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James
Ward Second Vice President
E-mail: Sqd6143@aol.com
The
Superior Officers Association will be going through many
changes over the next few months.
As everyone knows, the County Executive has
authorized an incentive for many of our members to
retire. Over
11% (44) of our Supervisors have decided to take
advantage of this opportunity including myself.
I will be retiring on October 21st.
I will still have the opportunity to write one
more article before I leave so I won’t bore you with a
long good bye at this time.
What
I would like to say in this article is that this is
going to be a great opportunity for many of our
dedicated Supervisors to move up the ranks.
The SOA will only get stronger with plenty of new
members with fresh ideas along with experienced
Supervisors taking over the higher ranks.
Looking at the recent promotion lists you see SOA
Trustees like Ed Perkins and Tommy Cipolla high up on
the lieutenants list with years of experience not only
as Supervisors but also as Union leaders.
Greg Morley, one of our Headquarters Trustees, is
very high on the captain’s list.
These are the type of people we need to continue
to move this job forward in a professional manner while
maintaining the contractual benefits that we all fought
hard to get. Hopefully,
Commissioner Mulvey will be able to promote these
members along with other outstanding Supervisors who
scored high on the lists as soon as possible.
With
all the summer vacations it is very difficult to
schedule meetings to address the various issues that we
have. Fortunately,
we have been able to address the Records Bureau vacation
grievance and as of this writing we have tentatively
reached an agreement and awaiting a formal notification
from the Department.
Hopefully, this will be completed about the same
time this article comes out in print.
Gary and I are scheduling a meeting with Deputy
County Executive, Rob Walker, to discuss our other labor
issues which include the stand by part two grievance and
the contract interpretation on DI’s and above
receiving phone call money and also the DI’s and above
stipend being placed in your base pay.
We are hoping to have this meeting within the
next few weeks.
Stay
safe out there.
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