Meeting with David Villanueva and Steve Keil

I had a meeting with David Villanueva, the CIO, and Steve Keil, the Director of Labor Relations, on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 1:30pm. One of the items we discussed was the DPPA proposal to take furloughs to save positions that are scheduled to be laid off. At the last meeting, Steve Keil said that we could not take the dollars saved in the whole Representation Unit of 028 by furloughs and apply the money to the 15.8 positions to be laid off in Representation Unit 028. We would have to do it on department basis. That is, each department could save dollars by having workers in Representation Unit 028 take furloughs and then that money could be used to stop the layoffs of people in Representation Unit 028 in that department.

Steve Keil gave me a Personnel Budget Report for Representation Unit 028 that was sorted by Departments for Fiscal Year 2009-10. With this in hand, I redid the calculations for each department and he right; there was not one department that could save enough money from furloughs to save any positions that were to be laid off in that department.

So it looks like people in Representation Unit 028 will keep their COLA and Step Increases and will not be on furloughs. We will know for sure on June 17 – 18th, 2009 when the Board of Supervisors approves the Budget for Fiscal Year 2009-10.