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KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
BOCC CONFERENCE ROOM
REGULAR MEETING
TUESDAY 10:00 AM OCTOBER 13, 2015
Board members present: Gary Berndt, Paul Jewell
Others: Lisa Young, Mark Cook, Jerry Pettit, Gene Dana, Clayton
Myers
REGULAR MEETING COMMISSIONERS
1) Call to Order – 10:00 AM
2) WCIF – Premera Network Selection – Board decision – HR
Director Young presented a request to approve a Premera
network selection for 2016 benefits. She indicated that
Premera was offering a new network of doctors called the
Prime Network, and that she had done some research to
ensure local providers were included in the network, and
also sent an email out to all employees asking them to
double check that their providers are in the network as
well, with no negative responses. The change comes with a
premium savings of about 6%. The Board approved moving to
the Prime network.
3) Christmas Eve 2015 – Request approval to allow closures –
Director Young requested the ability for Department Heads
and Elected Officials to choose to close their office for
the full day on Christmas Eve. She said policy provided
for a ½ day closure when Christmas Eve falls on a Monday –
Thursday and past practice has been to allow employees to
use leave to take the full day off and allow offices to
close. The Board approved.
4) Policy Update Recommendations – Request to move to Agenda –
Director Young discussed an amendment to the Holiday policy
that would allow holidays to be paid per day rather than by
a set number of hours. This way when employees are
scheduled to work an alternate schedule, such as nine or
ten hour days, their paid holiday covers all scheduled
hours rather than requiring the employee to use banked
vacation to cover any hours over eight. The Board approved
moving the policy to the Agenda.
5) MOU/KCSO - Exempt Overtime Discussion – Auditor Pettit,
Sheriff Dana, and Undersheriff Myers were present to
discuss the use of exempt staff to take overtime details
when non-exempt union employees are not available. The
Auditor said he was okay with the MOU to allow for
flexibility/business need; however, he had concerns
regarding the FLSA, fairness, and the definition of other
“emergencies” that the MOU could potentially apply to.
Commissioner Jewell moved to restart the conversation and
rescind the previous direction granted in the Law & Justice
Study Session on 5/7/14; Chairman Berndt seconded. The
motion passed 2:0. Chairman Berndt said he would work with
those involved.
6) Executive Session – Collective Bargaining Negotiations
RCW 42.30.140 (4)(b) that portion of a meeting during which the governing body is planning or adopting
the strategy or position to be taken by the governing body during the course of any collective bargaining,
professional negotiations, or grievance or mediation proceedings, or reviewing the proposals made in the
negotiations or proceedings while in progress.
The Board entered Executive Session at 10:40 AM to discuss
negotiation strategies. Anticipated length: Ten minutes;
anticipated action: Direction to staff. At 10:50 AM the
Board extended the Executive Session for an additional five
minutes. At 10:55 AM the Board extended the Executive
Session for an additional two minutes. At 10:57 AM the
Board exited Executive Session with direction to staff to
proceed with negotiations.
7) HR Updates – No updates at this time.
8) Other business – None.
9) Adjourn – 10:57 AM
KITTITAS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Lisa Young Paul Jewell, Chairman