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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Oct. 9, 1970 Dugways ACS Program Geared for Expansion Painter retires after 20 years Mr. Keith Black, a painter with the Facilities Division, retirement receive a 20 year service certificate and a commander. M. Shudle, post certificate from Col diaries Colonel Etkin Responds To Questions By Unions The interchange of infonnation lietween management and DTC employees is a vital part of the Centers Command Information Program. In this regard, the three local union presidents of the National Association of Government Employees recently coordinated in the submission of a numlier of questions to the Commanding Officer. Colonel Etkins response to four of these questions is given below. The remainder will lie answered in subsequent editions of this newspaper. Q. What is the status of reorganization plans? A. WERE STILL studying the total organization with the ultimate aim of arriving at a concept which will help to reduce the cost of operation, reduce overhead costs, increase efficiency and effectiveness, all with minimum impact upon the personnel structure of the command. The ultimate decision of what our organization structure will look like does not rest with the Commanding Officer of the Deseret Test Center. That decision must eventually come from the Joint Chiefs of Staff because we are under a Joint Table of Distribution. For this reason I cannot predict when a decision will reach us; however, that decision cannot be made until a recommendation is made by the Deseret Test Center and that proposal has not yet been made. It is inevit- - An updated and improved Army Community Service Program is presently being initiated here at Dugway Proving Ground. The ACS, The Armys Heart, solis an Army-wid- e program to help diers and their dependents, meet personal alone. problems that they cannot handle will PROGRAM THE NEW provide financial assistance through the Army transEmergency Relief Fund, emergency aid to handichild and care, portation assiscapped dependents, and special with families and individuals to tance burdens resulting from moving and relocations. ACS is different from other volunteer programs, such as the Red and Cross, because it is Army-funde-d available only to qualified members of the military community. The primary endeavors of Dugways remodeled ACS program will be aimed directly at new incoming personnel. With these people in mind, the Morale and Welfare Division is planning to have Welcome to Dugway brochures and a Special Services Booklet printed for distribution to all newcomers. The operation would prove to be quite simple in that a constant list of incoming personnel would be obtained from Military Personnel Division and Civilian Personnel, and the Dugway pamphlets plus other folders on Utah and the immediate vicinity, would lie mailed to the individual prior to his arrival at Dugway. In this way, the person would have some idea of what the post was like before he arrived and also what type of facilities would be available. ANOTHER COAL of the new program is to establish a Sponsor Program in the lower enlisted for Newcomers men category. There is presently a great need for a service like this. The Officers Wives Club and the NCO Ladies Auxiliary currently offer this service to the incoming officers and higher ranking enlisted men, hut somehow the lower enlisted men and their families are often overlooked. If we could a sponsorship program in closer conjunction with the womens organizations, there would no longer be a new family arriving at Dugway who would remain apart and unacquainted with the area and available facilities, states Cpt. Maxwell Ware, Chief of Morale and lie-gi- n Welfare Division. The Waiting Wives segment ACS Program likewise is receiving a lot of study in the revamping of the basic program. The ACS is the liaison for wives and families residing at Dugway while their husbands are serving overseas tours of duty. The office assists in such things as obtaining Identification Cards, securing' proper allotments, pro- viding emergency transportation, help ing to overcome a language handicap, or any other problems that might arise. The familiar slogan in Army circles that the Army Takes Care of Its Own can definitely be applied to the ACS program. 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Service Club To Hold Chess The DTC Deseret Sampler Tournament The Sandy Acres Service Club will sponsor a Chess Tournament to lie held on Octolier 15 at the Service Club. must entrants Prospective 10 10:00' at Octolier register by p.m. For further information con- tact Mrs. Avinger at the Service Club. Eft your con-tinui- nr If higher headquarters reduces the personnel he has to decide what work can lie stopped or spaces, restaffed in order to meet the numlier of spaces cut. If money is short, he mast decide what work can lie stopped, delayed or moved so that the remaining people can lie paid. Based on his organizational requirements the Commander determines the competitive levels in which reductions will lie made, and the numlier of reductions to lie made at each competitive level. Q. How is it determined which employees will lie affected in a reduction in force? A. TIIE AMOUNT of competition, that is the amount of "humping" in a reduction in force, depends ' 1. The competitive area established. 2. The competitive level in which the' employees position is placed for reduction in force purposes. Q. What is a competitive area? A. A competitive area is the geographical area andor organizational boundaries in which people may bump others out of jobs because of RIF. The area is large enough to permit adequate competition among employees, that is, not so snail that individuals are arbitrarily protected or eliminated from competing. Normally,' it will consist of an installation or activity within which employees are reassigned, promoted or demoted under a single administrative authority. Q. UNDER WIIAT circumstances would there lie more than one competitive area at an installation? A. In those instances where an activity is independent of other activities in operation, work, function, and personnel administration, with a separate organization, a separate competitive area is established. Q. How much competition sich as Inunping is there between competitive areas? A. EMPLOYEES in one competitive area cannot bump those in another regardless of the fact that they may be physically located at the same installation or in the same commuting area. Q. Within a competitive area, what is the extent of employee bumping for jotis in a reduction in force? A. In the first round of competition, employees compete within their own competitive level. Q. WHAT IS a competitive level? A. A competitive level consists of all joiis within a competitive area which are exactly the same or are enough alike in duties, responsibilities, pay system, grade, and working conditions that any employee can lie moved from one to another with little training and without interrupting the work being done. Q. What things are considered in placing similar the same competitive level? in joiis A. THE INTERCHANGEABILITY of positions is based on all the qualifications necessary to perform the duties and responsibilities outlined in the job description. Factors which are considered in this determina- Am permi Distribution: One copy per fivf military pemounA one copy per family and one copy per five civilian em players. AdVertidng copy mould be saul 'The Transcript Bulletin FuliMibig Co. 58- - North Main, Tooele, or P.O. 3H0 to place classified ads. All pictures an official U.S. Army photographs unlea otherwise noted. 11m ideation of them is not restricted except in cases involving repubheatiou advertising purposes at which time permission of the Department of the Aasy must ha uhtakmri Shoe Department SPECIALS! Mens & Boys 4 Buckle OVERSHOES Reg 4.98 99 ONLY once-a-ye- ar CANDY SPECIAL Oct. 8-2- 2 tion are: 1. Length and kinds of experience and training requirements. Specific skills and aptitudes necessary. Physical requirements, if appropriate. Security clearance requirements. Time required for an employee in one job to reach a level of satisfactory performance in another, without causing undue interruption to work. Q. Under what circumstances would a separate competitive level lie established for identical or similar positions? A. If the position is a bona-fid- e trainee job, or in a formally designated developmental program (i.e.. Career Intern Program), it is placed in a different competitive level from regular positions of the same grade, job series, etc., because the qualifications required for assignment to positions are different. The usual difference is that trainee joiis require specific education as trainin the same ing requirements not needed in1 other series and gpal. 2. 3. 4. 5. jl W lbs reg. 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Deseret Teat Center, DESERET SAMPLER. Dug-waThe paper ii an off-Utah MU, (Telephone publics tion end is not an official Army newspaper However, li publication racrivm Aimed Forces Pma Setvicejand Army News Features materials and papers era end AfyFriUeriel without written. authorized to reprint C future. of the able that an organization study should consider the move of DTC to DPG. No decision has been made on this action either. Q. What is the status of the Fort Detrick move to DPG? A During the past 3 weeks several work groups from Fort Detrick have visited DTC and DPG. They are engaged in planning for a possible move to DPG. However, the decision to relocate from Fort Detrick, Maryland, has not been made. The current plan calls for the Fort Detrick element, if it comes to DPG, to be a separate Class II Activity with its own mission. There has been no thought of the Fort Detrick and the DPG biological missions. Q. WILL THERE be a RIF because of budgetlimits? ary A. There is a possibility that additional personnel reductions may be required to come within the current budget and that projected for FY 1972. Howactions which are being ever, there are many taken to reduce the cost of operations which, if successful, will reduce the impact an personnel reductions. In this area much help is needed to reduce our operating costs. We are in a Defense-wid- e austerity climate and budgetary restrictions are not being lessened. We are laboring intensely to reduce our costs so that our people may continue on the rolls. We are not able at this time to indicate how the reductions will lie made or when to expect them. In our efforts to reduce costs we are looking for new work in the test area. We have had very limited successes primarily because our potential customers are also feeling budget pinches. Each of us in our own way can help to save money and get more for less. We are the experts in our field and we should lie able to Isolate cost saving features within our assignments. I appeal to each of you to use liold innovation in the suggestion and resource conservation programs to get more output for less expenditure of resources. Q. IN THE LIGHT of an inevitable budgetary RIF, why are we spending 1.4 million dollars on Ecology and CCA contracts over the next three years? A. Repeated reviews of contractural activities have lieen accomplished by DTC management during the past six months in the light of current budgetary limitations. As a result of such actions, a drastic reduction in contractural activities was instituted in the middle of the last fiscal year in an effort to maintain the maximal test capability The saving realized is estimated to lie approximately four million dollars per annum. The contracts currently in effect have lieen deemed the minimum essential in support of the technical program and are in consonance with policies from higher headquarters. These contracts are suliject to review and revision. Q. WHAT IS the responsibility of the Commanu-e- r of the installation for determining the extent of the reduction in force? A. in- formation on the ACS program or who would like to volunteer his services for work on the different facets of the program, should contact the ACS Officer, lLt. Michael Davies at 2333. on-goi- Tonight, watch brighter, sharner Ilarlon Pulsipher, John D. McPliee, Wanda ) Shown with their service award are Hildebrand. and Jacob Rice, John K. McBride (L-R- Two other projects that are on the drawing boards for the Community Services will be an ACS Newsletter and the establishment of an emergency service committee. The Newsletter is tentatively planned for publication in November and will contain helpful items dealing with the. post and its services, possible womens news and recipes, and a list of individuals offering services for hire. THE EMERGENCY Service Committee will assist any individual during an emergency situation. This may include such things as providing care for children when the parents are suddenly called away because of a death or severe illness, providing transportation to a location whenever a situation arises and no private transportation is available, or any other emergency issues. The Morale and Welfare Division is also seeking volunteers who would like to serve on a committee for emergency service. A partial ACS program has been in existence in the past here at Dugway but it definitely needed to be reorganized and expanded, adds Cpt. Ware. Presently, we arent concerned with having a large, elaborate system of committees and workers; instead, we want a program that will function well and will fit the needs of the Dugway community. 2-- SEE THE Certificate of Service I |