San Francisco FEB

Well, my esteemed Federal colleagues, I'll be retiring with 32+ years of federal service on July 31, 2015. My career started as a GS-4 Tax Examiner with IRS in Philadelphia, crossed over to Dept. of Labor with Wage and Hour, OASAM, and OSHA, and ends with this GS-14 FEB Executive Director position in San Francisco. Our FEB Leadership Development Program (LDP) Cohort threw me a surprise party last week, and the Board of Directors had a lovely cake and very nice comments at last week's Board meeting. Received a Wellness Ambassador Award from Federal Occupational Health (with Yasmeen Hantuli, in photo). More fun to come, I'm told. Lots of adventures ahead. Thanks for all your support and friendship through the years. Mahalo and Aloha!

San Francisco FEB Launches Renewed & Reinvigorated Website!! Kudos to Ty Walker and Rebecca Anderson from the Leadership Development Program for taking on this project! www.sffeb.us

How wonderful to see our colleague, federal Park Ranger Soskin and Richmond's wonderful Rosie the Riveter WWII Park featured!

Betty Soskin: A living monument to WWII history She is a park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif.

Two great programs this past Monday:
"Moving Ahead in the Federal Government" and "Executive Women in Motion: Pathways to the Senior Executive Service." What an extensive involvement across agencies that made this such a successful event!! Thanks to our volunteers from DOL-OASAM & ETA, HHS-OASH, USDA-FNS, FMCS, and DOJ-EOIR! Thanks to our SES Mentors from HUD, GSA, SSA, VA, USPTO, DOL-ETA, NASA, USCIS, FNS-USDA, EPA, and HHS-CMS! Thanks to the OPM Team: Elnora Wright , Yadira Guerrero, Anita Spinner, Nathaniel Hopkins, and Nicole Lassiter!

LGBT Discrimination Protections for Federal Workers

Today, four Federal Government agencies with roles in ensuring fairness in the federal workplace released a guide on the rights and processes available to applicants and employees who allege sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination. The guide is being reissued after more than a decade and has been substantially revised to reflect major developments in the law.
The agencies collaborating on the guide are the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), and the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
The guide is entitled, “Addressing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination in Federal Civilian Employment: A Guide to Employment Rights, Protections, and Responsibilities.” It can be found at www.opm.gov/LGBTGuide.

http://www.opm.gov/news/releases/2015/05/agencies-release-guide-on-lgbt-discrimination-protections-for-federal-workers/

www.opm.gov

Greetings,

The U.S. EEOC is hosting a one-day seminar in Hollywood, California on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. Spaces are limited so please register online at https://secure.kinsail.com/results.asp?p=eeoc&pt=store&GroupID=35401.

This year's host is our newly appointed Los Angeles District Director, Rosa Viramontes. The full brochure is attached. Please feel free to forward to your members & colleagues. We hope to see you there & will keep you posted!

Best,

Brandon

PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS – THANKS

You are invited! Please join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 9 San Francisco Human Trafficking Workgroup for a Human Trafficking Programs and Services Webinar which will be held on Wednesday, May 27, from 2:30 – 4:00 PM (PDT). To register, click on the following link:

https://eventbrite.com/event/16854188331/

Instructions on how to connect to the webinar will be sent to each registrant. If you have any questions about registration or the webinar, please contact Emily Hughes at [email protected].

Human Trafficking Programs and Services Webinar Anti-human trafficking service providers, law enforcement, and legal experts from the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento will share information about their work and how individuals, families, and communities can play a critical role in identifying and assisting victims. Instructions on how to con…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2015
MEDIA CONTACT: Suzanne Skadowski, U.S. EPA, 415-972-3165 (O) 415-265-2863 (M), [email protected]

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U.S. EPA Administrator McCarthy joins San Francisco Bay agencies to celebrate nation’s largest solar energy partnership

SAN FRANCISCO – On Wednesday, May 13, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will join Bay Area agencies to celebrate the nation’s largest local government collaborative for solar power and launch the nation’s first federal solar partnership. Administrator McCarthy, the federal government’s point person for the battle against climate change, will be joined by Bay Area officials and solar industry executives at the West Winton Landfill in Hayward, a centerpiece of a regional solar partnership of 19 local agencies in four Bay Area counties involving 186 solar facilities for a total of 31 megawatts of solar power. The Winton Landfill will be repurposed by installing 19,000 photovoltaic solar panels to generate over 6 megawatts of renewable power -- the first of its kind in the Bay Area and one of the largest in California.
McCarthy is also announcing the launch of a federal solar project, the first federal partnership to purchase solar power across multiple agencies, which was inspired by the success of the regional solar project and other Bay Area efforts. Like the regional project, the federal partnership -- Forest Service, Department of Energy, and General Services Administration -- will take advantage of economies of scale in solar installation at nine federal sites in San Jose, Menlo Park, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Bruno, Santa Rosa, Carson City, Reno, and Mare Island.

WHO:
Gina McCarthy, U.S. EPA Administrator
Richard Valle, Supervisor, District 2, Alameda County Board of Supervisors
Susan S. Muranishi, County Administrator, Alameda County
Bill Harrison, Mayor, City of Fremont
Sam Youneszadeh, Managing Director of Distributed Generation Sales for Western USA at SunEdison
Russell Hancock, President & CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley

WHEN:
Wed., May 13, 2015
Arrival: 10:00 AM
Event Start: 11:00 AM

WHERE:
West Winton Landfill at 4001 Winton Boulevard, Hayward

RSVP: News media please RSVP to Suzanne Skadowski, 415-972-3165, [email protected] and online at http://r-rep.splashthat.com/ with your media affiliation and contact information.

The Federal Green Challenge winners have been announced see here: http://www.epa.gov/federalgreenchallenge/awards/2015.html

2015 Federal Green Challenge Award Winners | US EPA In 2014, more than 400 participating facilities, representing nearly 1.3 million federal employees, "walked the talk" in various target areas (Waste, Electronics, Purchasing, Water, Energy and/or Transportation) and reduced their environmental footprint, which in many cases also resulted in signific…

WHY I'M PROUD TO SERVE> I've had close to 33 years of federal service, in the Dept. of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service, US Dept. of Labor (Wage & Hour Division, Office of Asst. Sec. for Admin. & Management, and OSHA), and for the last 4 years, with the San Francisco Bay Area Federal Executive Board., which has connected me with so many civilian, military, and postal colleagues who are dedicated and resilient. A day doesn't go by without a negative story somewhere about the federal government, but the federal workforce men and women that I've met stay focused on their agencies' missions, and on the constituents they serve. and keep delivering, no matter what. Proud to serve alongside them all.

From the Partnership for Public Service Webpage http://publicservicerecognitionweek.org/:
Honoring Our Public Servants.
Connecting Citizens with Their Government.
May 3–9, 2015

Celebrated the first week of May since 1985, Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) is organized annually by the Public Employees Roundtable (PER) and its member organizations to honor the men and women who serve our nation as federal, state, county and local government employees.

2015 Theme
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