Meeting with the CIO

In this meeting with David Villanueva, the CIO of the County, we talked about the Budget and the IT Consolidation.

Tomorrow, David is going to the Board of Supervisor’s (BOS) meeting to find out how the County is going to pay for the ten million dollars that the BOS promised the Sheriff. He was hopeful that IT would not lose any more money. Then we talked about what the State of California had decided last night in its agreement on how to close the $26.3 billion budget gap. For the County it looks like it will mean $52 million in further cuts. It was too early to tell if that reduction would have any repercussions with IT.

When I asked if the IT Consolidation would be finished in December 2009, David said that there were two reasons that it might not be done as he had suggested last month. The fact that it was now considered to be a five month job, instead of three, and that the money has to come from someplace. He thought that this was going to require another BOS meeting to get it kicked off.

Regarding Medical Supplement for Retirees

In this meeting with Steve Keil, the Director of Labor Relations, I asked about SEIU lawsuit which they had won with regarding medical supplement for Retirees. Steve came back and said that the Court said the County had to make payment to the Retirees, it did not say how much. He said the County would have to go back to the Court and ask how much. While it looks like we may have won be prepared for an extended Court battle.

Labor Relations Meeting

Today I had a meeting with Steve Keil, the Director of Labor Relations and David Villanueva, the CIO of the County. We talked about the Contractors that were left after July 4th, 2009.

Thank you to all the County Employees who had taken time to send me the names of the contractors who were still working. These were the bulk of the contractors that I asked Steve Keil about. Steve Keil listened to what I had to say and he told me he would look into all the cases that I had reported to him. I will know more in a matter of a week or more and will report that to you.

Meeting: Exemption for Contractors

I requested a meeting with Steve Keil to talk about the 71J Contractor exemption. He has setup a meeting on Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 2:45pm with DPPA and the CIO, David Villanueva. We want to make sure that if IT Analysts got laid off any contractors who are still working for the County had a good exemption. I will put up another President’s News after we have this meeting to tell you what I found out.