Belmont, 388 Mass 632, 634 (1983) (municipality could legitimately choose not to tap into reserve fund); City of Gardner v. Bisbee, 34 Mass.App.Ct. 721, 723 (1993) (pretext established when mayor improperly injected himself and dictated to appointing authority who should be laid-off); Cambridge Housing Auth..v.

The IMA called for a regional dispatch center to be located at the Gardner Police Department and to provide emergency communications and dispatch services for both the City of Gardner and the Town of Athol. EX-1 at 1. Following execution of the IMA, the Towns Board of Selectmen held at least three open meetings between March 2015 and March 2016 at which the IMA was a standing agenda item. Suhoski Testimony. Town Manager Suhoski recalled Ms.

Laborers District Council as t 1 exclusive representative of: All full-time and regular part-time employees employed by the Gardner Housing Authority, Gardner MA employed in the following classifications: Includin Maintenance Mechanics I & II and all other Maintenance employees, but excluding all managerial, confidential and casual employees and all other employees employed by the Gardner Housing Authority.

LRC FORM-003 (page 2) Revised 11/07 All full-time and regular part-time employees employed by the Gardner Housing Authority, Gardner MA, employed in the following classifications: Including but not limited to Maintenance employees, but excluding all managerial, confidential and casual employees and all other employees employed by the Gardner Housing Authority.

In City of Gardner, JUMC-9117P (1993), Arbitrator Theodore OBrien awarded no increase in challenging fiscal times, reasoning as follows: Thus, with due considerations given to traditional factors such as fairness and equity, a comparison of wages of employees within the City of Gardner convinces this Arbitrator that an increase in wages for patrolmen is not justified.

Lowell School City of Gardner, 10 MLC Committee, 1218, 1219, 28 MLC 29, 31, MUP-2074 MUP-4917 (September 14, In this case, the Union argues that the BPHC unlawfully transferred bargaining unit work when it posted Killarneys former position as a non-bargaining unit position.

(DOC) ; Roselli Jr, Frank (DOC) ; Falkins, Richard (DOC) ; Beaudet, Michael (DOC) Subject: Fw: Haze pay Thanks Randy Wilkow Storekeeper II North Central Correctional Institutiow 1 500 Colony Road, Gardner, MA 01440 Phone: Fax: (978) (978) 630-6017 630-6047 From: Storelia, William J (HRD) Sent

Gardner Police Department 200 Main Street Gardner, MA 01440 Dear Deputy Chief Trifiro I have received the petition of Crystal Beckwith-Ponce appealing the response of the Gardner Police Department (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on November 16, 2020, Ms. Beckwith-Ponce requested, certain reports/logs. Unsatisfied with the Departments response, Ms.

Gardner Police Department 200 Main Street Gardner, MA 01440 Dear Deputy Chief Trifiro I have received the petition of Crystal Beckwith-Ponce appealing the response of Gardner Police Department (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on December 10, 2020, Ms. Beckwith-Ponce requested, ... reports/logs since 9/1/20 involving named residents. Unsatisfied with the response, Ms.

Ct. 410, 413 (1987), City of Gardner v. Bisbee, 34 Mass. App. Ct. 721, 723 (1993). The courts have ruled that the Appointing Authority is to have great discretion in making this determination, and the Commission may not, in the 8 guise of protecting an aggrieved employee, substitute its judgment for that of an appointing authority as to the wisdom of a particular reorganization plan undertaken for reasons of economy. Holman v.

Ct. 410, 413 (1987), City of Gardner v. Bisbee, 34 Mass. App. Ct. 721, 723 (1993). If the employee can prove that the Appointing Authoritys explanation of a lack of funds is merely a pretext for an improper motive for separation, i.e. a motive not in accordance with the basic merit principles of the civil service law, then the Appointing Authority is not justified in making such separation. Mayor of Somerville v.

Lowell School Committee, 28 MLC 29, 31 (2001); City of Gardner, 10 MLC 1218, 1219 (1983). Where job duties traditionally have been shared by bargaining unit members and non-unit employees, the Board will not recognize the work in question as exclusive bargaining unit work. Town of Marion, 30 MLC 11, 13 (2003).