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Your KCLEA Executive Board has scheduled a General Membership meeting and they would like to encourage everyone to attend. Check out the details below or click the link to download a flyer on the event.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Contract negotiations
• Union board nominations
• 2010 POAM convention
• Legal Plan

 If for some reason you are unable to attend and have any questions, please feel free to contact an executive board member by clicking here.

Your Deputy Sheriff's Association of Michigan has been very hard at work lately defending attacks against you from the legislature and even some Michigan Sheriffs (not our Sheriff, BTW).

Check out this article at DSAM's website which outlines how some Michigan Sheriffs (again, not our Sheriff) have been non-compliant with their statutorily required duty to recertify their Corrections Deputies, and even possibly misusing book in fee money in the process. DSAM started looking into this and somehow ran into some FOIA trouble with some of those Sheriffs. One is left to assume there were some things they didn't want us to know.

DSAM-MI.org has an article where it appears that local (Holland) House Representative Joe Haveman thinks that YOU and your evil P.A. 312 protection are creating a public safety hazard (that's not my hyperbole, supporters of the bill have actually said that). His bill would open P.A. 312 to require arbitrators to consider the municipalities ability to pay. Sounds reasonable right? Well what needs to be understood here is that arbitrators already look at the municipalities ability to pay. So it appears Joe's rather innocuous request might just be another backhanded attempt to open P.A. 312 for debate in the house where anything could happen. Something like you, me and our community losing that protection all together.

There is also another bill introduced by freshman Representative Justin Amash that calls to repeal P.A. 312 altogether. Just in case you might be wondering if all this crowing by DSAM about the attacks in P.A. 312 might just be exaggeration check out this page on the Michigan Municipal Leagues website. 

 Some other West Michigan legislators (including our own David Agema) have decided you pay too little for health insurance. To remedy this they have decided to propose bills that would require every public employee to pay AT LEAST 15% of their health insurance cost. The irony here is that Agema's political schtick is that he's ultra-conservative. Taking away local communities ability to bargain with their own employees and putting the solutions in the hands of the state's big-government doesn't seem very conservative to me. Again, read about it at DSAM-MI.org

• Michigan Sheriffs non-compliance leads to Bill to Merge MCOLES and Sheriffs' Co-Ordinating and Training Council
• Public Act 312 under Attack!
• Health Insurance Bills Target Public Employees