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NAATS Business
Meeting
The Clarion Hotel
Fort Worth, TX
October 7, 2002-October 9, 2002
DAY ONE-October
7, 2002
9:00 am -- Call To Order
Simpson fell while he was in Ohio and will not be attending this meeting,
Darrell Mounts is covering for North West Mountain with full voting rights
as agreed between McLennan and Pike. O'Connell is absent.
President�s Report
A-76 - Discussion on next ad and target audience.
Congressional Activity --
Pay and Work Rules -- Implement work rules immediately, the Administrator�s
office should let Pike know by Monday afternoon. Printing could actually
take months, the contract would be effective the day it�s signed, probably
the first pay period in January. Hoover will start the list comparing the
old contract to the new one, Dolan will get together a few directors
to proof read the TAU�s. Agency and NAATS want 60 days to train
advocates. Hoover will feather out:
Agency�s Obligations
- Negotiations
- Money, travel, per diem
Union Timeline Requirements
Other significant Articles.
External Union Relations -- NATCA is concerned about the A-76. They do have
ideas, but are not ready to act yet. PASS was originally in on the ad, but
opted out. NAATS is continuing to work closely with both unions.
Real Estate Report -- Looking at properties in Old Town Alexandria, nothing
really what NAATS wants at this point. The current appraisal of current
building is $300,000.00, paid $230,000.00 in '93. Keep an eye on current
market and situation, if something comes up the real estate agents will let
the national office know.
Senior FAA relations -- Still have not been able to get into see the new
Administrator, no significant problems with Air traffic or ATS. No word on
the new COO.
Discussion around the chief negotiator and office administrator being kept
in the loop, i.e., being included on BOD telcons. Discussion on policy.
There will be a staff meeting by Dolan to help educate the new Liaisons
and remind the old Liaisons of their responsibility.
Discussion about finalizing next ad and meeting timeframes.
Runway Safety Program Briefing
John Chadwick and Inez Kennedy briefed the board on updates to the runway
safety program. The Office of Runway Safety is looking for NAATS
representative on the program. Pike will work with AT-1 to get a full
time representative/liaison. Every runway incursion out there is due
to human error, spent lots of money studying the human factors end and still
have no answers. Roughly 60 percent of all runway incursions involve general
aviation.
Chief Negotiator�s Report
Liaison reports have been distributed in a timely manner. The Board of
Directors had no questions about the reports. SUA/ISE will be a separate
discussion. TFR information is being sent out to the directors and the
directors are being asked to distribute to the Facreps with web sites. Are
these web sites supposed to be used for briefing? Dolan with check
with FSOSC on the web sites and how they are to be used. Does ATC
authorized mean in contact with ATC or a waiver need to operate in that
airspace? - Dolan to check.
Voice Switch Human Factors Team needs to replace a member. Pike
recommended John Dibble to fill the slot, Hoover second, vote unanimous.
CRU-X -- There was a memo sent out from FAA Headquarters that said all
unions had agreed upon CRU-X issues, not true, NAATS has still not signed
the MOU. Dolan will finish it up and let the BOD know when it�s complete.
Breen would like to give the CRU-X representative duties to the new ATX
Liaison, because it was in her line of business.
Government Charge Cards -- Article 9 notification of some changes to the
program. They briefed all the unions, but not listed as an official Article
9. Dolan waiting for the agency to contact him for an official article 9.
The ratification of the work rules will cover some of the issues.
Staffing -- Dolan is setting up a meeting with ATX to get a briefing on the
package sent out regarding the staffing standard and the voice switch
program. Pike got a commitment from AT-1 that the 300 cuts in air traffic
services will not be coming out of flight service bargaining unit numbers.
The cuts should come out of overhead positions. The staffing standard is
used as a guide only, there is no way to enforce it. Eastern region has a
list of every facility, what positions are filled and when people are
eligible for retirement. The rest of the directors should try to get that
same report. Make sure the training slots are filled in every region. The
ATX liaison will get a list of slots at the academy for FY03 to each region
out to the directors.
A-76 -- Dolan had a meeting with AT-2 on getting a NAATS A-76 Liaison to the
agency�s work group or what is called the A-76 Integrated Product Team (IPT).
The BOD will get a name for the liaison position as soon as possible. NAATS
needs to make sure people know about the "right of first refusal" before
they start working on the A-76 process. Dolan will try to have a Union 1
proposal for the BOD by the end of this meeting.
Day Two -- October 8, 2002
9:00 am -- Back In Session
O'Connell now present.
Budget Discussion
Wesselhoft (outgoing treasurer) and Lackman (incoming treasurer) were both
present and handed out the financial status report and 2003 budget draft.
Discussion regarding line items in budget.
Wesselhoft went over the budget for CY2003 line by line.
NAATS should be funding travel for the President to travel to all user
group forums, Holmes would like to see NAATS fund the President and not ask
the FAA to pay. General agreement.
MOTION - Increase the imprest fund base by $250.00 per region per month,
increase the per member rate by a $1.00 per month. Effective November 1,
2002, regional imprest will be $750.00 base and $4.50 per member, per month.
Motion by Jaffe, Second by Baker. Vote -- All in favor. Motion passes.
Discussion- With all that is going on right now (new contract/pay/A-76) the
directors need to get out to the facilities more often. With the FAM program
still not in effect, the increased cost of travel and frequency of visits to
facilities, and equipment costs there is an increase to the cost of doing
business.
Update On Pay Rules
Pike spoke to ALR-1 and the only line of business absent from the meeting
this morning to see if the agency would sign the pay rules was Air Traffic.
The agency is just about ready to sign the contract, pending the approval
from Air Traffic. It would become effective the first pay period in January.
BOD discussion surrounding the training of the FacReps on the new contract,
Pike requested that the training hours for the FacReps be used in this
calendar year and the training hours for CY2003 stay in tact. This would
allow training of the FacReps in the first/second week of December. Possibly
do a split of two training sessions east coast/west coast. East coast
possibly Cleveland or Baltimore in the first week of December, west coast
training in Las Vegas the second week of December. Dolan will check
his schedule to see if he can accommodate the Alaskan region separately.
Holmes will handle the arrangements for the east coast training and Mounts
will handle the arrangements for the west coast.
Budget Continued
Discussion of imprest fund records.
MOTION-The regional coordinators stipend be 50 percent of the directors
stipend. Motion-Mounts, Second-Baker. Vote -- For --Terry, Holmes, Baker,
Mounts Against-Jaffe, O�Connell Abstain-Stafford - Not Voting-Hoover,
Comisky. Motion failed.
Discussion -- This might not be the right time for any increase to stipends.
The reason Mounts would like to see the increase, is not for the increase
itself but the premise that the coordinators are getting less than half of
what the directors get.
Trip to FTW AFSS to see SUA/ISE and TAP / Lunch
Budget Continued
Wesselhoft would like to see some kind of compensation for the time/annual
leave that a treasurer for NAATS has to spend doing union business. We as a
union have to communicate better with the treasurer, getting them minutes
from the BOD meetings and any financial decisions made by the BOD. Look at
the possibility of using official time from other union officials to help
defray some of the official time problems.
MOTION -- Award John Wesselhoft a $250.00 service award for his years of
dedication as the NAATS national treasurer. Motion by Hoover, Second by
Baker. Vote -- All in Favor. Motion passes.
Make a new category for training 637.3 Training for National Contract
$80,000.00, this is mostly a one-time expense and is necessary. Who will
make the call on training national officers? Pike will make the
decision on the training that comes up once in a while, to see if funding is
available and directors are interested.
MOTION -- The union will pay up to $200.00 actual travel expenses for all
members attending the national convention that are properly vouched. Motion
by Hoover, Second Stafford. Vote - All in Favor. Motion passes.
Discussion -- Leave a higher amount in the National Meeting budget to cover
this expense. Incentive to get people to go to the convention.
MOTION -- All employees of NAATS will receive the government cost of
living increase provided they have been employed by the union for at least
one year. Motion by Hoover, Second by Comisky. Vote -- In favor -- Terry,
Hoover, Comisky. Apposed -- Holmes, Jaffe, Baker, O�Connell, Mounts,
Stafford. Motion Fails.
MOTION -- All employees of NAATS will receive the government cost of living
increase. Motion by Jaffe, Second O�Connell. Vote -- In Favor- Terry, Jaffe,
Holmes, Baker, Comisky, O�Connell, Mounts, Stafford. Abstain-Hoover. Motion
Passes.
Action Item Administrator-Make sure the calendars/planners are ordered
for distribution to the members at Christmas.
MOTION -- The NAATS Board of Directors approves a $300.00 Christmas Bonus
to be given Shirley Gordon and a $150.00 Christmas Bonus to Denise
DeStefano. Motion by Hoover, Second by Holmes. Vote -- All in Favor. Motion
Passes.
The budget is going to show a big deficit this year due to the national
training bill of approximately $80,000, with the new contract being
implemented. Again, this is extremely necessary and is mostly non-recurring.
Out years should balance expense.
Day Three --
October 9, 2002
Back In Session
Discussion surrounding pay, Hoover
would like some clarification on the OMB holding the FAA to the 5.5% raise.
Need to establish what our positions/bottom lines are. Hoover would like to
call executive session or just the negotiating team members before lunch.
ULP�s filed against the Union that should be sent to the national office
through the regional director. We need a process to handle ULP�s to make
sure the national office is in the loop and our attorney is brought in.
General agreement, Pike will notify membership that ULP's must be
reported to the appropriate regional director who will then forward to NAATS
HQ as necessary.
Discussion of BOD policy on votes concerning abstentions.
Public Relations Team (PRT)
Dibble reported out on the activity from last quarter, there were
approximately 4800 pilots that went through the booth at Oshkosh. He has put
out several press releases but has no idea how many actually get picked
up/published. The hits to the web site after a press release increase to
around 400 a day. Currently running around 150 hits to the web site daily.
There is a specific web site address now that will bring people interested
in A-76 right to the information.
www.naats.org/a76.htm.
PRT went to Oshkosh and AOPA fly-in, did not go to NBAA. Mounts will be
going to AOPA at the end of this month with Mike Puffer. Dibble has prepared
a power point presentation on A-76 he will finish making some changes and
send copies out to the BOD. Hoover would like to know are we getting support
from the pilot community? Should we be spending out money and energy
elsewhere?
Dibble would like the BOD�s input on PRT, do they want a PRT, what does the
BOD want to see PRT do. Maybe the money from PRT should be put into mailings
and other ways to get our message out to the flying public. Can NAATS HQ
pick up some of the duties that Dibble does now? Pike doesn�t see a problem
with NAATS HQ picking up some of the duties (support for airshows, take over
the software for the press releases, and order/keep the handouts for the
shows at HQ). Mounts will assume the AOPA meeting duties with support from
HQ.
The BOD does not want to continue the PRT in its current form. Dibble
would keep the duties of the web master.
MOTION -- The union approves a $250.00 service award for John Dibble for
his years of dedication as the NAATS PRT representative. Motion by Hoover,
Second by O�Connell. Vote -- In Favor-Unanimous. Motion passes.
Budget Continued
Discussion on line items in budget.
Final on the budget for CY2003 total expenses $988,312.00 total income
$900,159 for a net loss of $88,153.
OASIS
Oasis budget got cut $5 million this year, we could see a gap (approximately
6 months) in installations after CXO#14. The agency will install 12 systems
this fiscal year. The next buy after CXO would be another 24 sites in the
next fiscal year. The other problem is OASIS is running on Windows NT which
Microsoft no longer supports they will have to migrate to a new software
program (Microsoft 2000 or their newest platform). It will be a couple of
months before Harris gets a handle on the systems and delays, worse case
scenario is a delay in installation of 6 months. Barnes feels OASIS is
moving along with some good improvements it�s just the budget constraints
that are holding things up. The software updates are coming out with some
great new products. The $5 million looks like it will be added to the OASIS
budget by FY2004, ARS is trying to take it from other programs. The
directors (except WP) need to get Barnes a point of contact from the
facilities who want to be designated the OASIS point of contact for the
individual facilities at least up until the installation of CXO.
NAATS has already negotiated the number of consoles at facilities and there
should be no change in the number of consoles. The agency has to abide by
the MOU.
Contract Team Session
Open Topics
Drug and alcohol representative will be selected at a later date, after it�s
posted on the web site and resumes are submitted.
Stafford read a letter from Eli Morrissey regarding the newsletter. There
was a discussion about the directors getting better about their timeliness.
The BOD all agreed that Eli does a great job and the timeliness of the
newsletter as a whole has gotten much better.
The NAATS e-mail has still had some problems, security, and viruses are
being sent through the server. Glowacki wants to shut the email system down.
The BOD concurs to shut the email down, Pike will talk to Glowacki to
get it done.
Baker wants to see a Vice-Presidents
position created to help with the national office duties. The constitution
would have to be changed and there would be a need to find official time.
Pike is not sure if this workload would keep up, if it does, he would
appreciate help. He (Pike) also thinks this individual would have to be
elected and be in the national office full time. The constitutional re-write
committee needs to take a look at the positions as well.
O�Connell has some slots left from the Karrass training, wanted to know if
any of the other directors wanted to pay for any. The price $495.00 per
person.
MOTION -- Any regional director that chooses not to stay for the entire
BOD meeting will reimburse national for the last days per diem and previous
nights hotel room. Motion by Hoover, Second by Mounts. Vote -- In Favor
Terry, Hoover, Holmes, Jaffe, O�Connell, Mounts, Stafford Abstain-Baker
Absent-Comisky. Motion passes.
Discussion -- This would not be applied if someone has an emergency. The
directors represent the members and should stay for the entire meeting. One
of the problems we could encounter is there may not be a quorum and business
would come to a halt. BOD policy states that an individual should make the
meeting their priority and if there is an emergency a regional coordinator
can take over. Have the minutes of the meeting reflect who is in attendance
throughout the meeting, not just at the end.
Update-NAATS HQ been contacted by WTOP (radio station in Washington
DC) and also the Washington Times as the result of the ads in the
Congressional papers today.
Update-FacRep training on the new contract will take place in Ft.
Worth for the east coast and possibly for the west coast as well.
Mounts is still going to check out the room rates in Las Vegas, and will get
back to the BOD.
SUA/ISE -- Kirk Leander from FTW AFSS came into brief the BOD. The SUA/ISE
is ready to go to any facility that has a computer and is tied into the ADTN
network can access the download from the web site 10.40.156.11 by next week.
The computer needed to run this program is a Pentium II, 400 mhz, 32 meg
ram, and 1 gb hard drive space. It is only available on ADTN 2000, you
cannot get it otherwise for security reasons. There is a training program on
the web site.
Selection of the SUA/ISE chi team (5 people). Pike recommended and the
BOD approved Kirk Leander FTW AFSS, Curt Lasley DCA AFSS, Chuck Kuennan RNO
AFSS, Derek Buchanen BNA AFSS, and Oscar Hinojosa SJT AFSS.
Union Name Change-FAA credit union would help design a new logo. Is this the
time to do it? What do we need to do in terms of the membership? This would
have to be done as a constitutional amendment, the constitutional committee
will handle it.
Hoover requested names and addresses of Southern members to perform
union business. Headquarters agreed to provide to directors for their
regions. May not be used for elections. Action Administrator.
The rationale for the new contract will be done shortly, certainly by the
facrep training. Action Dolan/Holmes.
The changes to the constitution need to be addressed and should be done
shortly. Action Holmes.
Holmes, Terry, Baker, and Jaffe volunteer to form the re-write on the
constitution committee with Holmes as leader, she will select two others.
BOD meeting times/locations cy2003-January 13-17, 2003 Washington, DC
April 21-25, 2003 San Antonio, TX
July 14-18, 2003 Minneapolis, MN
October 06-10, 2003 Washington, DC
Board of Directors at the end of this meeting were Terry, Hoover, Holmes,
Jaffe, Baker, O�Connell, Mounts, and Stafford.
5:00 pm
Motion to adjourn Jaffe, Second Terry, all in favor, meeting adjourned. |