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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ent law should be repealed before the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