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.... K 15 OSEA Board of Directors Meet; Policies Discussed; Plan Program Senator Hotel—December 18, 1948 Salem, Oregon The meeting was caHOS t o ordenE t 9:00 A.M., by P resident Loren R. White. The roll was called by the Secretary, and the folio ^ ^ ^ members of the Board were present: Loren R. White, ■Présicfent; Bjarne Erickson, Jr. Past President; P. M. Brandt, Vice Presi dent; .Mary LaugSïï^pecfetarÿ-Trëas^-: urer; Virgil G. O’Neil, Public Relations Director; Floyd Query, Laws and Leg islation' iMrM m D. H. Cameron, Di rector f || District No. 2; J. W. Vaughn, Director of district No. 3; S. Paul Jones, Director of District No. 4; C. L. Wagner, Director of District No. 5"; L. A. McCoskrie, Director Of District No. 6; also present' were J. E. Morelock, Chairman of Retirement Committee; Forrest V. jStëw àrtj Executive Secre tary; Jean Brimacombe, Administra tive Secretary and Lois M anning^Ste- ïhogrçfpher. The minutes of the>:iast meeting were read and approved. Items on the Agenda: ^ C S 1. Tax Commission Auditors. Mr. White asked whether there should be action taken to prevent additional or ~.new?l B f i W BPn :0Fywhether the pres ent law should be repealed before the expiration date which is June 30, 1949. Mr. Erickson m oved, that the Asso ciation take no action with respect to securing repeal of the law, since it would automatically expire at the end of the biennium, but that the Associa t i o n be alert to stop anyI similar ..law fcieingI enacted. Moti on CS 3. Veterans Preference. Mr. Stewart said the.^ Civil Service^ Act prefer en ce;t o îS K e or ten per cent on entrance examinations and subsequent jja r ^ ndment?* allows five or ten per cent on first promo tional examination for veterans of World War II who were in state ser vice, went into, the w ar and returned to state service. This does not apply to World War I veterans, w n S stayed in state service and are still there. , This resolution calls for preference to . apply to any veteran a J1 Mr. Ericksen moved tnatythe resolu tion be tabled. Motion carried. At this time Mr. Query suggested: that inasmuch as they were particu- larly interested in the promulgation and outline of thè; legislative program, that those m atters be- taken up first and consideration of other matters be deferred «mtilyRWt ;meetuTg|| if there was not time enough for a ll .^ Mr. O’Néil m ovedlllB t the Board discuss the agenda and by m utual con-; sent determine which resolution^ were l ^ ^ l a ti v e matters and' aisct^sj them first.. Motion carried. À ftèr'a check had been made of the Agenda and those resolutions designat ed as legislative indicated, it was de cided to start with Salaries and Wages. Salaries and Wages Resolutions (Legislative) SW 14. Emergency Fund to be Cre ated. Mr. Cameron -said that ^ n ce it had been adopted by the Council and Legislative Committee, has referred it^. to- the chapters, he moved the Board of Directors approve action already taken. Mr. White sàid he believed the Leg- islative Committee had the approval of the Board to proceed on this par ticular problem as indicated in these paragraphs. It was so moved and mo- tion was carried. Mr. Query said they tried to substan tiate the thought constituted in those resolutions when they wrote the ma terial entitled “Parity Pay I for State E m ^^yee.” Mr. W hite'said first it was generally agreed and most of the members un derstood there wòuid be an attempt to get the.’O ^ ^ ia M w h ic h the Civil Ser vice Commission will present the Gov ernor and Budget Director, into effect &six| months iw a dvance of the ordinary effective date. Mr. Query said that in the General Council the resolution on wages said
