4420113 Public Roundtable Notice on PR20-327, "Washington Teachers’ Union Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association Fund Emergency Approval Resolution of 2013" and PR20-330, "Compensation Agreement between the District of Columbia and Compensation ...  

  • CHAIRMAN PHIL MENDELSON

    COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

    ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE

     

    on

     

    PR 20-327, Washington Teachers’ Union Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association Fund Emergency Approval Resolution of 2013

    &

    PR 20-330, Compensation Agreement between the District of Columbia and Compensation Unit 33 Emergency Approval Resolution of 2013

     

    on

     

    Tuesday, July 2, 2013

    9:30 a.m., Council Chamber, John A. Wilson Building

    1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

    Washington, DC 20004

     

                Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announces the scheduling of a public roundtable of the Committee of the Whole on PR 20-327, Washington Teachers’ Union Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association Fund Emergency Approval Resolution of 2013 and PR 20-330, Compensation Agreement between the District of Columbia and Compensation Unit 33 Emergency Approval Resolution of 2013.  The roundtable will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2013 in Council Chamber of the John A. Wilson Building. 

     

          The stated purpose of PR 20-327 is to approve a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Washington Teachers’ Union, in which supplemental unemployment benefits will be made available to certain teachers who were excessed in spring 2012.  These benefits will also be available to certain teachers excessed in the following five school years, including fiscal year 2018.  The stated purpose of PR 20-330 is to approve a compensation agreement between the District and Compensation Unit 33, which encompasses attorneys employed by the Office of the Attorney General.  The purpose of this roundtable is to receive testimony regarding the suitability of the MOU and the compensation agreement.

     

    Those who wish to testify should contact Ms. Christina Setlow, Legislative Counsel, at (202) 724-8196, or via e-mail at csetlow@dccouncil.us, and provide their name, address, telephone number, organizational affiliation and title (if any) by close of business Friday, June 28, 2013.  Persons wishing to testify are encouraged, but not required, to submit 15 copies of written testimony.  If submitted by the close of business on Friday, June 28, 2013 the testimony will be distributed to Councilmembers before the roundtable.  Witnesses should limit their testimony to five minutes; less time will be allowed if there are a large number of witnesses.  A copy of the PRs can be obtained through the Legislative Services Division of the Secretary of the Council’s office or on http://dcclims1.dccouncil.us/lims.

     

    If you are unable to testify at the roundtable, written statements are encouraged and will be made a part of the official record.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee of the Whole, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite 410 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.  The record will close at noon on July 8, 2013.