NAATS Board of Directors Meeting
April 5-6, 2004
Monte Carlo
Las Vegas, NV

Day One -- April 5, 2004 9:00 am -- 5:00 pm

9:00 am -- Call to Order

All Directors present except Phil Brown.

9:10 am -- Mr. Brown present Executive Session

President�s Report

The Membership meeting will be open to members only. Associate members will be allowed in only if the Director approves it.

IOUs from last BOD meeting.

Contingency plans for Alaska. Premature at this time.

Talks with Mr. Washington about FSOSC. Mr. Pike has had a couple of discussions with Mr. Washington about the FSOSC, it might be made into a permanent position. Mr. Washington suggested we keep the two positions like they are presently until a decision can be made. Possibility of having two field facilities perform this, one for back up. Decision to wait until the FSOSC Liaisons arrive to get their input.

Bullets and messages for postcards. Jack O�Connell has provided input. Product on indefinite hold pending more development. Action item Jack O�Connell.

Canvas membership for someone with PR background. Checking with John Dibble to see if we had responses. Action item John Dibble.

Stock footage available for distribution to press. This needs to be done professionally, perhaps need to put together a group. Ron Consalvo, Richard Anderson, and Tom Forte will start the ball rolling. Action item Ron Consalvo.


FacRep/Managers meeting will take place the first week in May, a copy of the message was distributed to the BOD. Ms. Breen and Ms. Kalinowski will work on an agenda identified by Mr. Pike and Mr. Washington. There is no overtime available for travel, west coast and Alaskan members will be allowed to travel Friday. Regional Coordinators will be funded by NAATS but will be given official time. Some confusion with communication coming from FAA regional directors down to NAATS regional directors, some facilities know of the meeting some don�t.

Mr. Pike is working with Hill to get the FAA Administrator to write another letter that she will not outsource air traffic jobs for FY05. Are we getting bang for our buck with our lobbyist? Mr. Pike believes that we are. There is a lot of work going on, no hearings, just meetings. Senators Lautenburg and Murray are the key people to contact if members write letters, the Senate is the leader on this issue. The House side would be Mr. Oberstar, it would be good to keep the House included, but the Senate is the main focus.

Meetings with Mr. Chew and Mr. Washington went well trying to get OASIS money put back into the budget. There will be a reconsideration of the cut by April 13th by the Vice-Presidents. Another meeting on April 20 is probable.

Facility visits will be in Western Pacific Region within the next month or two.

National HR representatives were invited to come to the meeting, but declined. We did end up with one HR representative to talk to folks at the meeting. Ms. Grace Strybing will be here to answer generic questions, nothing specific to Air Traffic RIF negotiations.

Nothing has changed much with coordination with NATCA and PASS, everyone still talking and cooperating. Relationships are very positive.

We have been having bi-weekly telcons with our legal staff in keeping up to date on other union protests/appeals. The relationship with our current A-76 attorneys is productive and we will continue to work with them. The first time a protest would be put forth is after the final PWS is released if determined necessary.

Office Report

Copies of the budget were distributed. The office has been running smoothly, Ms. DeStefano did a great job helping to pull everything together for National Meeting. Ms. Gordon�s husband had a stroke and he is in critical condition, our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.


Update on pay conversion

The conversion and raises should be done by April 18, 2004 at the latest. There has been no response from Mr. Thoman the letter sent by Mr. Pike regarding the delay in the conversion.

Allowing associate members in the meeting.

Motion - Only current regular dues paying members and scheduled speakers be allowed to attend the meeting on April 7 and April 8, 2004. Mr. Brown, second Mr. Puffer. Discussion. In Favor -- Mr. Mounts, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Van Vacter, Mr. Brown, Ms. Holmes, Mr. O�Connell, Mr. Puffer. Opposed -- Mr. Jaffe, Mr. Comisky . Motion passes. 7-2. BOD decision.

Chief Negotiator�s Report

Credit hours grievance has been filed (3/17/04) and Mr. Malon is working on an MOU to give the agency, the draft was given to LR on Friday (4/2/04). If there are any problems in the meantime with local management, refer management to ATX-500 Bill Buck.

Nepotism issue, the agency was supposed to be putting together a workgroup to look at the issue and until such time things were to stay status quo. The agency was advised that there were problems in select regions and they are looking into it. Mr. Malon will advise when he hears more. Action item Scott Malon.

There is a new platform for TFR information that the agency may pick up in the near future which could take over the FSOSC positions.

Traffic Management workgroup, management has been having some telcons surrounding traffic management and would like one member of NAATS to work it out. That changed after Mr. Pike had some discussions with Mr. Washington and now there will be a workgroup of 3 management and 3 union, more formal. Mr. Malon will advise after he receives the formal request.

Motion -- Mr. Jaffe and Mr. O�Connell in addition to Scott Malon will be the NAATS TMU team. Mr. Hoover, second Mr. Mounts. Discussion. Mr. Malon would take the lead. In Favor -- Mr. Mounts, Mr. Hoover, Mr. VanVacter, Mr. Comisky, Mr. Brown, Ms. Holmes, Mr. O�Connell, Mr. Puffer. Opposed -- none. Abstain -- Mr. Jaffe. Motion passes. 8-0-1. BOD Decision.

There may need to be a back room group to help the team with all information. Mr. Malon will get back to the BOD with process. Action item Scott Malon.

Motion -- Each regional director within 30 days will get the name of a TMU representative to Mr. Malon. Mr. Puffer, Second Mr. Brown. Discussion. In Favor -- Mr. Hoover, Mr. VanVacter, Mr. Comisky, Mr. Jaffe, Mr. Brown, Ms. Holmes, Mr. O�Connell, Mr. Puffer. Opposed-Mr. Mounts. Motion passes. 8-1. BOD Decision.

Bargaining Unit Members should not be using CRU-X, until negotiations are complete.

FSDPS transition plan should remain in effect.

Informational briefing on the ATO reorganization was changed from an Article 7 briefing. The agency wants things to remain status quo for now. The NAATS regional directors are supposed to be still working with their 500s even though they are responsible for other lines of business. Just do business as you have been doing it unless there are problems that develop.

Mr. Malon has not been approached on the drug and alcohol testing using hair samples. Mr. Malon will check on setting up the drug and alcohol briefing for the next BOD meeting in SFO this July. Action item Scott Malon.

Open Topics

Mr. Brown is satisfied with briefing on his agenda items of RIF negotiations, update on national grievances, budget breakdown on A-76.

There is concern that Mr. Chew is bypassing the union and establishing a direct link to bargaining unit employees. Mr. Puffer will send Mr. Pike the link in question. Action item Mr. Puffer and Mr. Pike.

OASIS

The executive committee will review reinstatement of the monies taken out of the OASIS deployment. If the agency puts the $4.2 million back into the budget, the deployment will happen as noted on the waterfall. Some of the issues brought up to Mr. Chew to help re-open the discussion were morale, equipment, government furnished equipment, and will it be even possible to reduce the number of facilities with political pressure. This is the only piece of equipment modernization that flight service has. The waterfall should remain in tact. Software updates will continue.

Voice Switch

There will be one voice switch for all three options. There will be a headset tester sent out to each facility in the field. It�s there in case someone gets a tone to see if the headset is working properly.

Open Topics

Future structure of NAATS -- Decision to form a workgroup of Mr. Brown, Mr. VanVacter, Mr. Consalvo, Mr. Forte, and Mr. Hinojosa. Mr. Brown will take the lead. The group will put something together by the BOD meeting in July. Action item Mr. Brown.

BOD policy requiring the President to reside in the Washington area. Tabled pending further information from Legal Counsel.

Press releases. John Dibble has the software and press releases go through him. We have not been successful in the past getting published. Mr. Puffer will get Mr. Pike a form on press releases. Action item Mr. Puffer.

Decision to table the dues withholding issue until the July meeting to make sure everyone transitions into core comp.

Restatement of BOD policy that the new drop period is now effectively November 1st.. It was in the contract that the members ratified.

Day Two

9:00 am -- Call to Order

All directors present.

FSOSC Report

The new TFR platform has looked at but has not been field tested. Could the FSOSC job be done from the field? The only thing moving it out of FAA HQ you�d lose the interaction with airspace and procedures at FAA HQ. Discussion on the ATCSCC as a possible location. Action item Mr. Pike.

FTI Report

Ms. Sterling has been told the liaison position may be changed to subject matter experts instead of union liaison positions. The program office has not been given any direction on deployment with A-76, they are to proceed as scheduled.

Treasurer Report

Some of the budget lines from last year went over the set amount. The new Director�s report package has been developed and will help to standardize the accounts. We have the obligation to provide members with the LM-2 which is also posted on the internet. If a member requests the regional imprest fund reports, they must request it from the director and not NAATS HQ.

Motion - The BOD go into executive session to include regional coordinators. In favor- Mr. Mounts, Mr. Comisky, Mr. O�Connell, Mr. Puffer, Mr. Baker, Ms. Holmes. Opposed -- Mr. Hoover, Mr. VanVacter, Mr. Jaffe. Motion passes 6-3. BOD decision.

Executive Session

Open Topics

RIF negotiations, the team is working on Union 1. The agency was unwilling to provide a proposal other than the RIF order. Mr. Dolan would like to sign a non-disclosure form and be briefed by the MEO Deadline for RIF negotiations appears to be contract award. The next meeting will be in MSP April 28-29, 2004. BOD and membership must be updated continually on these negotiations. Action item Mr. Dolan.

Amend the previous motion below to include BOD approved invited guests. Mr. Hoover, second Ms. Holmes. Discussion. In Favor -- unanimous. Motion amended. BOD decision.

Motion - Only current regular dues paying members and scheduled speakers be allowed to attend the meeting on April 7 and April 8, 2004. Mr. Brown, second Mr. Puffer. Discussion. In Favor -- Mr. Mounts, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Van Vacter, Mr. Brown, Ms. Holmes, Mr. O�Connell, Mr. Puffer. Opposed -- Mr. Jaffe and Mr. Comisky . Motion passes 7-2. BOD decision

Mr. VanVacter would like to discuss realignment of regions and facilities due to the ATO realignment. His proposal is to move some of the great lakes region facilities into the central region and some central region facilities into southwest region. Mr. O�Connell does not see a problem at this time. The BOD needs to think about it now, and maybe bring it up again at the next meeting.

The arbitration committee shall be the President, Chief Negotiator, and Legal Counsel.

Next year�s membership meeting. Discussion on changing from April to October. Changing to October 2004 would not be viable at this late date, it may be looked at in the future.

The regional directors need to advise Mr. O�Connell of who will be attending Oshkosh this year July 26-August 2, 2004. Action item Regional Directors.

Presidential issues, living in DC, cost of living, and status of Mr. Pike after October 1, 2004.

Motion-The BOD requires the president to work out of NAATS HQ. Ms. Holmes. No second. Motion fails.

Motion -- The BOD requires the President to perform duties out of the NAATS HQ office and maintain living quarters in the metro DC area. Mr. Puffer, Second, Mr. Comisky. Discussion. In favor -- Ms. Holmes, Mr. Puffer, Mr. O�Connell. Opposed -- Mr. Comisky, Mr. Mounts, Mr. Hoover, Mr. VanVacter, Mr. Jaffe. Abstaining -- Mr. Brown. Motion Fails 3-5-1.

Open Topics

Mr. Pike working with/for the Union after his term is up.

Motion -- Mark Jaffe will work with Arthur Fox to develop a contract for Wally Pike to be the NAATS lobbyist to be completed no later than the next BOD meeting (July 2004). Mr. VanVacter, Second, Mr. Puffer. Discussion.. In favor- Unanimous. Motion passes. BOD decision.

Will the MEO be able to release the bid information before the actual contract award? The team will check into the legalities and get back to the BOD. Action item Mr. Hoover and Ms. Holmes.

Motion to adjourn Ms. Holmes, Second Mr. O�Connell. Unanimous. All directors present.