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Show ACTION UIJEEST. Why chargo non-mombc- 77000, . rt chemical It is such a waste to throw this paper out. Would it be possible to collect it and give it to the surrounding elementary schools for the teachers to use? I would be willing to collect and deliver it if I had to. your comments will be recorded and I The $5 difference isn't an additional charge, it's the -J price of a punch card. However, we do offer a $5 discount for open mess members. . We are attempting to stimulate open mess membership by offering incentives and discounts to members. Now that the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Division is operating as one fund, losses or profits in one activity have impact in others. If we can generate sufficient additional membership in clubs by making membership more advantageous, we will be helping all activities, including the golf course, library, fitness center, etc. The punch card is still a good deal at staffed through the responsible agency for action. Please give your supervisor and chain of command the opportunity to work with you in answering questions and solving problems before for suggesting a use fDistribution - cannot otherwise be that has for wastepaper which recycled. The Directorate of verified your office is the only user carbonless. on base for this type of paper; Le., five-pa- rt with We suggest you discuss this endeavor your manage ment and contact be made with the Defense iteutuizauon and Marketing Office to see if something can be arranged to send the paper to the schools. The subject has been discussed with your management and they are willing to work with you on this idea. Thanks calling ACTION LINE. This will help me better serve your interests through the ACTION ; . LINE. vory privato Privacy Act info notNotification of Person- Moj. Gen. Jamas W. Hopp Ogden ALC commander Phono numbor is always busy Several times I've had trouble getting through to Ext. 76901, which is the Suggestion Program office. Forty-fiv- e minutes to an hour is not unusual. Is there a possibility of giving them a second phone number? This has been a problem for probably the better part of a year and it is getting more and more frustratingThe Suggestion Program is valuable to us and we wish it were a little easier to contact them. By the time our Form 50, nel Action, reaches us, it has five different office symbols on the envelope and has been opened by each one of the offices. This is Personal Privacy Act data and I resent the fact that so many people see it before it gets to me. Putting it in a sealed envelope stamped "Privacy Act Deliver Sealed" is a big joke. Why can't they just go directly to the person's supervisor? dfik KZJ Kudos I would like to pass on a kudos to Dr.' Brad Salmon of the dental clinic and the dental staff. My son recently had an accident requiring emergency dental treatment. Through Dr. Salmon's skill and genuine concern for my son, he was put back together and is looking good again. He really went the extra mile and I am very grateful for all he did. I'm one happy customer and would like you to pass that on to Dr. Salmon and his staff. - f sorry you have experienced difficulty in the ing suggestion office. The extensions are I am reach-- r 769012. ' Reaching them in a timely manner has been a concern, but we established status days on Tuesday and Thursday so we could concentrate on furnishing status. A test involving new suggestion processing procedures began '. June 15 and should really contribute to solving this ' problem. New procedures allow for suggestion monitors in each s directorate to accept, numDer ana route suggestions, can be obtained directly from the monitor, greatly reducing the number of calls to the suggestion office.: : The new procedures will allow the suggestion office to . respond to status inquiries Monday through Friday, so contact should be no problem. nanus ior supporting tne suggestion rrograin. Can't wo troat locally? the have a jVI hospital's proce-KZquestion regarding dures for sending people on temporary duty status for evaluation or treatment of certain illness. It seems like it's costing a lot of money to send people to Denver or Travis AFB, Calif., or wherever, when they're gone for three to five days at a time. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just send them to a hospital in Salt Lake City or Ogden when the procedure can't be done at our hospital? . f are con-- L Notifications of Personnel Action (SF-50- ) solidated and mailed from the personnel office to designated offices, normally the management office in each major organization. They are mailed in sealed envelopes and marked to indicate they contain Privacy Act documents. Designated officials in the major offices need the forms as a control measure. The SF-5-0 is proof that a requested personnel action has been accomplished. Thus it is not practical to eliminate this step and mail the SF-5- 0 from the personnel office directly to the first level supervisor. Other steps along the way can be eliminated. To speed processing and to eliminate unnecessary review, of personnel actions, manpower officials in each organization will now mail the SF-5- 0 directly to the emsupervisor in; lieu of sending it through ployee's first-lin-e normal chain of command. This will eliminate all the people in between the management office and an employee's first-lin-e supervisor. Immediate supervisors will annotate as necessary the Supervisor's Employee Brief, Air Force Form 971. safeguard the personnel actions and personally deliver the SF-5- 0 or issue it in a sealed envelope to the ' worker. I appreciate your concern, and these procedures, as well as the need to protect privacy action information, will be to all applicable offices. . Thank you. It is always a pleasure to receive comments such as yours. The outstanding care and sensitivity shown by Dr. Salmon is yet another example of our hospital's commitment to provide the best care possible. Please be assured that your kind words will be passed on. v ow-tu- What is intorost rato? I'm under the Civil Service Retirement System right now, but I am interested in joining the Thrift Savings Plan. When I called to find out what the minimum rate is that is guaranteed to be paid on the G Fund, all they could tell me was that it is variable. Could you give me more specific information than that? H There is no guaranteed minimum interest rate for J the G Fund. All investments in the G Fund earn interest at a rate that is equal, by law, to the average of market rates of return on UiS. Treasury marketable securities outstanding with four' or more years to maturity. The interest rate is calculated by the Treasury Department at the beginning of each month to apply to all G Fund investments made during the month. These rates are annualized "coupon" rates. This means they show the annual rate at which interest is earned oralaccrued, and do not reflect compounding. Earnings are located to individual accounts monthly. To date, the G Fund interest rate has not gone below 7.5 percent. The 1989 G Fund rate of return was 8.81 percent after administrative expenses were deducted: These expenses reduced the return by 0.21 percent or $2.10 for every $1,000 of G Fund account balance. A plan fact sheet, showing C, F and G fund monthly returns for the past period, is available upon request. Please contact Carolyn Bronson, Ext. 76142, for this information. - , f Good question. I hope this answers it. In order to medi, adequately evaluate, diagnose and treat some cal problems, repeated visits to a medical facility or a particular physician may be required. Be assured that whether or not it is less expensive and more efficient to have the patient seen ;d treated locally or sent to another military hospital is part of the decision process and each case is considered on an individual basis. There is no charge to our local hospital for care rendered by another military hospital, and the majority of , airpatients are sent via military aeromedical evacuation the to craft. Consequently, the cost of the TDY charged hospital is usually limited to per diem. Therefore, all things being equal in terms of timeliness of obtaining the required medical evaluation andor treatment, using military medical facilities is usuallye less expensive to the government than using local v. facilities. . j;J f . Hovo Bldg. 100 pay phono insido locatmove 0 the pay phone Would it be possible to ed at the southeast end of Bldg. 100 inside the building or tunnel? When you try to make a call there you can't hear for all the traffic passing by, and in the winter it is very cold and windy. ' ' 12-mon- th workers of tost results Notify done for is now random Since of copies In our building we get a read and just never are Some Times. KZJ Hilltop thrown away. Could they either make provisions to reor cycle the papers, cut back on the number distributed, a think I because they're not publish the paper at all v-; waste? v . 'r ", ' - quirements. j The Boy Scouts are managing and receiving proceeds from recycled newspapers. One large receptacle is located in the parking lot north of the First Security Bank in the East Area. Another receptacle has been requested for . added convenience to organizationsindividuals ia the West Area. Once it is received and set up, we will publicize it in the Hilltop Times, as well as the Ogden Air Logistics Center Bulletin. I differ with your opinion of the Hilltop Times. I think in w it is one of the best newspapers information to all workhelps to convey very important '' ' . ers and family members. said they In the last readership survey, readers received about 90 percent of their Air Force and com- . most of mand information via the paper. That sounds like the workers here value our paper. The base exchange contractor for pay telephones is awafe of the pay telephone situation in Bldg. 100. uuuuwg w, .representatives uiu a sim? oui vcy vi jruu termine the location of pay telephones to better serve the needs of all parties involved. If you would like more in--' formation, please contact Sandy Brightshue at Ext. 73907. She will be happy to answer any questions you might have. " Hard to got spot on lomon lot car on the lemon is so hard to it get your Why lot? There are always empty slots there, but when you go in to have your name put on the list, it takes a number of days before they call you. Why does it take so ; long when there are always open slots? -- tho baso nowspapor Qccyclo of the srv extra lot f f w off-bas- . being drug testing the Reserves and active duty military, the procedures are very specific with warning of disciplinary action if the test is positive or if the test is resisted. Because this is an issue that has personal implications, I believe the recipients have the right to be notified in writing of the test results. The policy now is to notify the recipient only if the results are positive. The test results could be valuable for individual records. This same requirement is valid for AIDS testing. Would it be possible to provide recipients with test results, whether they are positive or negative? I agree that AIDS and urinalysis testing results are very important, and strict procedures are in effect to protect. both the individual and the specimen. If positive, both testing programs have very specific guidance for individual notification and verification of the -T A- ; results. i i - I - The distribution points and number of papers deliv ered were established many years ago. If you believe you are receiving too many papers, please have your the hatsupervisor call BITC, Ext. 72855. They maintain current reing and will be happy to update it with your 11 I have a suggestion that could hopefully our schools. In our office we have several dot carbonless matrix and band printers that use five-pawith a treated because is it be cannot that recycled paper ACTION LINE is your opportunity to make Hill AFB a better place to live, work and play. When you call Ext. -- Hilltop Times 13 1990 Donating papor could holp schools benefit oxtra? rs Why do they charge people who are not members of the officers' or noncommissioned officers' clubs $85 for a golf punch card when club members only have to pay $80? It doesn't seem fair when we plan to pay cash that they charge us an extra $5 just because we don't hold a club card. $85. 77COOJuly - Quite simply, if you're positive, you will be formally notified through appropriate procedures. However, if you have not received notification of a positive and are still concerned about your test, confirmation of your urinalysis test may be obtained through your squadron orderly room. . For AIDS tests, negative results may be verified by contacting the Environmental Health Services located in Bldg. 249. For obvious reasons, results will not be released over the phone and positive identification is re- -' ' quired. For the present time the Air Force has put a hold on drug testing for all civilians. : . " . : Although there appears to always be open spaces, althe 23 slots available in the lemon lot are almost ways completely rented out. Slots are rented out for y periods. Often renters use their slot only on weekends or alter worn, tne rental agreement requires that the auto hobby shop be notified if the vehicle is sold, making a slot available for others. Additionally, the lot is checked twice weekly and renters of vacant slots contacted to ensure the vehicles haven't sold and slots are still required. reopie interesiea in renting wnen uw wi, v tuu placed on a waiting list, and are called wnen space comes available. Over the past few months, the waiting list has been turning approximately every 10 days. A . 14-da- . |