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Show Hilltop Times June 1, 1995 ACTION LINE is your opportunity to make Hill AFB a bet- "' ter place to live, work and play. When you call Ext. or send on LOGDIS to IGACTION" or on GroupWise to ID "MURRAYM, your comments will be recorded and staffed through the agency responsible for action. Please give your supervisor and chain of command the opportunity to work with you in answering questions and solving problems before calling ACTION LINE. This will help me better serve your interests through ACTION LINE. Items of basewide interest to the in the Hilltop Times. Hill workforce will Ql ' ' Phone numbers ' The base agencies listed below can be contacted directly if you have a complaint or a problem with their services: Security Police Morale, Welfare and Recreation Base Restaurants RetirementCompensation (civilian) Social Actions Employee Relations Military Pay Civilian Pay Air Force Suggestion Program IG Complaints (for appointment) Fraud, Waste and Abuse (recording) 649th Medical Group Civil Engineering Public Affairs Military Housing Maintenance Safety Office Union AFOSI Narcotics Hotline be published Maj. Gen. Pat Condon Ogden Smoke-fre- e ' ALC commander lunch? read the Hilltop Times Action Line arti- cle titled "Let's be smoke-free.- " You said since this is a federal reservation, we do not have to follow state legislation. Well, why don't we try to follow the state's example and let all the people who have put up with the smoking for all these years have a smoke-fre- e place to have lunch? What is currently beabout this controversial topic? done ing it The Department of Defense established a work place and the policy for a smoke-fre-e Air Force Tobacco Reduction Plan established a goal to reduce tobacco use in the Air Force. This guidance was used to establish an Air Force Materiel Command tobacco reduction policy which prohibits smoking throughout AFMC facilities except in designated smoking areas such as certain Services' Division facilities. Hill AFB formed a working group to implement the AFMC policy. A local tobacco reduction poticy has been developed; however, prior to implementing this policy, bargaining obligations with the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1592 must be satisfied. A Tobacco Reduction Committee, comprised of union and management representatives, has been formed to resolve issues related to the prohibition of smoking in facilities where the elimination of secondhand smoke cannot be accomplished. Currently, the committee is evaluating the issue of outdoor smoking shelters. Until this issue is agreed upon and a local tobacco reduction policy is in place, current smoking arrangements for bargaining unit employees will A continue. book Waitingis for a phone book the new base phone due years and many organizational changes have made it very obsolete. Why not put it on the base Bulletin Board System and just update that way on a regular basis? Then Local Area Network administrators could copy it to their servers for easy access for a majority of the base personnel. QWhenFour J The last printing of the Hill AFB Tele-phone Directory was March 1994. Copies can be obtained through the Defense Printing Service, Ext 77077; however, as you can imagine with continual changes on the base, this version is outdated. At the present time, the 75th Communications Squadron is gathering updated information from each organization on base. The information will be included in the new directory and will again be put on the digitized system at Defense Printing Service for all to obtain copies, as needed. All organizations will be notified when the new directory is available. The estimated completion date is July 1. A base directory and locator system is presently available in LOGDIS and Office Vision and is updated regularly. At the Office Vision prompt type "BASEPHN" and at the LOGDIS main menu type "Z" (Site Speciality) "G" (General Application) and choose your option. GroupWise does not have the same total locator capability at the present time; it is a future goal. However, the same personnel involved in GroupWise implementation would be required to develop and maintain a total base directory. At present, only those individuals with Office Vision or GroupWise IDs are listed in the address A book. For assistance, call Mary Summers, 75th munications SquadronSCMO, Ext. Com- 50 11 43 42 16 28 51 75 01 05 00 18 38 01 63 33 57 4. privileges expire (if less than one year). Applicants must possess an authorized ID card and must comply with established vehicle registration requirements. Questions regarding this matter may be referred to Don Greathouse, 75 SPTGSPA, Ext. Maj. Gen. Pat Condon Car pools working? implemented the car pool QWhen Hill the intention was to give the employees an incentive to save fuel and career reduce traffic. Based on my 10-ye- ar feel this program has been badly abused. When I see cars leaving from the car pool lots, I hardly ever see more than one person in the car, no matter what day of the week it is. Perhaps some of the car pool riders work in different buildings, but for the most part it appears to me the car pool system is not functioning as intended. There are people who allegedly car pool and don't even work on the same shift, or live in opposite directions of each other from the base. I suggest you get rid of the car pool program and open the car pool lot to everybody and reduce the overhead of each organization who must provide a parking lot monitor. working at the base, I As policy. Hill encourages the maximum use of car pools. As an incentive to promote use, organizations were provided leeway in dispensing parking privileges to car pool users. These privileges translated into desirable parking slots and are under the purview and jurisdiction of unit parking lot monitors acting on behalf of the unit commander or director. If this incentive is being abused, it should be addressed with the appropriate lot monitor. If he or she does not provide a resolution to your satisfaction, it can be handled through the organizational chain of command. VI JF Are radios allowed? the base policy on radios in the Radios are being played in on base during work of work the areas many hours. They are often very loud. To many people, it is irritating and just unwanted noise. is QWhat place? The restriction or use of radios is a management decision with the primary concerns being safety and productivity in our work areas. When the use of personal radios is authorized by management, the noise level and program selection should be agreeable to all or their use may be restricted. The key to this or any other personal relations issue lies with the individual. Each of us, regardless of position, must respect the rights of others and practice patience and tolerance as we perform our tasks. Managers need the understanding and full cooperation of everyone as they make this sometimes difficult decision. yi f Clear the smoke Q 225? Can something be done about people smoking in all the entryways of Bldg. J Several of the entryways in Bldg. 225 have been designated as "Authorized Smoking Areas." Other entryways are not authorized. The Aircraft Operations Division will have their safety personnel perform daily walkthroughs (particularly at break times) and stop personnel from smoking in the entryways. non-designat- ed A difficult process members who military separated the Special Separation Benefit QFor and Incentive Voluntary Separation programs, it becomes difficult for us to get back on base We would Bee to thank Lyman Draper and the telephone installers far the out- stan&3 service they provided whan we were required to move into a temporary faciHry wfcfte CJJj. 1227 was renovated. This move necessitated the installation of phono service In tSe new facility and the re wiring of our old bu&ng. Not only was the iRStaation work completed on time and wfchovt any problems, but Mr. Draper went beyond the extra mile to assist us In meLfog some unforeseen, required changes m our phono requirements. We appreciate this typo of professional service; it mode our move a lot easier. We appreciate your comments concerning the support you received from Mr. Draper and our telephone installers. I'm told he is one of our finest telephone surveyors and can be counted on to support any telephone rtqutrenenL With the continuous restructuring and base relocations, Mr. Draper and the to use the commissary and base exchange which we are entitled to use for up to two years. Since we have to surrender our vehicle stickers when outprocessing, we are forced to stop and show our ID card at the gates. We were told that the Pass and ID Unit would not give us temporary passes. Can there be an easier way created for us or must we continue to show our ID cards every time we want to come on base? Af Two options are available in order to allow former military personnel separated under SSBVSI to enter the installation to take advantage of base exchange and commissary privileges. First, you are correct that retired personnel may only enter the installation by displaying their authorized ID card at the installation gate and being cleared for entry in each instance. Secondly, you were misinformed that Pass and ID would not issue temporary vehicle passes. Personnel may report to the Pass and Registration Section. Bldg. 1219. to obtain a temporary vehicle pass (AF Form 75) that will be valid up to one year or until commissary and base exchange telepZtme folXs ksve been continuously U'ork ing every avenue in order to provide base teUiphofis customers the best possible com' munications service. " , |