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Show Loble Recommends Employee Appeals Board Revamping City Manager Arlene Loble told the Record this week she is recommending the struct- ure of the City's five-member Appeals Board be altered, somewhat, so the for some reasop or pother most have eventually either, resigned or have been' terminated. 'Under Loble's proposed restructuring, the Boafd would consist of the two Council members, one supervisor sup-ervisor or department head, and two workers elected at large. Each time the Board is called to hear a grievance, the two rank and file members will be selected randomly from four names. The four potential board members will be elected by employees of four city departments. Those four departments are: public works, police, community development and general government and leisure services. ser-vices. Each department will have its own representative to the Appeals Board who will be elected by members of that department. The two ..employees selected to sit on .."the Board will not be , associated with the same department as the aggrieved employee. The supervisor or department depart-ment head who sits on the Board will be elected by fellow department heads and supervisors. According to the City Manager most municipal employees are concentrated in the Public Works Department Depart-ment which gives them the votes to elect two representatives representa-tives from their department. "Under the new ordinance each department will be guaranteed a representative who they know and trust on the Board," Loble said. The City Manager said additionally she will ask Board members to act as an advisory panel on employee relation matters and in salary negotiations. greviances of municipal employees em-ployees may be "more fairly and equitably dealt with." The Board was set in place last summer to allow 28 Public Works Department employees to appeal their mass termination following a walk out in protest of a perceived breakdown in salary sal-ary negotiations with the City Manager. The Appeals Board is required by state statute which prescribes it consist of two members of the City Council and three city employees x elected at large by their fellow workers. When the Board concluded its hearings last summer, its members voted three to two to reinstate the fired workers with back pay. The two members of the City Council voted not to reinstate . the workers. The City Manager subsequently appealed that decision to the City Council. Following Lobel's appeal the Council agreed to reinstate the workers, without back pay, if they unconditionally accepted the terms of the City Manager's proposed wage package. Additionally the workers would undergo a four week suspension period beginning the following day. Most of the workers accepted accept-ed the compromise offer but |
