1. TuscarawasCounty Chapter 7900 Body Meeting Minutes
6:00 p.m. 11/20/2012 United Steelworkers Hall, New Philadelphia
Officers:
President: Ronnie Beitzel
Vice-President:
Secretary/Treasurer: David Barnhart
EBOARD: Gabe Fincher, Greg Wallace, Phil Wright
Delegates: Art Fonderist, ODOT Assembly, D-5 Council
Chrystal Champagne-Swan, ODJFS Assembly
JD Marlatt, Alternate ODOT Assembly
Phil Wright, Alternate D-5 Council
Ronna Harding, Alternate ODJFS Assembly
Joel Peterson, Local Government
Ronna Harding, TuscarawasCounty AFL-CIO Labor Council
Staff Rep: Peggy Tanksley
State Board: JeenaCampolo
Ronnie Beitzelchaired the meeting. David Barnhart was asked to take roll call, Ronnie
declared a quorum.
Secretary’s Report: David Barnhart read the minutes from the Sept.2012 meeting.
Minutes approved as read.Phil Wrightmade a motion to accept the secretary’s report,
Greg Wallaceseconded, motion carried.
Treasurers Report: Dave Barnhart sent out the third quarter report. Since the last
meeting, the only expense was a $59 charge that was automatically withdrawn from our
account for copies of the cancelled checks of the last three years for an audit requested by
Karla Cobel, Comptroller OCSEA.There needs a vote to reimburse Phil Write and Dave
Barnhart for shipping expenses that have occurred since that last meeting for employee
information and audit material to OCSEA Headquarters in Westerville. As of today, there
is a balance of $6,378.97in the savings account and $1,011.22in the checking account.
Dave reported that all bills are paid.
A motion was presented to reimburse Phil and Dave for chapter expenses by Carl Miller.
Greg Wallace seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Art Fondriestmade a motion to accept the treasurers report and Carl Miller seconded the
motion, motion carried.
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2. Old Business:
The new parts room vendor is not working out. Many problems have been experienced
and possible schedule changes for some ODOT staff to accommodate the vendor’s
schedule. Further discussion held.
Ronnie called for a recess in the meeting at 6:20 pm for the election of chapter officers.
The election of officers was held by Randy Billman and James Wortman and the results
are as follows:
Nominations for President: Greg Wallace and Ronnie Beitzel, both have accepted.
No other nomination. Ronnie Beitzel was elected as President.
Nominations for Vice President: Phil Wright and Greg Wallace both have accepted.
No other nominations. Phil was elected as Vice President
After an agreement to combine the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, Dave Barnhart was
nominated. Dave accepted. No other nominations, Dave elected as Secretary/Treasurer by
acclimation.
Nominations for E-Board: Gabe Fincher, Phil Wright, Jim Wortman, Art Fondriest, all
have accepted. No other nominations, Phil, Art and Gabe were elected.
Due to Phil being elected to a second office, he requested to relinquish his
assignment as E-Board Member. President Ronnie Beitzel appointed Greg Wallace to E-
Board. Greg Accepted. The new E-board now stands as Gabe Fincher, Art Fondiest and
Greg Wallace.
Nominations for Dist. 5 Representative: Greg Wallace, Art Fondriest, Phil Wright. All
have accepted. Greg, Art and Phil was elected by acclimation
Nominations for ODOT Assembly: Art Fondriest, Randy Billman. All have accepted.
No other nominations. Randy was elected; Art will be the alternate by
acclimation.
All elected officers were sworn in by JeenaCampolo.
Ronnie called the meeting out of recess at 6:55 pm
Staff Rep Report: JeanaCampolo
Mentioned that she is following the possibility of the state pushing a right to work issue
and will report to the chapters of anything that is reported from the District 5 meetings.
Jeana also reiterated and relayed additional information contained within New Business.
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3. New Business:
From ODOT Assembly – Art Fondriest reported that every district chapter will be asked
to donate $100 for the fight against privatization and promote roadside awareness.
Further discussion was held.
Due to the new Kronos timekeeping system, the county managers are doing the time
keeping instead of the clerks. There should be grievances filed to stop this practice and
help keep the clerks jobs. Further discussion held.
Prisoners are used for roadside clean up taking jobs away from county crews. It was
mentioned to increase community involvement and not all people participating are from
the prison population. Further discussion held.
It has been reported that ODOT District 11 management want to use shifts for weekend
storm events. This method will not include a rotation as the seniority list would do. The
management should be reminded to stick with current contract language. Weekday shifts
to start December 3rd. Further discussion held.
Art requested that chapter meeting frequency to possibly six times a year instead of the
current four times a year. Dave reminded the committee the reason we do not usually
hold meeting through the winter month, i.e. December through March, is employee shifts
and possible winter events. Jeana concurred that other chapters withhold meetings from
December through March as well. A motion was raised to begin holding chapter meetings
every other month starting with the March 2013 meeting and ending November 2013.
Dave mentioned that he will send out one reminder for the March meeting and state that
all meetings will be held every other month. Jeana suggested using the OCSEA website
to schedule meetings and direct chapter members to use the website to keep informed.
Dave made the motion to change meetings to every other month beginning in March
2013 with the understanding of withholding meetings during winter months. Carl
seconded the motion. Motion carried.
State Board Report: No report
Next meeting will be Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 6:00 pm.
Ronniemade a motion to adjourn the meeting, Carlseconded the motion, motion carried.
Respectfully submitted,
David Barnhart, Secretary/Treasurer
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