Last Meeting with the CIO

On February 8th, 2011 in the afternoon, I had my last meeting with David Villanueva, the CIO of the County. I offered congratulations on his new job as the Administrator of Internal Services Agency. He is going to start on Monday, February 14th, 2011 and he is leaving the IT world much better than he found it. David said that there is not going to a replacement due to the pitfalls that await the new CIO and that might be someone who is applying for the job.

The next agenda item was DPPA Representation Election. It is still unclear when the election will take place, due to the other County unions trying to get 10% of 028 signatures to get on the ballot. DPPA has unanimously agreed with what the committee recommended which was UPEC (United Public Employees of California, Local 792) and laid out our course. On Friday, February 11th, 2011 the County will be able to go to the California State Mediation and Conciliation Service to schedule the election.

Then I asked about the ‘IT Classifications and Civil Service’ one more time. This is posted on dppa.org as ‘TRG "DRAFT" Meeting MINUTES - Tuesday, November 16, 2010’ and all 028 employees should take a look at it. Since January 18th, 2011, the last time I called a meeting with him and Rami, they had another meeting that told them that the County has written into its Charter that employees has the right of Civil Service and it would take a vote by the people of Sacramento to change it.

As for the Budget, David said that he doesn’t see any layoffs in the new year; but the Governors budget is still in question.

DPPA has enjoyed the meetings with the CIO and wishes him the best of luck.