Plan Design The flexible benefits plan is a cafeteria-style benefits program wherein the County makes a contribution toward the Flexible Benefits Plan for each eligible employee to be allocated during the employee's active employment. The County contribution is distributed by the employee among the menu of benefit options listed below, the specific details and administration of which are set forth in the plan brochures: • Health insurance • County basic life and AD&D insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Supplemental life insurance • Supplemental accidental death and dismemberment insurance (AD&D) • Flexible spending accounts for pre-tax reimbursement of qualified medical and/or dependent day care expenses. Account credits must be used during the plan year in which they are earned for expenses incurred during the same plan year. • The plan may be modified upon written notice by the County. This plan includes for eligible employees pre-tax contributions for all monies paid toward health, dental, vision and/or voluntary AD&D plans.
Schematic Design See Section 2, Part 1, Article 2.1.4, Paragraph 2.1.4.2.
HIRING PROCEDURE 5.1 At the Pre-job Conference the Employer may request and the Local Union shall clear:
5.1.1 Up to ten percent (10%) of the Principal Operators excluding mechanics, required for the job from other Locals of the Union and each such Principal Operator shall be entitled to perform only the work for which he is cleared. Up to one- half (½) of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment at the start of the Right-of-Way operations and the balance of those Principal Operators cleared under this provision may commence employment not prior to the start of the Pipe Gang operations.
5.1.2 Up to fifty percent (50%) of the mechanics, utility welders and lubrication and service unit operators required for the job who are members of another Local of the Union. This ratio shall be maintained on a "one-to-one" basis for the duration of the job. The first employee shall be a member of the Local Union having geographic jurisdiction for the job.
5.1.3 The Employer shall have the right to name request by classification up to fifty percent (50%) of the required employees who are members of the Local Union. Those employees hired under the provisions of Article 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 above shall be included in the fifty percent (50%). This ratio shall be maintained on a one-to-one basis for the duration of the job. Thereafter the Employer shall notify the Local Union of all his employee requirements and shall only hire those who have been cleared for work by the Local Union having jurisdiction.
5.2 The Local Union shall be given forty-eight (48) hours exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays to supply the required employees but shall advise the Employer of expected delays in dispatching any employees within forty- eight (48) hours. Employees shall be entitled to Waiting Time or Reporting Time upon arrival at the jobsite on the day designated by the Employer for arrival, if no work is provided.
5.3 All employees shall be in possession of a referral slip from the Local Union for identification purposes unless the Local Union otherwise clears an employee for hire by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or other means of written communication. All out-of-province employees must provide the Local Union having jurisdiction with a copy of a duly authorized Travel Card issued by his/her home Local prior to being issued a referral slip and cleared to work.
5.4 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Employer shall have the right to refuse any referral provided the cause for such refusal is stated and shall not be unreasonable.
5.5 If the Local Union is unable to supply the required employees in accordance with Article 5.2, the Employer may obtain employees elsewhere, subject to the provisions of Article 3.3.
5.6 In the event the Local Union is unable to supply the required qualified employees, the Employer will provide every opportunity to any employee who has successfully completed a pipeline Operating Engineers training course, and is approved by a joint training committee, and the employee will be admitted to membership in the Local Union in accordance with Article
Program Design The County Human Resources Department will operate a Catastrophic Leave Bank which is designed to assist any County employee who has exhausted all paid accruals due to a serious or catastrophic illness, injury, or condition of the employee or family member. The program establishes and maintains a Countywide bank wherein any employee who wishes to contribute may authorize that a portion of his/her accrued vacation, compensatory time, holiday compensatory time or floating holiday be deducted from those account(s) and credited to the Catastrophic Leave Bank. Employees may donate hours either to a specific eligible employee or to the bank. Upon approval, credits from the Catastrophic Leave Bank may be transferred to a requesting employee's sick leave account so that employee may remain in paid status for a longer period of time, thus partially ameliorating the financial impact of the illness, injury, or condition. Catastrophic illness or injury is defined as a critical medical condition, a long-term major physical impairment or disability which manifests itself during employment.
Study Design This includes a discussion of the evaluation design employed including research questions and hypotheses; type of study design; impacted populations and stakeholders; data sources; and data collection; analysis techniques, including controls or adjustments for differences in comparison groups, controls for other interventions in the State and any sensitivity analyses, and limitations of the study.
Project Design Applicants must design a project that provides access to health services to enable eligible women and men experiencing health needs to secure and maintain safe and accessible quality screening and diagnostic services, comprehensive family planning, and/ or other women’s health services.
A. Applicants are encouraged to emphasize the following components in the design of their projects. Projects must:
1. Use a collaborative approach to maximize existing community resources and avoid duplication of effort;
2. Enhance systems and local processes to make it easier for people to transition to, from, and between services;
3. Address barriers to ensure services are accessible to people regardless of setting or location; and
4. Promote improvement and positively impact health and well-being through coordinated service delivery.
B. To be effective, services and activities provided or made available as part of the Proposed Project should have policies and procedures in place and include with the application as an attachment that:
1. Delineate the timely provision of services;
2. Deem Client eligibility and service provision as soon as possible and no later than 30 calendar days from initial request;
3. Require staff to assess and prioritize Client needs;
4. Implement with model fidelity to an evidence-based program or based upon best available research;
5. Plan in partnership with the person and are inclusive;
6. Provide in an environment that is most appropriate and based on a person’s preference including reasonable clinic/reception wait times that are not a barrier to care;
7. Provide referral sources for Clients that cannot be served or receive a specific service;
8. Are culturally and linguistically sensitive;
9. Tailor services to a person’s unique strengths and needs;
10. Manage funds to ensure established Clients continuity of care throughout budget year;
11. Continue to provide services to established Clients after allocated funds are expended;
12. Have processes to identify and eliminate possible barriers to care;
13. Do not deny services due to inability to pay;
14. Have appropriate key personnel and required staff to meet the medical and health needs of Clients;
15. Bill services appropriately and timely through TMHP;
16. Effectively communicate and document information related to health care needs with next steps available to Client;
17. Establish outreach and education plan for the community; and
18. Outline successful delivery of direct clinical services to Clients By submitting an Application under this RFA, the Applicant certifies that Applicant has or will have at time of grant award services, policies, or procedures that conform with the requirements in this section as applicable. HHSC, in its sole discretion, may request to review relevant documentation during the project period as necessary to ensure program fidelity.
Informal Resolution Outcomes a. When a complainant approaches an administrative officer and alleges harassment by another BCTF member, the following shall apply:
i. All discussions shall be solely an attempt to mediate the complaint;
ii. Any and all discussions shall be completely off the record and will not form part of any record;
iii. Only the complainant, respondent, and administrative officer shall be present at such meetings
iv. No discipline of any kind would be imposed on the respondent; and
v. The BCTF and its locals, based on the foregoing, will not invoke the notice of investigation and other discipline provisions of the collective agreement at meetings pursuant to Article E.2.5.a.
b. Should a resolution be reached between the complainant and the respondent at Step One under the circumstances of Article E.2.5.a, it shall be written up and signed by both. Only the complainant and the respondent shall have copies of the resolution and they shall be used only for the purpose of establishing that a resolution was reached. No other copies of the resolution shall be made.
c. In the circumstances where a respondent has acknowledged responsibility pursuant to Article E.
Protocol The attached Protocol shall be an integral part of this Agreement.
Schematic Design Documents In accordance with the approved Preliminary Design and Construction Schedule and based upon approval of and comments made by the Owner regarding the Concept Design Studies, the Design Professional shall prepare and submit to the Owner Schematic Design Documents, including drawings and outline specifications. These documents shall represent a further development of the approved design concept, providing additional detail and specificity regarding the intended design solution. Typically, all such documents shall be drawn to scale, indicating materials and assemblies, as appropriate, to convey the design intent and to illustrate the Project’s basic elements, scale and relationship to the Site. All major pieces of furniture and equipment to be fixed or supplied by the CM/GC shall be illustrated to scale. (See ASTM Standard Practice E 1804-02, August 2007, Sections 6.3, 8.2 and 8.3 for guidance on information which is generally developed in Schematic Design.)
Timetable In order to set a timetable and procedural framework within which the subcommittees will accomplish their tasks, the parties have further agreed to the following: The subcommittees referenced in Section 1 above will be appointed and have their first organizational meeting within six (6) weeks of the date of the MOU ratification. Each subcommittee shall provide to the Head of the affected Department a final report no later than thirty (30) weeks after the date of the MOU ratification. The Department Head who receives a final report will meet with the LMC to provide feedback on the report, indicating areas of acceptance and explaining the reasons for rejecting any of the recommendations in the report.
