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Home My WebLink About751034.tiff 4 0 0 k\ Vac HOME RULE CHARTER COMMISSION C� PHONE (303) 353-2212 237 BOX P. O. BOX 758 GREELEY, COLORADO 80631 COLORADO February 25, 1975 Dear The Personnel subcommittee for the Home Rule Charter Commission has scheduled a meeting for 1:30 P.M. , Saturday, March 1, in the Weld County Commissioners ' Board Room, in the new Public Health Building. The duties of this subcommittee are to make a comprehensive study of the employment of the Weld County Government, and to make structural recommendations to the Home Rule Commission. If you or any of your fellow employees have information or knowledge you feel would be beneficial to this subcommittee, please try to attend this meeting. Regards, WELD COUNTY HOME RULE CHARTER COMMISSION %SI el Bob E. White Chairman, Personnel Committee pem 75/CJV CHARTER COMMISSIONERS: J. L."Bud"Johnson,Chairman;Edward L.Dunbar,Vice Chairman; Philip G.Bowles,Secretary Donald E.Altergott—Glen R.Anderson—Walter L.Bain—Charley Baumgartner—Glenn K.Billings--George Brooks—Norman Brown—Chuck Carlson— Nancy C.Clark—Harold Fah ren bruch—Edwin Lesh—John T.Martin—Ruben Schissler—William H.Southard— irrr O OFI-1'CE OF THE WELD COUNTY LIBRARY " ELIZABETH ADCOCK '�'rc_mk owers DIRECTOR It PHONE(303) 352-7691 2227 23RD AVENUE GREELEY,COLORADO 80631 WI I P O • COLORADO March 4, 1975 Mr. Bob E White Chairman, Personnel Committee Home Rule Charter Commission P. 0. Box 758 Greeley, Colorado 80631 Dear Mr. White: On Wednesday, February 26, Ms. Brown met with the staff of Weld County Library to discuss the advantages of transferring to the Colorado State Civil Ser('ice System. At that time, she asked for a vote from the members of the staff either for or against this transfer. We asked for time to make our decision, and in our investigation we found many discrepancies in Ms. Brown's statements. If Ms. Brown was presenting the Colorado State Personnel System (formerly Colorado Civil Service Commission) policies and rules, she made a number of untrue statements. We do not know the source of Ms. Brown's information, but we have checked with the new Colorado Statutes, talked with the Colorado State Library personnel director, and consulted with the personnel department in the Greeley office of the State Highway Department. Since Ms. Brown indicated that Adams County was under civil service, our director called the director of their county library to check on tests, etc. , only to be told that Adams County is not connected with civil service at all. Examples of inaccurate statements concerning the law at'e these: 1. Tests are not graded; they are merely pass or fail. (Tests have numerical scores) 2. Anyone on the eligibility list may be interviewed for a new job. (Only the top-scoring three) 3. Tests are tailored for each specific position. (There is one "professional library assistant" test; others must take the test for clericals) Our confusion, caused by the above inaccuracies in Ms. Brown's presentation to us, was the reason for our inability to vote yes or: no as we were asked. Now we under- stand that Ms. Brown explained the cause of our abstention and failure to attend the meeting as fear for our jobs. This is absolutely not true. There is concern over possible loss of health insurance, social security and/or retirement credit in the event that Civil Service went into effect. 0 0 Mr. Bob E, White 2 We are pleased that Mr. John E. Woods of the State Department of Personnel has been hired to do a study of county personnel standards. We hope he will include the library staff in his interviewing, In conjunction with this study it would be helpful if the Commissioners could tell us how this would affect our health insurance and retirement and what its impact would be on the County financial picture. Sincerely yours, Staff, Weld County Library C/Gc 2/ i - • ir _ „Ac 727,7 . /L L�.�1-17 ,./ / I /f I�� L LL-iii(.J�C;'`-J�i eAeb „de,� CA_C rz , eazi Atr C © o WEST & WINTERS L 1ttoineys at Law WILLIAM L. WEST P. O. BOX 127 JERRY D. WINTERS UNITED BANK BUILDING 1OOO TENTH STREET GREELEY. COLORADO 80631 PHONE 303 - 352-48O5 MEMORANDUM March 12 , 1975 TO: Bud Johnson FROM: William L. West RE : Mini Hatch Act -- restrictions on city employees runing for office . 1. Mini Hatch Act . My original thought was that because there was no author- ization for a Mini Hatch Act type of limitation upon employees , we could not create such a limitation . However, after considerable thought, I believe that such a restriction is a part of the general personnel policy and regulation and that it could be done . 2 . I understand that you also were concerned with whether the charter could require a county employee to resign or at least take a leave of absence before running for a county elective office . I do not believe so . This would deprive an individual of a fundamen- tal constitutional right . That is the right to be a candidate for elective office . You could provide that once elected, an employee would have to resign before taking office . Respectfully , Wm. L . West WLW: gw OFFQL4 OF THE WELD COUNTY LIBRARY ELIZABETH ADCOCK _ ' 11 Bowers DIRECTOR PHONE (303) 352-7691 2227 23RD AVENUE i ti• a GREELEV,COLORAD060631 ti • COLORADO March 4,1975 Mr. Bob E White Chairman, Personnel Committee Home Rule Charter Commission P. 0. Box 758 _ Greeley, Colorado 80631 Dear Mr. White: On Wednesday, February 26, Ms. Brown met with the staff of Weld County Library to discuss the advantages of transferring to the Colorado State Civil Ser4ice System. At that time, she asked for a vote from the members of the staff either for or against this transfer. We asked for time to make our decision, and in our investigation we found many discrepancies in Ms. Brown's statements. If Ms. Brown was presenting the Colorado State Personnel System (formerly Colorado Civil Service Commission) policies and rules, she made a number of untrue statements. We do not know the source of Ms. Brown's information, but we have checked with the new Colorado Statutes, talked with the Colorado State Library personnel director, and consulted with the personnel department in the Greeley office of the State Highway Department. Since Ms. Brown indicated that Adams County was under civil service, our director called the director of their county library to check on tests, etc. , only to be told that Adams County is not connected with civil service at all. Examples of inaccurate statements concerning the law are these: 1. Tests are not graded; they are merely pass or fail. (Tests have numerical scores) 2. Anyone on the eligibility list may be interviewed for a new job. (Only the top-scoring three) 3. Tests are tailored for each specific position. (There is one "professional library assistant" test; others must take the test for clericals) Our confusion, caused by the above inaccuracies in Ms. Brown's presentation to us, was the reason for our inability to vote yes or: no as we were asked. Now we under- stand that Ms. Srown explained the cause of our abstention and failure to attend the meeting as fear for our jobs. This is absolutely not true. There is concern over possible loss of health insurance, social security and/or retirement credit in the event that Civil Service went into effect. Mr. Bob E. White 2 We are pleased that Mr. John E. Woods of the State Department of Personnel has been hired to do a study of county personnel standards. We hope he will include the library staff in his interviewing. In conjunction with this study it would be helpful if the Commissioners could tell us how this would affect our health insurance and retirement and what its impact would be on the County financial picture. Sincerely yours, Staff, Weld County Library 9 � > i mot_':L: :/'c!i rce-alc c./ /%erc7 C ra l/ 7� 4z,--- u�� LA • b1.21 A/ILL e- �� YQ = ) . 2 O 41, HOME RULE CHARTER COMMISSION v PHONE (303) 3532212 EXT. 237 R O. BOX 758 ' GREELEY, COLORADO 80631 COLORADO April 10, 1975 Mr. Al Valenzuela SER - Jobs for Progress, Inc. 770 Grant Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Dear Mr. Valenzuela: Thank you for your letter of March 26, and for your informative inclusions for our consideration. The Weld County Home Rule Charter Commission has divided its study areas in order to achieve the greatest efficiency in our deliberations. The area that you make reference to is covered in our Personnel Committee, chaired by Mr. Bob E. White, and I have therefore referred this matter to him as chairman of that specific committee, for study and recommendations to the Commission. I am sure that he will be in contact with you shortly. Regards, WELD COUNTY HOME RULE CHARTER CCMMISSION J. L. Johnson Chairman pem • CHARTER COMMISSIONERS: J. L. "Bud"Johnson,Chairman:Edward L.Dunbar,Vice Chairman; Philip G.Bowles,Secretary Donald E.Altergott-Glen R.Anderson—Walter L.Bain—Charley Baumgartner—Glenn K.Billings—George Brooks—Norman Brown—Chuck Carlson— Nancy C.Clark—Harold Fahrenbruch—Edwin Lesh—John T.Martin—Ruben Schlssler—William H.Southard— SER-[JOBS FOR PROGRESS,INC. ❑National-y-100d Office/770 Grant St.,Suite 206, Denver,Colorado©80203-1303) 534-6422 RICARDOZAZUETA ;larch 26, 1975 National Director • BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANTONIO MORALES CHAIRMAN EDWARD VALENZUELA . J.TI. •Tolnson, Chairman VICC-CHAIRMAN �' fl liox 758 WILLIAM BO E•SURER Creole-:, CO 30631 WILLIAM 5ECRECECILIA ARMIJO DIRECTOR Dear 'Sr. .Johnson: SARAH BARELA • DIRECTOR - JOE BENITES r,'lB/.Tnb:; Per Progress, Inc. , ' -- the larrest DIRECTOR and only national non-nro it organization providing DANIEL CAMPOS DIRECTOR T;k7n'1OwCr services to disadvantaged nersons with C'1- ELVIA CHAVEZ nhasis on the Snanish-Spoai:±nr, DIRECTOR TONY GALLEGOS DIRECTOR Currently in the state of Colorado, OF? has AMADOR GARCIA nrorxm s in Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, DIRECTOR Poulder, Adams County and a state contract for BERTHA GARCIA • DIRECTOR balance of state operations outside designated I PETE V. VILLA I lime Snonsor jurisdictions. DIRECTOR The S77 regional office based in Denver nro • - vides training and technical assistance to all local fi',Z pror'r'ams plus corn.nityy and nr"enc'r re • - lations development, recruitment, research and re- ferral services. As you lrow, the people most in need of man • - power services are the minorities, moor and the r une:rnloved. It is these same neople that the law ' strives to reach and that SER is dedicated, to • successfully serve. Now that Weld County, as joined the ranks of C.E.T.A. Prime Sponsorshin, SER would like to ex- nress its intent for inclusion in the planning nro- cess for delivery of mannower services under C.E.T.A. for the Weld County area. • • • National Office/9841 Airport Blvd..Los Angeles,Ca 90045 (213)649-1511 • A Non-Profit Corporation Under Section 501 (C)3of Internal Revenue Code i> • d O Pare 2 Si',R would like to meet with you and discuss our request in r 'eater detail at your convenience. Thanking you in advance, we await hearinr; from your office. Sinc n nte, (77—//,,C;••••,ecz Al Valenzuela Rerional Administrator AV:ar • a Hello