IT BU PC – Meeting Summary

Meeting Date/Time: 11/14/06 12:00 pm

Location: Seattle Municipal Tower (SMT), Room 4096

Attendees:

Benjamin Grossman (OIRM/ITSO-Tools), Tim Hansen (Finance), Patrick Jankanish (DNRP), Roger Kaiser (OIRM/ITSO -Net Eng), Scott MacCready (DCHS/CSD), Richard Meeks (DNRP), Behnaz Nelson (IFPTE Local 17), Mike Stewart (DCHS/CSD), Jeff Straughn (DAJD), Peg Taglianetti (OIRM/ITSO -ADSS), Charla Williams (OIRM/ITSO – ADSS).

Agenda

• · Bargaining Update
• · Information Requests
• · Next Meetings

Discussion

Bargaining Update

There was one bargaining meeting on 10/19 since the last PC meeting. Discussions in the last bargaining session were stalled when the County failed to provide counter proposals to Local 17’s proposals and the County still had not provided any responses to Local 17’s information requests. Local 17 decided not to bargain against its self and therefore did not provide counterproposals to the County’s issues. After several discussions between Local 17 and the County, it was decided to shift the bargaining format in the hopes of making more progress.

The new bargaining format will be Interest-based Bargaining (IBB). Behnaz passed out an information sheet about IBB. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) will be conducting training on IBB. All parties involved in this bargaining will be attending training sessions for IBB. Among things to be considered will be how to transition back to traditional bargaining if the IBB does not work. The following link is the FMCS web page describing IBB.

http://www.fmcs.gov/internet/itemDetail.asp?categoryID=131&itemID=15804

The IBB will cause the bargaining to take longer to complete. The current IT bargaining unit contract is due to expire by Jan. 1, 2007. However, the provisions established in the contract will hold as long as good-faith bargaining continues. The provisions for the new contract will be applied retroactively starting Jan. 1, 2007. Any monetary amounts such as merit pay would be retroactively paid back to that date.

Questions were asked about: 1) the background check issue at DAJD, 2) performance measures, and 3) NCOB (New County Office Building) status. On the background check, the Union and County have had many meetings. The County had proposed an implementation date for the proposed background questionnaire. Behnaz was able to get this date dropped for the time being. Discussions are continuing about this subject. The performance measures are being planned as part of the KingStat initiative. Behnaz said she would find out more about what was being planned. The NCOB Behnaz said was Union is having informal talks with the new building coordinators.

Information Requests

Behnaz stated that the County had not yet responded to the Union’s information requests as of the last bargaining session. The County had no responses at that time to the Union’s information requests. The County has recently provided some responses to the information requests.. Tim asked about data on the use of contractors. Behnaz said they had looked into this; but there was variability in data coming from different departments. Tim suggested that the PRB (Project Review Board) should have good data on contractors hired by the County.

Next Meetings

The bargaining will be rescheduled starting 2007. Bargaining will commence after the bargaining parties receive the IBB training. The PC meetings will start again after that.

The meeting adjourned around 1:00 pm.