Meeting with Steve Keil

I had a good meeting with Steve Keil, the Director of Labor Relations this afternoon.

First of all, this morning I received the proposed layoffs for all County Employees, except for elected offices.  For DPPA the projected positions to cut were 16.8.  I also got a copy of the report that showed what each representative unit, of which DPPA is 028, could save if they gave up the COLA, Step Increases, and went on furlough.  I used this to calculate what we would have to give up to save our positions.

Furlough for fourteen days - $1,392.272 (just like the Managers)

Step Increase postponed for 2 years - $865,200

But we would save our COLA

Total cuts: $2,257,492

Positions proposed to lose is 16.8

Say $100,000 per position: $1,680,000

Total giving back to the County: $2,257,492 - $1,680,000 = $577,492 (to save 5 – 6 jobs elsewhere)

My suggestion would be that we would give up fourteen days in the next fourteen months in furlough and the step increases will be postponed for two years so that no one would be laid off. But we would keep our 2.9% COLA.

Steve Keil said he could not agree without talking to the many departments that have IT, but he would call in the Department Heads and see if they would accept this proposal.  He said he would call another meeting with me in a few weeks. So hold on.