1 1 2 STATE OF NEW YORK : ONONDAGA COUNTY LEGISLATURE 3 COUNTY OF ONONDAGA 4 ------------------------------------------- 5 In the Matter of the 6 Terms and Conditions of Employment for Bargaining Unit Represented by CSEA Local 1000 AFSCME, AFL-CIO 7 for the Calendar Year 2015 8 ------------------------------------------- 9 PUBLIC HEARING in the above matter, conducted at the Onondaga County Court House Legislative 10 Chambers, 401 Montgomery Street, 4th Floor, Syracuse, New York before JOHN F. DRURY, CSR & 11 RPR, Notary Public in and for the State of New York, on February 10, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. 12 ONONDAGA COUNTY LEGISLATORS PRESENT: 13 DIST. NAME 14 1st BRIAN F. MAY 15 2nd JOHN C. DOUGHERTY (3rd TIM BURTIS - Absent) 16 4th JUDITH A. TASSONE 5th KATHLEEN A. RAPP 17 6th MICHAEL E. PLOCHOCKI 7th DANNY J. LIEDKA 18 8th CHRISTOPHER J. RYAN 9th PEGGY CHASE 19 10th KEVIN A. HOLMQUIST 11th PATRICK M. KILMARTIN 20 12th DAVID H. KNAPP 13th DEREK T. SHEPARD, JR. 21 14th CASEY E. JORDAN 15th J. RYAN McMAHON, II, Chairman 22 16th MONICA WILLIAMS 17th LINDA R. ERVIN 23 Clerk of Legislature: Deborah T. Maturo 24 Reported By: 25 John F. Drury, CSR, RPR Court Reporter 471-7397 2 1 2 INDEX TO WITNESS 3 WITNESS PAGES 4 PETER TROIANO Ond Cnty Exec Ofc 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 Chairman 2 THE CHAIRMAN: Good evening, again. 3 We now will call to order a public 4 hearing to determine terms and 5 conditions of employment for members of 6 bargaining unit Civil Service Employees 7 Association, CSEA, Local 1000, AFSCME, 8 AFL-CIO, for the Calendar Year of 2015. 9 The interested parties shall be 10 required to explain their position with 11 respect to a fact finding report and 12 recommendations issued by the New York 13 State Public Employment Relations Board. 14 Was the notice provided to the CSEA 15 and the office of the County Executive? 16 THE CLERK: It was. 17 THE CHAIRMAN: Was notice provided 18 to the media? 19 THE CLERK: It was. 20 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Is there 21 a representative from the CSEA wishing 22 to speak? Is there a representative 23 wishing to speak on behalf of the County 24 Executive's position? Peter. 25 MR. PETER TROIANO: Good evening 4 1 Troiano 2 again, Mr. Chairman, members of the 3 Legislature. I'm here to present on the 4 recommendations of the County Executive, 5 with respect to the terms and conditions 6 of the employment for the bargaining 7 unit represented by the Civil Service 8 Employees Association, CSEA Local 1000, 9 AFSCME, AFL-CIO, for the Calendar Year 10 2015. 11 The County repeats and reaffirms all 12 the points made during the 2014 hearing. 13 For 2015, the County Executive 14 recommends that the legislature resolve 15 to provide the CSEA members to be 16 effective with the first full pay period 17 after January 1st, 2015, a 2.25 percent 18 wage increase, with retroactive payment 19 of base wages from the beginning of the 20 first full pay period of 2015, with the 21 remaining pay periods of 2015, and 22 includes the pay periods of 2016 through 23 the implementation of the wage increase, 24 and no other changes. 25 In addition to the retroactive 5 1 Troiano 2 payments, members so affected will have 3 -- will receive credit for the wage 4 increases in terms of pension 5 calculations and other things related to 6 salaries. 7 These recommended wages are the same 8 wages that were recommended by the State 9 appointed fact finder and the Union 10 Negotiating Committee had agreed to in 11 November of 2015. These wages are fair 12 to employees, because they provided an 13 adjustment to wages that is both 14 reasonable and equitable. Thank you. 15 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Is there 16 anyone from CSEA wishing to speak? Is 17 there anyone else wishing to speak? 18 Thank you for participation in the 19 debate. The public hearing on terms and 20 conditions for the 2015 CSEA contract is 21 to be closed. 22 At this point, having heard from the 23 parties of the three public hearings, I 24 move that this body be adjourned. 25 Please note a special session 6 1 Chairman 2 scheduled for tomorrow, February 11th, 3 at 1:00 p.m. here in the Legislative 4 Chambers. Among the other things is 5 that the County Legislature is making 6 clear our actions on the terms and 7 conditions of employment with the CSEA 8 for the years 2013, 2014 and 2015. 9 Meeting of the Ways and Means 10 Committee is scheduled to be held. 11 This hearing is now closed. 12 * * * * 13 C E R T I F I C A T E 14 This is to certify that I am a Certified 15 Shorthand Reporter and Notary Public in and 16 for the State of New York, that I attended and 17 reported the above entitled proceedings, that I 18 have compared the foregoing with my original 19 minutes taken therein and that it is a true 20 and correct transcript thereof and all of the 21 proceedings had therein. 22 _______________________ 23 John F. Drury, CSR 24 25 Dated: February 17, 2016