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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975-08-21 CSB MINUTESr PRESENT: ABSE NT: ALS O PRESENT: //u MINUT ES BOARD OF CAREER SERVI CE COMMISSIO NERS Au gust 21, 1975 H.R. Hosanna, Charle s Zartman , William Hanson Jo Ellen Turne r None Richard Lori g, Jer ald Vaughn, Richard Welbourn e, Robert Hall, Larry Leydon, Stan Johns8n, Warren Rahn, William James , Karl Nollenberger, Albert Medina, Petra Med ina, Allan Stanley Rev. Hosanna called the meeti ng to o rder at 7:00 p.m. The Board immediately went into executive session to discuss the ir decision on the Police Impasse hearing . All those present were asked to leave the room. Aft er re-ope ning the meeting, Rev. Hosanna rendered the followin g dec ision: 1. The 5% salary increas e reque sted by the EP BA for January 1 , 1976 is denied, and we recommend that the nego tiations be re-opened February 1, 1976, with salary and bene fit increases to be imp- lemented April 1, 197 6 . It is understo od that the amou nt of tot,al compensation will be dependent up on a survey of four metropolitan area citi es and the analysis of the financ ial condition of the City as des cribed in the City's contract pro- posal dated June 17, 1 975 . 2. Re tirement Benefits: Any pol ice officer who has both attained the age of 55 years and comp leted 20 years of active ser vice in any police department in the State of Colorado, or who has completed 25 years in any such department regardles s of age, shall be eligible for a monthly pension based on th e average mo nthly salary in the year next preceding retirement. The monthly pension shall be equal to 2~% of the officers aver age monthly salary for eac h of the first 20 years of service plus 1% of such salary for each year in excess of 20 years, up to a maximum of 35 years of service or 65% of salary pens ion benefit. Severence Benefits: If a po lice officer terminates emplo ym ent prior to being eligibl e for retirement ben~fits, the offi cer will be entitled to the fol lowing : a.) With less than 5 years of service -Refund of all mem ber's contributions to the Police Pensio n Fund after th e effective date of the agreement. 210 ... ~·· ' .. b.) With 5 or more years of service -Member may .elect either (i) or (11) as follows: (i) To receive a refund of his contributions to the Police Pension Fund after the effective date of this agreement, or (ii) To retain his accrued pension benefits based on his service and salary prior to termination and payable beginning at age 55. City Contributions: The City's contribution rate will increase from 5% to 8.05% of police officer's pay. 3. 1% additional fringe benefits will be implemented as follows: A. Sick leave will be extended .in usage to include not only personal sickness, and doctors and dentist appointments, but sickness in the immediate family (defined as spouse and employee's children) when the employee's absence from work is necessary. Regulations governing personal sick leave are applicable to this extension. B. Funeral leave will be extended to cover employee's and spouse's grandparents and grandchildren in addition to those already specifically delineated. C. New Years Eve would be added for the year 1976 and thereafter as an additional paid holiday. D. The current maternity leave provision will be deleted and substituted with one which allows the employee to return to their position within four weeks from the date on which their leave commences. The maternity leave will be considered a leave of absence without pay with the employee having the option of using their accrued annual leave. Normal leave provisions will pertain. E. Insurance Benefits 1. Life insurance will be increased from the present $11,08 0 for every employee to $20,000for every employee. Th e same conversion priveleges upon retirement of 50% coverage payable by the employee will continue. The AD&D provision will also be increased from $11,000 to ~20,000 for every employee. 2. Dental Health. a.) Dental health insurance will be altered to add orthodontia on children 5 to 19 years on a 50% coverage $100 deductable per case (this is a one-time benefit per child wi~h a $1,000 maximum). b.) The maximum per year per person will be increased to $1,000 from the current $750. 3. Basic Health insurance will be altered to c o ve r p regnan cy on single females and also males who will be limi ted to receive payment for one pregnancy per year ordered by a court of law. 4. Major medical insurance will be increased to include pregnancy which presently is an exclusion. ·5. Those retirees under the City of Englewood heal th insuranc e plan on a direct pay basis and future reti rees of the City will be covered at City cost for their indivi dua l health insurance coverage. The City will not contribu t e toward s the dependency coverage but the retiree rema i ns e ligible to carry that coverage on a direct pay basi s . The Board requested that a recommendation be sent t o Cit y Council suggesting that a committee be formed to study the Po lice Pension Fund to find ways to improve the equity of the fund. Mr. Hosanna stated that the final recourse of the Po l ice Benefit Association was to take their proposal to a vote of t h e pe ople. Their decision to do this must be rendered in 30 days fr om the date of the decision of the Career Service Board. * * * * MR. HANSON MOVED, AND MRS. TURNER SECONDED, TO APPR OVE THE MI NUTES OF THE MEETING OF JULY 17, 1975. Ayes: Nays: Hosanna, Hanson, Turner, Zartman None The motion carried. * * * * Rev. Hosanna and the other board members expressed thc!r re~r et over the resignation of Board member Charles Zartman. Rev. Hos a n na told Dr. Zartman that his efforts and service had b een much appreciated by the Board and by the City staff. * * * * The Board had expected to set a hearing date for the ~riP.va nc es of Mary Howard, but did not due to the fact that n e i ther Mrs. Howard nor her attorney were present. The Board r equest .d t..c:ct a communication be sent t o J ohn Criswell, attorney for ~~rs. How e r ;·' requesting that he inform us of available dates fo r such a hea r in~ * * * * 212 ~---~- The next item on the agenda was to set a hearing d ate fo r the Board to decide the issue of o ver -time payment to the Firefighters. It was decided that the matter would be heard at the next regular meeting of the Career Service Board on September 18, 1975. * * * * The Board received three appe a ls to the Sergeant examination that had been given recently. The ap pellants were John Wing , Richard Welbourne and Larry Leydon. Mr. Welbourne told the Board that his reasons for a p pealing t he exam were that Mr. Kramer was on both the oral Board for Detective and the one for Ser g eant. He felt tha t a previous impression had be en formed by Mr. Kramer and that he wa s therefore not given an unbia sed exam. He als o did not think that l e tters of reprimand sho uld b e included i n t he b iography of each a pp licant that is g iven to the oral board and, lastly, felt tha t he had been questioned unfairl y when asked who had been the r e c i pie nt of the "Officer of the Year" award for which he had been n om i na ted . Mr. Leydon's concern was primarily that he had submitted que s ti ons to be reviewed on the written por ti o n of th e exam but had not b e e n able to attend the meeting where t h e test was discussed with its author. He felt that, if he had be en given the opportunit y t o state his view s on the q uestio n s , p erhaps he would have t e en abl e to convinc e the author of the exam that his answer s were i n corr ect . Also, he felt the questions tha t were elimin a ted we re done so arbi - trarily. He stated that if n o ne of the questions were e l iminat ed, he would have placed second on t he eligibility list. Lastly, Mr. Leydon stated that his views on t he correct answ e rs to som e of the questi o ns were differen t t hat those of the author of the ex am , even though he was quoting t h e same book, page and parag ra ph a s hi s source of information. Mr. Wing was not present to d is c us s his appeal, but th e Board went over it, discussing some of t he poi n ts with Mr. Welbourn e a nd others who were present and famili ar wi t h his point of vi e w on t he ex am . The Board decided to conduct an in formal investigati o n, l i s t en i n g to the tapes of the orals, etc. a n d to render a decision a t a sp ecia l meeting to be set sometime b e fore th e meeting in September . The Board discussed the possi bil it y of changing the phrase "letter of reprimand" to ''let ter of instruction" o n the bio g ra..i:.1".1 Ll_'.:. given to the oral board mem ber s o n each of the a p p lic a nts . A decision i s to be made lat er on the matter. * * * * 213 Under employee associati ons' c hoice, Lt . Robert Hal l of t he EPBA thanked the Board for the time spent in deciding the fa t e of the Police Impasse regarding t he Memorandum of Understand ing . The Fire Department ha d nothi ng to d i scus s and non -e m er ~e ncy employ e es were not re pres ented . * * * * Under Commissioners' Cho ic e , Mr. Han son ag ain than ked Chu ck Zartman f or his generous servic e to the Care er Se rvice Boar d. * * * * Mr . Lorig discussed wi th t h e Board t he t hree reque sts fo r exten s ion o f probationary perio ds whi c h he ha d rece ived from variou s department heads. MR. HANSON MOVED, AND MRS. TU RNER SECONDE D, TO APPR OVE THE EXTENSIONS OF PROBATION REQUESTED. Ayes: Hosa n na , Ha nson, Tu rner, Zartman Nays: None The motion carri e d. \ * * * * MR. HANSON MOVED, AND DF. ~A R TMAN SECO NDED , TO DELAY APPR OVA L OF THE ELIGIBILITY LIST FOR ~HE PO SITI ON OF SE RGEA NT I N THE PO LI CE DEPARTMENT UNTIL A DECI S ION IS RENDE RED REG ARDI NG TH; PPP EALS TO THE TEST, BUT TO CER TIFY TH E SU BMIT TED LIS T FOR THE POSI TI TI ON OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATO R . Ayes: Hos arna , Ha ns on, Turn e r , Zartman Nays: Non e The motion carried. * * * * DR. ZARTMAN MOVED, AND MR. HA NSON SECO NDED , TO APPROVE TH E FOLLOWING PERSONNEL ACTIO NS: NAMES Promotions: BECKER, Arlen BOH, El.den BOSTON, Ronald BR AUNREITER, Donald COX, Lloyd CROUCH, Bill DEP T . & TITLE Firefighter t o Driv er/Opr /En g. ef f e ctiv e 8/1/75 - Lieu t e nant to Capt ain - F ir e ef f e c tiv e 8/1/75 Li e utenant to Cap tain -Fir e effective 8/1/7 5 l .j_e utenant t o Batt alion Chi ef eff e ct ive 7/16 /75 GRAD E &: 9T ~n Driv e r/Opr/Eng . to Lieutena n t - F i re effective 8/1/7 5 Driv e r /Opr/Eng . t o Lieutena n t -Fir e e f f ec tive 8/1/7 5 ~~~~~tl:-:'.!·~ .. ;• ···:·.·;<.'~I:·! ;I''! ~.'' ~· j \ · ~ : ; I i I 1 DONALD, Bruce i, I ' GOUGH, Wallace ' HALL, Robert KAPAUN, Paul 'I f ~ New employees: CARR, Willis EDISON, Richard ELDER, Vernon FORINGTON, Clayton NORDEN, Ronald Anni~ersary Increases: BARBER, Mark CUTHRIELL, David GOSSELINK, Kenneth JOHANNISSON, Eric KOESTNER, Leioma REID, Jack SCHUTZ, Alan K SIMPSON, Larry SUMMERS, Kathleen TRAVIS, Albert Battalion Chie f to Battalion Chief /Administration effective 8/1/75 Driver/Opr/Engineer effective 7/16/75 Acting Lieutenant to Lieutenant -Fire effective 6/20/75 Engineering Aide III to Acting Field Engineer effective 5/15/75 Ditch Rider -Water Prod. effective 7/16/75 Firefighter 4th Class effective 7/3/75 Emergency Communicator effective 8/18/75 Police Officer 4thCClass effective 7/1/75 Maintenanceman -Traffic effective 6/17/75 Planning Draftsman effective 7/16/75 Polic e Officer 3rd Class Police Officer 2nd Class effective 9/17/75 Maintenanceman -Traffic effective 9/I/75 Revenue Chief -Finance effective 9/1/75 Circulation Librarian effective 9/1/75 Superintendant -Sewer effective 7/1/75 Police Officer 3rd Class Police Officer 2nd Class effective 9/1/75 Police Officer 3rd Class Police Officer 2nd Class effective 9/1/75 Emergency Communicator effective 9/1/75 Di tch Rider -Water Prod. effective 9/1/75 to to to 214 3A 4A 2A 4D to 4E 2B to 2C 9B to 9C 7D to 7E lOD to lOE 4B tc 4 C 3E to 3F , ' WEBSTER, Eden Clerk Steno -Co d e Enf. effective 9/1/75 WEBSTER, Wendy Intermediate Clerk Typist effective 9/16/75 YOUNG, Barbara Planning Assistant effective 8/1/75 Terminations: GREEN, Judy Emergency Communicator effective 7/11/75 SISK, Herbert Maintenanceman/Apprentice effective 7/29/75 Probationary to perm. status without increase in pay: JOHNSON, Stanley MCKAY, Louis MORROW, Rodger Lieutenant -Fire effective 9/3/75 Driver/Opr/Engineer -Fire effective 9/3/75 Lieutenant -Fire effective 9/3/75 -Libr. Opr. STANTON, Merle Maintenance Mechanic -Sewer effective 8/1/75 Progress Reports: Ray Hinkle Clifford Morgan Kenneth Shattuck Jack Holtz William Belt George Heimbigner Betty Culp Water Dist . Water Dist. Water Dist. Sewer Police Fire Finance Ayes: Hosanna, Hanson, Turner, Zartman Nays: None The motion carried. * * * * 2B to 2C lC to lD 6E to 6F There being no further business t o discuss, the meetin g was adjour ~ed HERBERT R. HOSANNA Chairman * * * * ~&4lJqM df ENDA J. RETT Recording Secretary 215