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D.2
Board of Supervisors
Contra Costa County
Date: September 22 2015 Public Comment
Paul Burgarino, Contra Costa Elections Department, informed us all that today is National Voter Registration
Day. Further information can be found at http://nationalvoterregistrationday.org;
Tiffany Armstrong, and Gayle Walls-Burns, Employment and Human Services Department, spoke on
necessity of overtime work by Eligibility Work Supervisors to serve the public, to address departmental needs
in a time of severe understaffing due to employee turnover;
Felix Huerta, AFSCME Local 512, requested that an overtime exclusion exemption list, a past practice, be
created for the eligibility worker supervisors (letter attached);
Bonnie Eichler, Child Support Specialists provided results of an employee survey on working conditions and
the difficulties and cost of high worker turnover (attached);
Melody Lacy, SEIU 2015, thanked the Supervisors for progress made so far in negotiations and requested a
living wage for in-home care workers;
James Locke, resident of Contra Costa County, requested that euthanizing of animals at the shelters be
scheduled later in the work day to give those seeking to adopt more opportunity to get there;
John Roe, SEIU 2015, expressed his support for a wage increase and health care coverage for In Home
Support Services employees.
THIS IS A MATTER FOR RECORD PURPOSES ONLY
NO ACTION WAS TAKEN
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