Personnel Review Board - Minutes - 05/19/2022

Personnel Review Board
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May 19, 2022 Ss
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Present: Rik Wells, Chairman ya
Krum Chuchev
Talivaldis Maidelis =
Cathy Patterson i)
Absent: David Peabody “9
Also Present: Christine Walters, Human Resources Director; Eileen Duggan, Labor Counsel; Dan
O’Connor, Part-Time Firefighter.
Mr. Wells called the May 19, 2022 Personnel Review Board Meeting to order at 6:30pm.
1. Review and approval of the Special Meeting Minutes of May 2, 2022
Mr. Maidelis made a MOTION to approve the May 2, 2022 Special Meeting Minutes of the Personnel
Review Board. Seconded by Mr. Chuchev. Discussion took place on the role of the Personnel Review
Board regarding new positions and re-structuring within departments; audits were discussed with the
purpose of bringing detailed information on new positions to the Board for review.
(2-0) (Ms. Patterson and Mr. Wells abstained).
2. Town of Waterford Policy Regarding Eligibility for the Connecticut Municipal Employment
Retirement System (CMERS)
Eileen Duggan, Labor Counsel, spoke on behalf of the Connecticut Municipal Employee Retirement
System and how the Town is currently limiting part-time employee hours to less than 20 hours per week;
codifying this policy will allow part-time employees to work up to 25 hours per week without eligibility to
participate in MERS and those who work regularly an average of 26 or more hours per week are eligible to
participate in MERS. Brief discussion on grandfathering any current employees who work twenty or more
hours per week but less than twenty-six hours per week who currently participate in MERS; brief discussion
regarding current Town benefits and employee eligibility; brief discussion regarding the zero financial
impact of this policy on the Town.
Ms. Patterson made a MOTION to approve the Town of Waterford Policy Regarding Eligibility For The
Connecticut Municipal Employee Retirement System (CMERS) as proposed (Attachment A). Seconded by
Mr. Maidelis (4-0) Unanimous.
MOTION: Mr. Chuchev made a MOTION to adjourn the Personnel Review Board Meeting of May 19,
2022 at 6:58pm. Seconded by Ms. Patterson (4-0) Unanimous.
Respectfully Submitted,
Chrcatine Woke
Christine Walters
Recording Secretary

ATTACHMENT A
TOWN OF WATERFORD POLICY REGARDING ELIGIBILITY FOR THE CONNECTICUT MUNICIPAL
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM (“CMERS”)
WHEREAS, the Town of Waterford (“Town”) has the right and ability to determine the eligibility
criteria for its employees to participate in the Connecticut Municipal Employee Retirement System
(“CMERS”); and
WHEREAS, employees covered by collective bargaining agreements are eligible to participate in
CMERS in accordance with the terms of those collective bargaining agreements; and
WHEREAS, although the Town does not have an explicit policy regarding eligibility criteria for
its non-union employees to participate in CMERS, the Town has considered non-union employees
regularly scheduled to work and working twenty (20) or more hours each week to be eligible to
participate in CMERS; and
WHEREAS, the non-union eligibility criterion of twenty (20) or more hours each week to
participate in CMERS has limited the number of hours of work of certain part-time employees (e.g.,
firefighters), despite a need and desire to increase the hours of such part-time employees; and
WHEREAS, the Town desires to modify and clarify the eligibility criteria for its Non-Union
employees to participate in CMERS, and
THEREFORE, the Personnel Review Board adopts the following:
1. Non-union employees who, over the course of a fiscal year, are regularly scheduled to
work and work an average of twenty-six (26) or more hours each week (or one thousand three hundred
fifty two (1352) hours in the fiscal year) are eligible to participate in CMERS.
2. Once eligible to participate in CMERS, a non-union employee must continue to be
scheduled to work and work an average of twenty-six (26) or more hours each week (or one thousand
three hundred fifty two (1352) hours in the fiscal year) to remain eligible to participate in CMERS.
3. Any current non-union employee who works twenty (20) or more hours but less than
twenty-six (26) or more hours each week and participates in CMERS is grandfathered (or allowed to
continue to participate) in CMERS.
4. This policy does not address eligibility criteria for other items that are statutorily based,
such as, for example, eligibility to participate in group health insurance under the Affordable Care Act
and/or eligibility for paid sick leave under the Connecticut Paid Sick Leave Act.
PRB Approved: 5/19/22