(LOUISIANA PURCHASE ROOM, SUITE 1-100, CLAIBORNE BUILDING, 1201 NORTH THIRD STREET, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA)

4)         Director’s Report  (No Attachment)

5)         Employee Opportunity to Address the Commission.  (No Requests Have Been Received.) 

6)         Public hearing to consider adoption of a proposed amendment to Civil Service Rule 1.5.1.  (Appearance by a Representative of the Department of Civil Service.)  THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS POSTPONED UNTIL MAY 5, 2004. 

7)         Consideration of the Request for Proposal from the Louisiana State University - Alexandria to outsource the bookstore services.  (Appearance by a Representative of the Louisiana State University – Alexandria.) THE REQUEST WAS GRANTED BY THE COMMISSION. 

8)         Request of the LSU Health Sciences Center, Health Care Services Division, for authority under the provisions of Civil Service Rule 6.16(c), for an individual pay adjustment in the amount of $43.20 bi-weekly for Ms. Sherry Weber Mouton, Audiologist 2 at the University Medical Center – Lafayette effective March 29, 2004.  (Appearance by a Representative of the LSU Health Sciences Center, Health Care Services Division.)  THE REQUEST WAS GRANTED BY THE COMMISSION. 

9)         Request of the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service, for authority under the provisions of Civil Service Rule 6.16(c), for an individual pay adjustment in the amount of $ 37.33 bi-weekly for Ms. Debra Bourque effective April 7, 2004.  (Appearance by a Representative of the Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service.)  THE REQUEST WAS GRANTED BY THE COMMISSION. 

10)       Request of the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, under the provisions of Civil Service Rule 6.16(c), for an individual pay adjustment in the amount of $121.24 bi-weekly for Mr. Francis Naquin, Sanitarian 3.  (Appearance by a Representative of the Office of Public Health.)  THE REQUEST WAS WITHDRAWN FROM  THE AGENDA. 

11)       Request of the Department of Education, for authority under the provisions of Civil Service Rule 4.1(d)2, for one (1) Director and one (1) Assistant Director for the Recovery School District for a period of three years.  (Appearance by a Representative of the Department of Education.)  THE REQUEST WAS GRANTED BY THE COMMISSION. 

12)       Consideration of the following requests for authority, under the provisions of Civil Service Rule 6.16.1, to establish or amend the Rewards and Recognition Policies as follows:  THE REQUESTS WERE GRANTED BY THE COMMISSION. 

a.         Louisiana School for the Deaf - to revise its policy effective April 7, 2004 as follows: 

·                    To add rewards for employees who attain CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) Instructor, CPR (Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation) Instructor, or Lifeguard Certification Instructor and agree to train/certify Louisiana School for the Deaf employees. 

·                    To add rewards for classified employees selected at the end of each month to be recognized for outstanding performance. 

b.         LSU Agricultural Center - to revise its policy effective April 7, 2004 as follows: 

·                    Add the Diversity Awards Program and the LSU Foundation Staff Outstanding Service Award to the existing policy, and to update other programs to reflect title changes of units and employee groups to represent recent organizational changes. 

(Appearance by Representatives of the Agencies.) 

13)       Consideration of the following requests for authority, under the provisions of Civil Service Rule 6.16.2, to establish or amend the Optional Pay Adjustment policies as follows: THE REQUESTS WERE GRANTED BY THE COMMISSION. 

a.         Pennington Biomedical Research Center - to establish a policy effective April 7, 2004.  The agency has chosen to reward those employees in the following areas: 

1)         Retention of employees deemed essential to the agency – up to 10% base pay or lump sum increase to match a written and verified offer from a private employer. 

2)         Recruit employees into difficult to fill positions – up to 10% base pay or lump sum increase in order to recruit employees into difficult to fill positions. 

3)         Adjust pay differentials between comparable employees – up to 10% base pay increase for salary compression caused by the implementation of either 6.5(b) or 6.5(g). 

4)         Compensation for employees who perform additional duties – up to 10% base pay or lump sum increase to employees who are assigned additional duties on a permanent basis.  Employees who are assigned additional duties on a temporary basis may receive a lump sum of up to 10% of their base pay for such duties. 

b.                   Housing Authority of East Baton Rouge Parish - to revise its policy effective April 7, 2004, to provide payments for “the maximum adjustment allowable by Civil Service Rules.”   

(Appearance by Representatives of the Agencies.) 

14)       Report on Evaluation Reports Issued (Appearance by Terry Gomez of the Department of Civil Service.) THE REPORTS WERE PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION BY TERRY GOMEZ. 

Human Resources Program Evaluation Reports:
            Avoyelles Correctional Center – Department of Corrections
            Delgado Community College

15)       Consideration of the Minutes of the Commission Meeting held March 2-3, 2004.  THE COMMISSION APPROVED THE MINUTES, AS WRITTEN.

16)       Consideration of Requests for Special Entrance Rates.  THE COMMISSION GRANTED THE REQUESTS AS RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT.

17)       Consideration of Requests for Special Pay Rates.  THE COMMISSION GRANTED THE REQUESTS AS RECOMMENDED BY THE DEPARTMENT. 

18)       10:30 a.m.           Commission Work Session.

19)       11:00 a.m.           Applications for Review.

20)       12:00 noon          Consideration of Formal Charges.

SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA

STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

GENERAL BUSINESS SESSION

TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2004