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should follow previous policy and raise the
salaries of the Association employees inas­
much as the state employees were receiving
a raise. He moved that the Association em­
ployees, the executive secretary and the
secretary to the executive secrtary, be giv­
en a $20.00 per month increase in wages,
effecitve the first of June, on the same
terms and on the same basis as the state
employees have been granted. Motion car­
ried unanimously.
Item 1 on Agenda: To make Civil Service
Law a part of the State Constitution.
This was discussed at the General Coun­
cil and appropriate action was taken and
resolution was referred to the Board of
Directors. Mr. Erickson moved that it be
referred to the Laws and Legislation Com­
mittee for whatever action might be deemed
appropriate. Motion carried.
Item 2 on Agenda: Increase in disability
benefits under Retirement Law.
Mr. Morelock stated that all whom he
had contacted agreed that it was a satis­
factory piece of legislation. He felt it was
a matter for the Laws and Legislation Com­
mittee to take over. He moved that the
Laws and Legislation Committee obtain a
writer to translate that into legal phrase­
ology and offer it as an amendment to the
Retirement Act. Motion carried.
Item 3 on Agenda: Regarding highway
maintenance and extra gang crew per diem.
Mr. R. M. Smith said he had discussed
the particular problem with the Civil Ser­
vice Director to find out if the Commission
under the Act was obligated to regulate
and decide how much per diem allowance
would be allowed to state employees and
the answer received was that it was not
required of the Civil Service Commission
that it regulate per diem allowance of var­
ious groups. He said the resolution was
worded to cover actual expense while away
from home and that the truth of the mat­
ter is that some are making extra and
others will go into the hole. Regulations
covering the group are tremendously in­
volved. He said he believed the best solu­
tion to the matter would be to defer action
until the Association got squared away as
they were not in a position to go to bat
at this time over an adjustment for more
expense allowance for certain groups and
add more to the state budget. The salary
increase would bring some out of the hole
and that after getting the $20.00 increase
the Association would be leading with the
chin. He recommended that the action be
deferred and let it be brought up again
at the next General Council.
Mr. Chidsey said he would like to point
out that on this per diem for extra gang
and mantenance crews one thing had been
overlooked; that in considering increasing
the per diem of the extra gangs and try­
ing to get it up with the $6.75 man on tem­
porary assignment, it must not be forgotten
that the $3.00 a day on the extra gang is
equivalent to an increase of 50 cents an
hour. The aim in the wage scale is to pay
salaries on a par with like operations in
private industry. Those men do not receive
any pay on the days they do not work. If
we increase that to $6.00 we would be in­
creasing it by $1.00 an hour in which the
State Highway Department and other de­
partments which work men on per diem
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