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138 Delphi Questions •
Field-assignment pay
Some staff members spend significant amounts of time in the field due to their job requirements. According to UCAR Policies & Procedures, staff participating in registered field projects are eligible for field pay as descr...
Question # 596  |  Date received: September 05, 2008  |  Date answered: September 24, 2008
Owls at Foothills
In mid-february we learned that Physical Plant Services (PPS) was planning to remove a large nest on the southeast corner of the third floor of FL2. We wrote to PPS, alerting it to the fact that we had a pair of nesting gr...
Question # 594  |  Date received: July 31, 2008  |  Date answered: August 11, 2008
Janitorial services
Is there any supervision of, or checking up on, the custodians after they have cleaned? I ask because it is apparent that no cleaning of bathroom floors or toilets has been done for the last two days. The two bathrooms I u...
Question # 593  |  Date received: July 30, 2008  |  Date answered: August 07, 2008
Library acquisitions
As tight as the budgets are supposed to be, how can the NCAR Library constantly buy so many new books? There are almost daily postings of new books purchased.
Question # 595  |  Date received: September 23, 2008  |  Date answered: August 01, 2008
Flexible schedules
I have noticed in the news a lot of talk about companies going to compressed work eeks, four-day work weeks, and telecommuting to allow their employees to save some oney on gas. UCAR has this compressed work week (Flexip...
Question # 592  |  Date received: July 18, 2008  |  Date answered: July 29, 2008
Pay raises continued
I understand that there were significant financial pressures for delaying the annual salary increase from June 1 to October 5 to address the Omnibus Bill, and that the salary increase range movement was adjusted accordingly...
Question # 591  |  Date received: July 17, 2008  |  Date answered: July 29, 2008
Pay raises
I appreciate management's efforts to deal with the budget shortfall this year by delaying the annual pay raises, and I realize that the budget for next fiscal year is unlikely to be known with certainty until after the...
Question # 590  |  Date received: June 30, 2008  |  Date answered: July 11, 2008
Space Planning Committee
I have become aware that the Space Planning Committee worked on a master plan and space guidelines for three years. The plan was accepted, but never implemented by NCAR. What was the reason for the change?
Question # 588  |  Date received: May 21, 2008  |  Date answered: May 27, 2008
Severe Weather Alerts
I would like to know why UCAR/NCAR does not have a method in place for notifying staff of extreme weather events along the Front Range in near real time. I was very surprised that staff were not informed about the severe...
Question # 589  |  Date received: May 23, 2008  |  Date answered: May 23, 2008
Hiring Freeze
I heard in a meeting with the director of a lab that there is a UCARĀ­-wide hiring freeze in place to help save UCAR money, considering the impending budget shortfalls. (It was the same meeting where we discussed the four...
Question # 586  |  Date received: April 13, 2008  |  Date answered: April 26, 2008
138 Delphi Questions •