days, and another other ways possible
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Need
to communicate vacation needs - If you have something priority that requires purchase let Jesseca now. Jesseca is very dedicated in getting it covered and is working hard.
(With that being said, please let Jared know if you any Vacation Shift Bid is turned down - Jared and Kooper would like to look at it. - Jared)
New hires
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Posting
closed yesterday
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Changes
to process
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Additions
to written test to include some multi-tasking
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No
longer doing BPads added a phone interview (not permanent change trying it
out)
o
Citizens
Academy is now a requirement
