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July 20, 2016

Table of contents
Agenda

Approval of April 20, 2016 minutes (5 minutes) – Ellen Herbst

Ongoing Matters (50 minutes) 

  • Status of Action Items from April 20, 2016 Forum meeting – Frank Milman [5 minutes]
  • Shared Services
    • Ken Kukovich [10 minutes] 
    • Ellen Herbst [5 minutes]

Status of the implementation of shared services for IT, financial management, and acquisitions.

  • Phased Retirement – How can the Forum promote the success of the Department’s Phased Retirement policy to the press – Laurie Schwede and Kevin Mahoney [5 minutes]
  • Metric for Forum for FY16 – Howard Friedman/Kevin Mahoney [5 minutes]
  • Gender Pay Gap/Pay Parity – Labor [5 minutes]
  • FEVS – working with OPM to improve the FEVS – Laurie Schwede [5 minutes] 
  • Communication of Forum Achievements – Howard Friedman [10 minutes]

New Business [15minutes]

  • Discussion of the Department’s Travel Policy Handbook – Dan Sobien [15 minutes]

Other Business (5 minutes)

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