“Chuck” Emery, President
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Cell: 240-417-5774
PCEA Email: PGCPCEA@AOL.COM
Vacant Rhonda Hatton
Vice President Interim Secretary
301-335-1477
Debbie Taylor Reggie Contee
Treasurer Sergeant At Arms
301-852-0830
September Board Meeting
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Board Members Present:
Chuck Emery Debbie Taylor Lorrie Taylor Pamela Proctor
Angela Walls Barbara Porter Toni Gonzalez Bruce Jasper
Janice Gross Brian Fobbs Angela Walls Gary Taylor
Linda Oliver Robin Williams Rhonda Hatton
Board Members Excused:
None
Board Members Unexcused:
Reggie Contee Leisha Colbert Thelma Dunston Wanda Smith
Gloria Jones Harriet Berry Karen Dove
Meeting Called To
Order: 1545 hours
Minutes Accepted: Chuck Emery ask for a motion to accept the Minutes.
Motion: Barbara Porter
2nd: Pam Proctor
All Board members were in favor.
Treasury Report
Accepted: Chuck Emery ask for a motion to accept the Treasury Report.
Motion: Pam Proctor
2nd: Toni Gonzalez
All Board members were in favor.
New Business: Chuck Emery advised that we are going to accrue a lot of attorney’s fees
soon, due to all the grievances along with negotiations.
Chuck Emery advises that meningitis can only be picked up by sharing,
like a toothbrush or saliva, etc.
Debbie advises that the gym was closed at headquarters due to a
Staphylococcus “Staph” infection.
Chuck Emery advised that negotiations started again on Monday,
September 19th. Nothing can be discussed at this time and no financial
information can be released until the beginning of October.
Chuck Emery advises that the Negotiating Team is down to four (4) team
members and he would like to replace all three (3) people that
are missing from the committee. He advises that Russ Lancaster from
Communications is interested in joining the team.
Chuck Emery wanted to make some clarifications about some inquires on
Tom Yankovy. He advised that Tom was not just for Communications, he
had a lot of knowledge of the contract and retirement information.
Motion: Robin Williams made a motion to replace all three (3) team members
for the Negotiating Committee.
2nd: Bruce Jasper
All Board members in favor.
The President picks a member of the committee and he picked
Lorrie Taylor.
Chuck Emery nominated Russ Lancaster from Communications.
Other parties that are interested in being on the Negotiating Team are:
Linda Oliver, Gary Taylor, Bruce Jasper and Brian Fobbs.
Secret ballots were cast and Toni Gonzalez and Barbara Porter counted all
the ballets and the totals were as follows:
Results: Linda Oliver 11
Bruce Jasper 6
Brian Fobbs 5
Gary Taylor 3
Russ Lancaster 3
Congratulations to our new team members: Lorrie Taylor, Linda Oliver
and Bruce Jasper.
Chuck Emery for all the new committee members, the next
negotiating meeting will be next Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 1000
hours at the RMS building. The team will make sure that everyone is briefed
and brought up to date on what is current.
Upcoming Event: There will be a Chief’s Awards Ceremony on Tuesday,
October 4, 2011 at 1300 hours in the multipurpose room at Headquarters.
Chuck Emery and Debbie Taylor will not be able to attend, due to
negotiations.
Grievances: Lorrie Taylor advises that there are three (3) cases currently in Arbitration
and one at the Chief’s level.
Chuck Emery advises that the attorney, Jeff Gibbs is back as our attorney.
He had some heath issues, but has recovered and is working with us again.
Bruce Jasper advises that one of the new employees (Clerks) at District VI
hasn’t seen any dues taken out of her paycheck. He advises that he needs a
copy of the contract to distribute to Ms. Brewer.
Chuck Emery advises that there are no extra copies of the contract that can
be distributed, but we are still protected as a union under the most current
contract FY2007-2009. The contract can be found on the County website
under the Office of Human Resources Management.
Linda Oliver thanks everyone for the beautiful flower garden that was delivered to her.
Linda Oliver asked about incentives for other PCEA employees coming out to the meetings and suggested that we do a door prize drawing at each general meeting. In addition, besides briefing the members on current events, can we have several topics of discussion? Also, send out flyers to each member.
Chuck Emery asked the Board for some suggestions on what would be a good door prize? Several suggestions were made: gift card, $25.00 cash prize, $100.00 cash prize and several said they thought that there should not be any door prizes. A flyer will be sent out to the membership to come out to the meeting.
Everyone agreed to make a motion to vote on the door prize of $100.00 for each general meeting. One at 1200 hours and the other at 1730 hours.
Motion to Accept: Robin Williams
2nd: Brian Fobbs
Majority members rule in favor
Linda Oliver and Rhonda Hatton will work on getting a flyer for the next meeting.
Chuck Emery advised that the Shop Steward training will be approximately 3-4
hours and probably be from 0900-1300 hours. Dean Jones, Vice President of
FOP Lodge 89 will be conducting the training session on what your shop steward
rights are. Then Lorrie Taylor will go over other issues and follow-up and go
over the contract. Chuck says that he thinks that our biggest issue will be
timelines.
Chuck Emery asked to have someone make a motion to adjourn.
Motion to Adjourn: Robin Williams
2nd: Toni Gonzalez
All members in favor
Meeting Adjourned: 1701 hours