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King County Police Officers Guild Board of Directors Meeting October 10, 2007
MEMBERS PRESENT: Steve Eggert – President Pat Bowen – Vice President Ron Kierce – Sec/Treasurer Thad Frampton – Board Member 1 Mark Lemoine – Board Member 3 Marcus Williams – Board Member 4 Mark Rorvik – Board Member 5 A. Kelley – SAU CALLED TO ORDER: The Board of Directors meeting was called to order at 1610 hrs. by President Steve Eggert. COMPAS CHARITABLE BACON BOWL FUNDRAISER: Our lobbying group in Olympia, COMPAS (Council of Metropolitan Police and Sheriffs) has informed KCPOG that they are sponsoring a table for the Third Annual Bacon Bowl Dinner banquet and auction to be held at the Space Needle on October 19th, 2007. Anyone wishing to attend and is in need of tickets. Please contact Elizabeth Loy at SPOG to inquire about seating at the COMPAS table. APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES: The Minutes from the September 12, 2007, Board Meeting have been posted and were submitted again for review. A motion was made by Mark Lemoine to approve the minutes as submitted. The motion was seconded by Thad Frampton. Motion passed. SEPTEMBER INCOME & EXPENSE REPORT: Due to a power outage and irreparable damage to the Treasurer’s computer system, the Income and Expense report could not be presented. A new computer has been ordered and should be functioning by next week. Most data should be able to be obtained off the old hard drive and transferred to the new. RECRUITING BONUS FOR LATERALS: The Recruiting Unit has given the Sheriff a recruiting plan that may help KCSO attract more Lateral candidates. Some of the proposals are converting Sick Leave and Vacation Leave from the prior agency into KCSO, Reimbursement for travel expenses, signing bonus, recruiting bonus, and early taking home of CPO. KCPOG recognizes the difficulty of attracting quality lateral hires in the Seattle area, especially when many other agencies are already offering their own recruiting bonus plans. KCPOG is supportive of these proposals and hope they are successful in attracting high quality lateral Police Officers to our Department. At this time, we see no problem with current recruiting proposals. GUILD MEETINGS – ATTENDANCE : The KCPOG BY-Laws indicate than an elected Board Member that has three or more unexcused meeting absences will be considered as resigned. Starting with the October General Membership Meeting, those who do not attend meetings will have their names included in the “attendance” section of the minutes with the reflection that it was an unexcused absence. Board Members that cannot attend the meetings should call or email the Guild office to advise of their absence. Those in attendance can judge whether or not the absence is excused or not. The membership is better served if they know if their Guild representative is attending meetings or not. They should, after all being representing their constituents by attending and participating in all Guild meetings. CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION FOR BACON BOWL BANQUET/AUCTION: Deputy Jahie Miller addressed the Board and gave a short video presentation on the history of the Bacon Bowl Charity. The Charity is a non profit group that is involved in numerous charitable events that help support children and other community causes such as Shop with A Cop and Bacon Bowl Charity Auction / Banquet. Jahie asked for any contribution the KCPOG would consider in support of this group. A brief discussion followed and the Board decided to assist the organization with a monetary contribution and also encourage the organization to solicit the help of the SHERIFF fund. A motion to contribute $500 to the group was made by Mark Lemoine. The motion was seconded by Thad Frampton. Motion passed. PAC INTERVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The Political Action Committee interviewed Richard Pope, who is running for Position Two on the King County Council. Mr. Pope is running against Incumbent Jane Hague, who the Guild has endorsed in the past. The PAC is aware of the current political and personal issues that surround Jane Hague and wish to have contact with her before making a recommendation to the General Membership. EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE: A closed session was commenced to discuss an on-going employee grievance. Two topics for the General Membership resulted from the grievance discussion. First, members are reminded to request and examine their personnel file once a year to make sure letters of Corrective Counseling , Tickle notes or other types of corrective or counseling correspondence are removed (one year from the date of occurrence). Second, when an employee requests the Guild’s assistance in the grievance process, it’s critical to respond to the Guild’s requests for interviews, correspondence, etc.. If you don’t show for an interview or fail to complete the required written correspondence; it makes it extremely difficult to proceed with a grievance. PCT 3 MANDATORY O/T POLICY FOR PATROL: Mark Lemoine inquired if there has been any solidification with the Pct. 3 Patrol Sergeants on the historical calendar used for the mandatory O/T sign up. The calendar system, for a variety of reasons, has not been working. Steve Eggert met with some of the Pct. 3 Sergeants: The meeting started with a brief history about the calendar and why it was started. The main purpose was to change a system that was very burdensome to those with little seniority and to provide predictability for deputies as to when they may be held over. We wanted to avoid deputies being placed in a position where they had to choose between legitimate personal needs (childcare and the like) and potentially having to be considered insubordinate for there inability to work when ordered to do so at the spur of the moment. Unfortunately, the system was broken and became unreliable. Steve agreed to the use a rotational seniority list for the equitable distribution of mandatory overtime. The sergeants agreed, in using a rotational list that they need to be flexible when dealing with deputies and special needs they may have on a particular day. All agreed that does not mean a deputy can avoid their turn in the barrel forever; they will remain in the “next up” position. Another concern, that Steve had, was using any list or calendar for mandatory overtime before someone’s shift. It was agreed that the rotational list could be used for mandatory overtime before a shift only when a deputy is informed of that overtime assignment while they are still on duty. There is no expectation that a deputy make themselves available during their off hours when they are next up on the list. If sergeants have to make phone calls to fill a vacancy on a shift and mandatory a deputy that they are able to reach, that would count as that individuals turn on the list, regardless of their position on the list at the time. It was also agreed, that for this to be a seniority list and not just a rotational list, that the list would be refreshed after completion of shift change each year and start over at the top of the list again. It was also agreed that deputies moving from one shift to the next would be placed on the new shift's seniority list according to their seniority and would be used in a mandatory overtime situation off the new shift list regardless of whether they had already been used in that capacity on the prior shift list. EARLY WARNING SYSTEM: Mark Lemoine has informed the Board that Joe Peach has recently attended a Precinct 3 Staff Meeting and discussed an Early Warning System for the KCSO. The County understands this is a mandatory subject of bargaining and has advised their intent to negotiate with KCPOG. The membership should be aware that any discussion on the potential implementation of mandatory subjects of bargaining that is made directly with individual or groups of KCPOG members could be illegal. If the membership is aware of any discussion, step or implementation of these subjects, it should immediately be brought to the attention of the Guild. Some of these subjects may consist of Early Warning Systems, Changes in the FTO Program and new reporting requirements for off duty work just to name a few. SERGEANT’S TEST: Pat Bowen informed the Board that KCSO is assembling a new group for a future Sergeant’s exam. As discussed in previous meeting minutes, an Unfair Labor Practice has been filed with PERC over the last sergeant’s exam. PORTAL TO PORTAL: The Board is aware that there has been some push back on approval of Portal to Portal O/T on the behalf of some Sergeants. Steve has spoken with the Sheriff’s Office and County OHRM attorneys and are in agreement that almost all overtime, including court, in the Collective Bargaining Agreement is PORTAL to PORTAL with the exception of shift extensions and voluntary Patrol Shift Overtime which is signed up for prior to the day being worked. MONETARY CONTRIBUTION: Ron Kierce received a request from the campaign of Attorney Dan Satterberg for a monetary contribution. KCPOG has endorsed Satterberg in the current race for King County Prosecutor. The Board discussed a potential donation and decided to contribute the requested $700 to Satterberg’s campaign. A motion was made by Steve Eggert and seconded by Pat Bowen. Motion passed. ADJOURNED: The Board of Directors Meeting adjourned at 1800 hrs. |