HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-2-21Minutes for February 21, 2013, adopted and released April 23
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Finance Committee
Joint Executive Session
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Commissioners: Matthew Mulcahy (Chair), Tim Soverino (Vice - chair), John Tiffany, Christy KiciGG nam, W_ rar
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EXECUTIVE SESSION MINUTES
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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4 Fairgrounds Road, Training Room — 4:00 p.m. �y
Called to order at 4:05 p.m.
Staff in attendance: Libby Gibson, Town Manager; Gregg Tivnan; Assistant Town Manager; l e
Larivee, Finance Director; Martin Anguelov, Budget Analyst; William Pittman, Chief
of Police, Pam Meriam, Director of Human Service; Mark McDougall, Fire Chief;
Rachel Chretien, Administrator Our Island Home; Teny Norton, Town Minutes Taker
Attending Members: Mulcahy, Soverino, Kickham, Williams, Fee, Lindner, Kelly
Board of Selectmen: Patty Roggeveen (chair), Bob DeCosta (vice - chair), Rick Atherton
Town Counsel: Jack Dolan, Labor Counsel, Kopelman & Paige PC
Documents used: Powerpoint®
1. DISCUSS STRATEGY WI rH RESPECT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAIN
Gibson — Introduced Labor Counsel Jack Dolan and review purpose of meeting.
Dolan — PowerPoint basic introduction to public sector collective bargaining and specific strategies for
bargaining in Nantucket, National Labor Relations Act 1935; First public sector bargaining law Wisconsin
1959; Current status nationally; Distinction between public and private sector bargaining- market discipline
less operable in the public sector, less managerial cohesion in the public sector, politics - voters consist of 3
overlapping groups; basic rights of Massachusetts public sector employees under c.150E; Basic collective
bargaining obligations of parties — meet at reasonable times, negotiate in good faith, obligations do not
require either party to agree to a proposal or make a concession; Key practices for public employers to avoid
— refusing to negotiate, direct dealing with employees, conditioning bargaining on some other outcome,
failing to support an agreement, mailing or delaying to furnish requested information, making unilateral
changes, bargaining regressively; Consequences of not reaching agreement — no strikes and no unilateral
changes in terms of conditions of employment, personnel other than police and fire, police and fire
personnel through Joint Labor Management Committee (JLMC); Guidelines for JLMC in interest
arbitration; Overview of the bargaining process from a Town's perspective — meet with financial team to
assess financial parameters, develop overall strategy, initial bargaining session to set ground rules, change
proposals and respond to request for information, consider all proposals and attempt to find common ground
where appropriate, reach tentative agreement, selectmen ratify tentative agreement and present/support cost
items at Town Meeting.
Tivnan — Town of Nantucket Current Labor Relations Strategy: Overall collective bargaining goals —
establish a more professional approach to bargaining, create uniform contract language, decrease the overall
cost of contracts, slow the rate of growth of compensation, create contract equity, on -going education and
outreach process.
Discussion about what constitutes unfair labor practices, goals of bargaining teams, bargaining tactics, and
consideration of OPEB liabilities.
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Tivnau — Do not yet have the signed MOA. Reviewed cost and wage analyses.
McDougall — Review of basic contents of MOA.
Discussion about fire fighters who commute from off island.
Motion to Leave Executive Session. (Williams) seconded
Roll -call: Kelly, Fee, Williams, Lindner, Soverino, Mulcahy
Submitted by:
Terry L. Norton
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