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Subseries 2: Merit System Affirmative Action Office Staff Project Files

Dates:
1977-1982
Physical Description:
1.5 cubic feet

Scope and Content Note:

The records in this subseries (meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, monthly reports, staff meeting files and office management guidelines) furnish additional documentation of the activities and operations of the Merit System Affirmative Action Office and the Affirmative Action Advisory Council which was made up of affirmative action officers from all state agencies and formed to advise the Merit System Affirmative Action Office. This subseries also contains specific state agencies' affirmative action program descriptions, individual discrimination complaints, civil service examination information, complaint procedure guidelines and files relating to collaborative projects between the Merit System Affirmative Action Office and other offices in the Department of Civil Service. The files of Omoye Cooper, Associate Opportunities Career Analyst in the Merit System Affirmative Action Office, comprise the last third of this subseries. Her annotations appear on documents throughout her files. In 1980, the Affirmative Action Advisory Council formed an Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Hispanic Representation in the New York State Government Workforce. Despite a very poor response rate among the state agencies surveyed, the committee produced three pages of recommendations designed to "improve upon the current limited representation of Hispanics in all occupational categories in New York State Government." These recommendations were included in the Affirmative Action Advisory Council's final report for 1980 (B4F1). Minutes of an Affirmative Action Advisory Council meeting serve as evidence that the Council again addressed Hispanic issues in 1981 (B4F2). Also included in the Advisory Council's files is correspondence from a Hispanic State employee offering a succinct appraisal of the under representation of Hispanics in State government and suggestions on how to improve the situation. Except for the Board of Parole (B4F10), the Department of Agriculture and Markets (B4F11) and the Division of Probation (B4F9) no state agencies that communicated with the Affirmative Action Office specifically mentioned concern about Hispanics issues in their correspondence. Finally, the issue of bilingualism (English and Spanish), was addressed in this subseries three times: twice by the Education Department's Bureau of Bilingual Education and its Bilingual Subcommittee of the Bureau Affirmative Action Committee (B4F5) and once when the Department of Civil Service administered a Minority Group Personnel Specialist (B5F9) exam in Spanish.

  

Dates Contents Box Folder

Accretion: B0546-84
1980 Affirmative Action Advisory Council, 1980 4 1
1981 Affirmative Action Advisory Council, 1981 4 2
1976-1981 Classification Standards (various) 4 3
1979 Complaint Procedures 4 4
1977-1981 Education Department affirmative action program [1 of 2] 4 5
1977-1981 Education Department affirmative action program [2 of 2] 4 6
1980-1981 Social Services Department affirmative action program [1 of 2] 4 7
1980-1981 Social Department affirmative action program [2 of 2] 4 8
1980-1981 Probation Department affirmative action program 4 9
1980-1981 Parole 4 10
1980-1981 Agriculture and Markets Department affirmative action program 4 11
1980-1982 Correctional Services Department affirmative action program 4 12
1981 Criminal Justice Department affirmative action program 4 13
1980 Miscellaneous Discrimination Complaints [1 of 2] 4 14
1980 Miscellaneous Discrimination Complaints [2 of 2] 4 15
1979-1980 Military and Naval Affairs affirmative action program 4 16
1980-1981 Monthly Reports [1 of 2] 4 17
1980-1981 Monthly Reports [2 of 2] 4 18
1980-1981 Staff Meetings 4 19
1980-1981 Staffing Patterns 4 20
1980 Merit System Affirmative Action Office Guidelines, 1980 4 21
1981 Merit System Affirmative Action Office Guidelines, 1981 4 22
circa 1980 Job Descriptions: Merit System Affirmative Action Office and Affirmative Action. Aide 4 23
1982 Labor Department affirmative action program 4 24
1981 Worker's Compensation Board affirmative action program 4 25
1981 Parks and Recreation Department affirmative action program 4 26
1980-1981 Environmental Conservation Department affirmative action program 4 27
1980-1981 Intra-Department Cooperation 4 28
1979-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper [1 of 3] 4 29
1979-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper [2 of 3] 4 30
1981-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper [3 of 3] 4 31
1981-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Safety and Health Inspector and Trainee Titles 4 32
1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Unemployment Insurance Referee 4 33
1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Park Manager Exam 4 34
1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - S-2 Engineering 4 35
1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - S-2 Beverage Control Inspector 4 36
1981-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - S-1 Priority Title 5 1
1981-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - S-2 Priority Titles 5 2
1980-1981 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - S-12 Folder S-2 5 3
1981 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Exam Information 5 4
1980 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Commerce 5 5
1981 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Labor Department Commission Action 5 6
1980-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - PCT Oral Test and Results 5 7
1979-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Public Management Internships and Exam 5 8
1981-1982 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Minority Group Personnel Specialist Exam 5 9
1981 Staff Files: Omoye Cooper - Complaint Procedures Committee 5 10