A new meeting date will be set as soon as possible. We will keep you informed as to the rescheduled meeting and the progress of ACSS' critical issues. Because the IT community is just now emerging from several years of Year 2000 duress and now needs to address major long-deferred IT projects, leadership in this arena is an invaluable state resource that should be treated as such. Without an immediate and meaningful compensation adjustment, retention and recruitment of IT supervisors and managers is questionable at best. The requested retroactive salary adjustment in this budget year will stand as the basis of future years' IT budgeting.
Time is of the essence.
More meetings and studies may be necessary to fully address these salary inequities, but delay in implementing immediate relief is affecting morale, and therefore will ultimately affect the state's retention rate of qualified, dedicated and deserving IT managers and supervisors. DPA and ACSS are scheduled to meet at the end of March and again address this subject and its many peripheral questions. ACSS will keep members informed as to the progress of these meetings.