Bargaining Committee
This fall, the Office of Human Resources and the Douglas County
Federation began monthly contract negotiation meetings with
representatives from several areas of the classified staff and
administration. Members of our bargaining team are listed below:
- Brenda Smith
President, DCF
- Tiffany Osland
VP, DCF
- Annette Mertens
Dispatcher, Transportation
- Suzanne Kruger
Counseling Secretary
- Mary Heins
EA, PGE
- Pat Laughlin
Operations and Maintenance
- Tara Cyboron
Child Care
Our first task was to review, organize and research contract
areas utilizing legal support documents, as well as the Classified
Support Staff Information Guide. From that point, the bargaining
committee uses the Interest Based Bargaining (IBB) process
throughout negotiations. We are approximately half way through the
language of our new contract and expect to add more meeting times
and dates in the coming months in order to complete our task by the
end of the year.
Our teams are working diligently to develop language, address
issues and cooperatively work out the details of our first
classified contract. We are all committed to developing the best
contract for the classified staff and one that expresses the
on-going cooperative relationship between the DCF and the DCSD. |