The OSEA news., July 01, 1970, Page 3, Image 3

The O SEA
J u l y , 1970
Page 3
New s
Report Criticizes Personal Use of State Phone Lines
A Management 70's Task
Force has c ritic iz e d state
employes fo r using state
telephones to make personal
long-distance calls.
The report did not suggest
that much money could be
"saved" by state government,
but noted that it Illustrated the
size of the problem.
It said a random sample
survey of employes who use
long-distance telephone ser­
vices Indicated as much as 25
per cent of the calls were being
placed for personal business.
The Task Force urged state
agencies and the governor to
crack down on personal calls,
even m onitoring calls if
necessary to find those guilty
of making them.
In Its report to Gov. Tom
McCall, the Task Force said the
state is spending $600,000 a
biennium "to provide toll-free
service fo r its em ployes'
personal use."
Using averages of state
employe salaries and call
durations, the rep ort said
salary values of time spent on
such calls theoretically could
total $450,000 a biennium.
the telephone system, without
agency help, the report noted.
It added that some agencies
"seldom bother to question"
long-distance calls by em ­
ployes.
The Task Force said one out
Costs can't be controlled by
the Department of General
Services, which administers
Employe Retirement
Accounts Valued
$ 87.51
M a y , 1970
$101.94
DESSEL GRAVES
Joins OSEA Staff
OSEA Hires
Researcher
OSEA Executive Secretary
Thomas C. Enright has. an­
nounced the appointment of
Dessel
Graves
to
the
headquarters staff as research
analyst.
She began her new job June'
15.
P r io r
to
jo in in g
th e
OSEA
staff, Mrs. Graves was per­
sonnel
A ll Classified Jobs
A t UO Due Study
OSEA and the University of
Oregon have begun a joint,
three-year
study of all
classified positions at the
school.
The study is being un­
dertaken as the result of a
collective bargaining contract
which went into effect earlier
this year.
Its purpose Is to assure both
employes
and
the
ad­
m in istra tio n th a t jobs are
properly classified.
Classifications to be studied
have been divided into seven
groups. They w ill be examined
in the following order:
(1) library assistants, (2)
domestic and custodial, (3)
trades, maintenance, grounds,
engineering
and
related
classes, (4)
clerks and
secretaries, (5) fisca l and
administrative, (6) education
and
(7)
medical
and
laboratory.
Employes w ill be asked, to
prepare position descriptions of
their jobs. Supervisory per­
sonnel
w ill
review
the
descriptions.
The u n ive rs ity personnel
department and OSEA w ill
review positions on a random
sampling basis and develop
recommendations
regarding
position classification.
Recommendations w ill be
submitted to the Personnel
Division for approval.
The contract calls for the
university to Implement all
approved
reclassifica tion s
without delay.
interviewer
with
The golf course is located on
Highway 22 near Stayton, about
eight miles east of Salem.
Jones said OSEA was able to
obtain unlimited starting times
for the tournament. For that
reason, he said, there w ill be no
limitation on the number of
players who may enter.
The entry fee w ill again be $6
per player. Of that amount, $4
w ill be used to pay green fees
and $2 w ill go towards the cost
of prizes and refreshments.
For members of Santlam
Golf Club the entry fee w ill be
$2.
The tournament w ill begin at
9:00 a.m. when the firs t four­
some Is scheduled to start. A
foursome w ill follow every
seven minutes until all players
are on the course.
As in past years, a "blind
bogey" system w ill be used to
compute net scores and
determine flight winners.
Jo n es
s a id
th e
to u r n a m e n t
com m ittee w ill select four
handicap holes. Players w ill
not be Informed of the holes
until after they have completed
their rounds.
A percentage of the strokes
over par on the handicap holes
w ill be subtracted from the
gross score to determine the
net score.
Players w ill be divided into
six flights, according to their
gross score. Prizes w ill be
awarded to the winners and
runners-up in each flight, in
a d d it io n ,
n u m e ro u s
miscellaneous prizes w ill be
awarded.
Winner of the championship
fligh t w ill have his name In­
scribed on the G overnor's
Trophy, a perpetual trophy
given to OSEA by former Gov.
M ark O. Hatfield.
A picnic lunch w ill be served
at the golf course at the con­
clusion of the tournament.
Last year's tournament drew
some
65
players
from
throughout the state. Flight
winners were: James Roethlin,
cham pionship flig h t; Les
Ham pton, fir s t flig h t; Bob
P rice, second flig h t; Odell
Wood, th ird flig h t; Harold
M c N a n n a y , fo u r th
flig h t;
Ev
Stiles, fifth flight.
the
Allstate Insurance Company in
Salem. She was w ith the
company nearly 14 years.
Shortly after beginning work,
Mrs. Graves began the project
of updating OSEA's frin g e
benefit survey. She said It was
mailed to every state In the
nation plus some 80 private
firm s In Oregon.
The results w ill be tabulated
this fall. The survey w ill be
used by the OSEA staff during
the 1971 legislative session.
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OSEA Golf Tournament
ENTRY FORM
AUGUST 15,1970 — SANTIAM GOLF CLUB
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OSEA Golf Tournament
Post Office Box 2307
Salem, Oregon 97308
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recommended that an "a c­
ceptable level" of personal use
of long-distance fa c ilitie s
should be determined.
G o lf Tournam ent
Set For August 15
OSEA's seventh annual golf
tournam ent w ill be held
Saturday, Aug. 15, at the
Santlam Golf Club, according
to Chalmers Jones; chairman
of the tournament committee.
It said McCall should con­
sider an executive order to
agencies telling them to stop
personal calling and wasteful
telephone usage. That might
reduce agency long-distance
telephone budgets by as much
as 12 per cent, it said.
In an effort to keep OSEA members informed on the value of
their retirement accounts, the OSEA News w ill publish the
following table each month. It lists both the variable annuity
account' (which is invested in common stocks and short term
notes) and the "fix e d " portion of the account (which is invested
in long term bonds and mortgages). The table shows the current
value of each $100 invested in either the variable annuity ac­
count or the "fix e d " account on January 1,1970.
VARIABLE
"F IX E D "
ACCOUNT
ACCOUNT
$101.16
$102.55
March, 1970
$101.55
$ 92.55
A pril, 1970
of every seven toll calls Is
person-to-person, and nearly
half of those are generally
more than a half-hour long. It
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