CONNECTICUT STATE BOARD
OF
MEDIATION
AND
ARBITRATIONLABOR DEPARTMENT
38
WOLCOTT HILL ROAD
WETHERSFIELD,
CONNECTICUT
Wednesday December
09
2009
TRANSMITTAL
MEMORANDUM
Hartford
City
of
and
HM
Local
Case
2009-A-0156
Vilma
Rivera-Saez
RBITR TION W RD
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Stephen F. McEleney, Esquire Joseph Parker, Ph. D.
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clerk in accordance with Section
3 1-98,
Chapter
560,
of
Ivette
Hernandez
the
Connecticut General Statutes.
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In
the
Matter
of:
CITY OF HARTFORD
-AND-
HARTFORD MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES
ASSOCIATION
)
CASE
NO.
2009-A-0156
)
)
HEARING DATES:
May 26,
2009
)
June
19,
2009
£WARD
DATE:
December
9,
2009
AWARD
DATE:
LOCATION OF
HEARING:Department
of
Labor
Wethersfield,
Ct.
Appearances:
For the
City: Ivan
A.
Ramos, Esq.For
the
Union: Stephen
F.
McEleney, Esq.
ISSUE
Did the
City
of
Hartford
terminate Vilma Rivera-Saez
for
just cause?
If
not,
what shall
the
remedy
be?
CASENO.20Q9-A-0156
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system.
This task, which
is
usually performed
at the end of the
day,
is
referred
to as
closing
out .
As
part
of the
closing
out
process,
the
cashiers
are
required
to
prepare
a
document
called Daily
Deposit Reconciliation
Record .
This document
lists
all the
checks
and
cash
received
by a
particular
cashier
and
certifies
that monies received
are
properly accounted
for and
that
the
deposits
in the box
match
the
deposits recorded
in the
Munis system.
A
printout
of the
Munisreport
is
attached
to the
Daily Deposit Reconciliation Record.
The
cash
and the
checks
itemized
in
the
Daily Deposit Reconciliation Record must match
the
checks
and the
cash
in the
Munisreport. The adding tape used in the closing out process is also attached to the DepositReconciliation Record.
Deputy
Finance Director Lydia
Rosario
testified
that
the
grievant
received extensive
training
during
the
time that
she
worked
for the
City.
She
attended
a
supervisor's trainingprovided by an independent
firm
known as Skill Path. She also received on-site training provided
by
a
representative
of the
Bank
of
America
and
attended
a
lengthy series
of
seminars organized
by
the
Connecticut
Tax
Collector's
Association.
In
addition,
Ms.
Rosario indicated that
the
grievantreceived
on the job
training
by
Linda Savitsky,
a
service consultant hired
by the
City
to
assist
the Tax
Collector's
Office.
Moreover, Mr. Thomas Bowley, an internal auditor with the City of
Hartford,
testified
that
he
provided guidance
and
assistance
to
employees
in the
cashier's
area
on a
regular basis.
In
the
summer
of
2008, Patrick Campbell,
the
City's Chief Auditor,
was
asked
to
investigate a
series
of
cash shortages
in the Tax
Collector's
Office.
The
investigation revealed
the
existence of a scheme in which checks were substituted for cash in several daily
deposits
made
during
the month of November of
2007.
Mr. Campbell found that
someone
in the Tax
Office
had
taken
cash
out of a
cashier's
box and
replaced
it
with checks that
had
been received through
the
mail. In his testimony, Mr. Campbell gave a general description of how the scheme operated:
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