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MINUTES: Thursday, February 12, 2001

LSA Meeting Minutes: Monday, February 12, 2001, 2:00pm, room N410

 8 Staff members in attendance. A Quorum is 24.

 

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Wendell Pryor, Executive Director of CAPE

• CAPE is undergoing a reorganization
  • 1. Board is emphasizing accountability & customer service
    • Centralized
  • 2. Overhaul of technology and database
    • Migrated from Unix to Windows
  • 3. Continuing education & lifelong learning
    • Fund available for members for education and training
• April 6 - CAPE day at the Capitol
  • Breakfast for the legislators
  • Lunch at the public library on the corner
• Salary Survey
  • The salary survey will automatically go into effect unless legislation delays it
  • Step increases will end August, 2001
• Senate Bill 176
  • Provision that if you are designated as one of the "Millenium Institutions" they can conduct their own salary survey.
  • CAPE believes this is illegal and oppose it
• November election
  • Budget crunch resulted due to Amendment 23
  • If transportation is hit, governor will hit capital construction? - higher ed
  • Democrats now control the Senate
  • Stalemate - not much will get done other than the big issues
• Senate Bill 72 - CAPE's version of incentive program
  • Savings which are identified go to the office and/or employees involved
• Pay For Performance
  • 2nd top priority
  • 1. Eliminating the concept of the job rate - everything will be based on the maximum
  • 2. Dispute resolution process
  • 3. How can you adopt rules 3/4 of the way into the year?
  • 4. You can't start off with evaluation on 3 levels and go to 4 levels
  • 5. Process should be delayed for at least a year to collect information no how you would have rated people in order to make your budget for the next year
  • 6. Give state employees some predictability
  • 7. Look at how DOT is doing it - looking at the whole picture
  • 8. Farthest along Human Services competencies definition
• Health Insurance
  • #1 Issue, but because there is no money they haven't got a sponsor
  • Pacificare pulled out - contract has been cancelled
  • 31,000 employees left high and dry
  • Want to increase subsidy
  • Initiate a study to have the State look at PERACare
  • Different plan, same program
  • Better way to fund
  • Better sense to join active & retired employees in one organization
  • Lobby PERA to increase the subsidy for over 65 group
• House Bill 1085
  • Consolidating all the statutory provisions concerning employee selection
• House Bill 1057
  • Allow any state employee to opt into the retirement plan
• Senate Bill 122
  • pilot program for performance-base pay system
• Other bills concerning higher ed aren't going anywhere
  • NORED will be overshadowed by K-12 & Transportation
• House Bill 1175 will be a big fight

Meeting adjourned.

 

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 Notes by: Mark Haury