Personal Care Attendant Quality
Home Care Workforce Council
One Ashburton Place, Room 1109
Boston, MA  02108 

DEVAL L. PATRICK
Governor

TIMOTHY P. MURRAY
Lieutenant Governor

JUDYANN BIGBY, M.D.
Secretary

Tel.:  617-573-1786
Fax:  617-573-1890
www.mass.gov/eohhs

Personal Care Attendant Quality Home Care Workforce Council
 
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

  Council Meeting – Executive Session

Minutes	June 6, 2008	 	21st floor, Conference Room 3	
 	
CoUNCIL  members in attendance	Joe Bellil, Jean McGuire, Liz Casey, Paul Spooner, Joe Tringali (telephonically)	
 Staff attending	Jack Boesen, Michelle Byrd	
coUNCIL  Chair	 Assistant Secretary Jean McGuire	
Note taker	Michelle Byrd	

The Council’s Executive Session began at 3:15 p.m.  Jean McGuire informed the council that John Jesensky has taken a new position and will not be available to continue his role as negotiator for collective bargaining.  She introduced Doug Shatkin as the new lead negotiator.  Mr. Shatkin is currently the Director of Human Resources for Children, Youth and Families.  Jean McGuire provided an outline of the most recent ANF parameters for collective bargaining to be presented to the Union on Wednesday, July 9th.  The parameters include a 3 year contract with wage increases for each year, a committee to study health insurance options for PCA’s in the first year of the contract with benefits to commence in 2010 and fixed contributions for paid time off.  She informed the council that a further stipulation of these parameters is that they are only available if an agreement can be reached at the bargaining session.  
Council members asked if these latest parameters could be considered the “last best offer” since a specific time-frame for a decision has been added.  Jack Boesen asked if the time frame for keeping the offer open could be extended until Friday, July 11th.  Jean McGuire agreed to contact ANF to ask if the deadline for a decision could be extended to the close of business day on Friday.  The council continued a discussion of whether or not to share some of the data request information with the Union.  Paul Spooner suggested an informal meeting with Rebecca Malberg and Mike Fadel of SEIU prior to the collective bargaining session to share some of the background information that led to some of the proposed parameters.  A meeting was arranged for Noon.  The Council came out of executive session at 4:42 p.m. Paul moved to adjourn.  Liz seconded the motion which passed unanimously.