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Nov

25

Overtime Call-In System Returns 0

Effective December 1 with the 7-3 shift, we will be returning to the call-in system for overtime. If you are interested in working overtime, call into the Jail (617.635.1100 x6868) or simply dial x6868 from any Jail telephone. You will be asked to leave your name, desired shift (calls accepted only one shift in advance), and a telephone number where you can be reached. Overtime will be awarded to call-in volunteers first and by inverse order of overtime hours worked or by seniority of hours are equal. The list will be purged quarterly unless changed by mutual agreement by the Sheriff’s Department and JOEASC. If opportunities exceed the number of volunteers, we will be calling the overtime list until we have exhausted it. If there are no takers then the draft list will be utilized. Exemptions from a draft can be utilized so please review the Draft and Overtime Procedure that is posted on the union bulletin board. This posting also includes the times to call for overtime and identifies when return calls will be made.

We hope that this new procedure will make working overtime more convenient for our members while providing them an opportunity to skip a draft if the burden of staying is just too great.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask myself or anyone on the negotiations team (Rossi, Mills, Chan, DeRosa) questions regarding this matter.

Thank you.

-Stan

Aug

3

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The website has undergone an upgrade to fix some technical issues we had. In the near future I will be adding some recent news along with some further updates. Stay tuned for more in the next few weeks..

Aug

3

Proposal would transfer sheriff workers to state: Plymouth sheriff likes Patrick’s plan 0

By TOM BENNER - Patriot Ledger State House Bureau
BOSTON - Sheriff departments - one of the few remaining vestiges of county government in Massachusetts - would come under state control under Gov. Deval Patrick’s newly released budget plan.
Patrick wants the state to take over seven county sheriff departments - including the ones in Norfolk and Plymouth counties - that still operate independently.
Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald, whose department has been bailed out by the state financially, hailed the proposal.
‘‘It’s going to take the uncertainty out of the budget process,’’ he said. ‘‘The certainty that it’s going to give us as managers is very big, and the efficiencies that we realize by coming under the state system are going to be very real.’’

Seven other sheriff departments in Massachusetts already function as an arm of state government.
Under Patrick’s plan, which needs legislative approval, the state would take over payroll, health and retirement costs for the sheriff departments in Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk counties. That would make those working in the sheriff departments state employees.
The state also would take over sheriff-department revenues that help pay to run county jails, such as the deeds excise tax on real estate transactions.
With receipts from that tax accounting for up to one-third of total sheriff department revenues, state funding will allow for more predictable planning, McDonald said. In addition, benefit and retirement costs are cheaper under the larger state systems, he said.
Under the plan, sheriffs would continue to be elected and would still manage their own budgets, but they would face increased oversight by state officials.
A frequent McDonald critic, however, said the proposal woult not reduce patronage hiring in those departments.
‘‘It’s still an elected office,’’ Plymouth County Commissioner Timothy McMullen said. ‘‘The sheriffs are always going to control jobs.’’
Plymouth County Treasurer Thomas O’Brien worries that county employees will see their health care co-payments double under the state system.
Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti said the plan would ‘‘certainly create a more fiscally predictable system for us, so we’re able to know how much money we can spend in any given year.’’
Some see the plan as ushering in the end of county government, which was abolished in 1997 in all but seven Massachusetts counties.

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