First of all, I’d like to say thank you for the opportunity to be your rep for a 2nd term. I’ve learned a lot over the last 2 years. There have been some growing pains and I will challenge myself to continue to grow as a rep. Please help me by letting me know if you have ideas, concerns, or even constructive criticism.
I’m sure everyone has heard by now that Bryan Barker has also withdrawn his acceptance to come to TMU. Believe me when I say that I am incredibly frustrated with yet another set back with our staffing. And not just because I had to redo the bid for a 3rd time. The most recent bid that went out came back with approximately 10 candidates that the panel (Keeley, Vaden, and Matt Snodgrass) requested supervisor feedback from. The cut over with Anthony leaving and Randy coming back is frustrating due to the timing but Keeley has been pretty forthcoming about the progress in the bid. My hope is that we can pick 2 off the bid and 1 from an ERR. I will make sure I share more info with you as it becomes available. I know staffing has been frustrating for everyone and I really appreciate your patience.
So far we only have one workgroup coming up in the near future. Keeley, myself, the A and C area reps and sups are meeting on September 24th to discuss the elimination of event numbers and specifying MARSA in NUW airspace. I’m under the impression that this will be a preliminary meeting to see what we all want before moving forward and speaking to NUW. Hopefully this will help with the very complex and sometime confusing schedules we’ve been getting from NUW lately.
The LSC has spoken to Keeley and myself about a couple of topics. One of them is to try and help build better working relationships with the controllers. And the other is to try and find a solution to help with some issues in regards to the military desk. I recently emailed them a snapshot of all the things we do on the military desk and how some things can get missed. I’m hoping that now the LSC is involved, we can get some help to reduce the workload for the TMCs on the military desk.
As always, please let me know if you have any ideas that I can work on. I am your rep and I’m here for all of you guys. Thank you again.