Personnel Committee, December 29, 2020

The town published minutes (text) and an agenda for this meeting. Those minutes are the record; what follows is a guide to the recording.

contracts and unionshiringpersonnelpublic safetyroads and dpwtechnologytown departments

Present: Donald John (member); Sue (member); Donna (member); Dave (member); Joanna (member); Julie (presenter). Names are the caption model’s hearing and may be wrong.

Votes

1. ▶ 5:33Approve the new hire form for Michael Roberts as submitted.passed
2. ▶ 19:33Accept the reserve police officer job description with minor grammatical changes, placed on the Salary Administration Plan.passed
3. ▶ 29:12Accept the network administrator job description at grade 13 as submitted.passed
4. ▶ 34:42Update the Salary Administration Plan to change longevity from a percentage to base pay amounts, section 25.passed

And 2 procedural: approve the minutes of october 29th 2020. (▶ 2:25); adjourn the meeting. (▶ 37:04).

Against the town’s minutes

The town published minutes (text) for this meeting; ours were compared item by item. 4 agree, 1 caption error resolved by the official reading, 2 substantive differences. The town’s minutes are a full record.

1. differsNetwork administrator job description at grade 13 (vote outcome)▶ 29:12

   recording Accept the network administrator job description at grade 13 as submitted. — passed

   town’s minutes “motion by: s. andrews to accept the recommendation of the towns h.r. director to accept the job description, at a grade level 13 in the sap.”

   We record it as passed, but the official minutes give the outcome as 'not stated'; check the recording and the official minutes for the result.

2. differsMinimum wage compliance timing▶ 36:24

   recording Minimum wage compliance for town employees will be taken up at the next meeting or the one after.

   town’s minutes “j. belliveau will continue to assess that issue and present the topic at our next meeting.”

   Ours says the next meeting or the one after, and the official says the next meeting; check the recording for the timing.

Compared 2026-11-03. Neither record is treated as the referee: a caption error is the same fact heard badly; a difference is for a person to check at the timestamp.

The money

1. ▶ 3:49Heavy equipment operator pay for snow plowing hire

   A retired DPW worker who has plowed for the town since 2004 is to start at a higher step of the pay grade, as the position was previously placed.

   as heard:pay grade ninestep 8 of 2664

2. ▶ 7:43Reserve police officer pay grade

   The reserve officer was proposed for a grade, which comes closer to the police union pay scale at the top step.

   as heard:grade 10

3. ▶ 22:49Network administrator pay grade

   The grade was set as an average of his current pay and comparable communities, and the IT director split shifts toward the town.

   as heard:grade 1370 30 split50 50

4. ▶ 32:56Longevity pay

   Longevity pay changes from a percentage to a flat dollar amount to match the clerical union. Those currently receiving more will be red circled.

   as heard:two percent

Settled without a vote

• ▶ 30:06Julie will make the physical and mental requirements wording consistent with the most recent job description format.
• ▶ 36:24Minimum wage compliance for town employees will be taken up at the next meeting or the one after.

Documents and exhibits

State law asks minutes to list the documents and exhibits used at a meeting (M.G.L. c.30A §22(a)). Names from the recording are the caption model’s hearing; the two sides are matched by name, by script, so a document named two different ways can be missed. A place to look, not a finding.

Where the time went

Minutes of recording by subject, from the topic spans below. A topic with two subjects counts toward both.

• personnel35 min · 91%
• public safety15 min · 39%
• policy15 min · 39%
• technology11 min · 28%
• staffing11 min · 28%
• hiring3 min · 8%
• roads and dpw3 min · 8%
• contracts and unions3 min · 8%

The whole meeting, in order

1. ▶ 0:00Call to order, COVID remote meeting notice, minutesvoted · 3:25 long
2. ▶ 3:27New hire form for plow operator, retired DPW workervoted · 3:08 long · hiring, roads and dpw, personnel
3. ▶ 6:37Reserve police officer job description and placement on the SAPvoted · 15:03 long · personnel, public safety, policy
4. ▶ 21:42Network administrator job description and gradevoted · 10:48 long · personnel, technology, staffing
5. ▶ 32:32SAP longevity amendmentvoted · 3:08 long · personnel, contracts and unions
6. ▶ 35:40Board comments, minimum wage follow-up, adjournmentvoted · 2:50 long · personnel

What the captions could not carry

• Adjournment vote result and count were not captured clearly.
• The wording of several votes was garbled, and some roll calls only partly captured.

Reports this meeting suggests

Our reading of the discussion: questions where numbers were in play and a page laying them out would have helped. Every meeting’s suggestions are merged into one register.

• ▶ 7:43Salary Administration PlanHow are town jobs graded and paid under the Salary Administration Plan, and what do new positions cost?already answered: thread:sap-rewrite

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