Release 1977 issues a one-time program, PPOT1977, to distribute one-time 
lump sum payments for eligible members of the RX and TX bargaining units as 
spcified in the January 7, 2011 side letter between UPTE and the UC.   The 
release can be skipped for ASUCLA and Hastings, which have no RX or TX 
employees.  Eligibility criteria can be found in release documents.  Outputs 
from the one-time program are:

-	FT payment transactions broken out by employee primary pay 
schedule: MO, MA, BW, and SM.  Each transaction file will have a batch card 
specifying batch number 599.  Santa Cruz, that collides with your rush check 
batch number, so we’ll need an alternate number.  All sites should be careful 
to avoid use of the designated batch number for other purposes in the lump 
sum payment computes.
-	A tab-delimited audit file.  We’ll make it available as:   
PP*.R1977.ELECFILE.USR
-	A costing file.  A lump sum costing file may or may not produce 
useful results when processed, as opposed to a file representing hires or wage 
increases.
-	Warning and Control Report OT19772 (there is no OT19771 report).  
It will identify employees with eligible appointments but no eligible distributions 
and display record counts and dollar totals broken out by pay cycle.

In order to accommodate the differences in included titles at each campus, 
the one-time program was designed to work from a "local parameter file".  The 
released version of the program is accompanied by a default local parameter 
file that speifies all titles in RX and all titles in TX receive a 0.5% payment.  
That file should work for Davis, Riverside and Santa Barbara.  

Local parameter files were created by UCOP HR&B and distributed earlier to 
Santa Cruz and San Diego.  I will retrieve those parameter files from my 
contacts in HR&B.  

Berkeley and Irvine:  we will be in contact with you in separate communication 
regarding your parameter file and use (or not) of the one-time program. 

There are no table updates.

Per the release letter, ‘The timing of this release is Date Mandated.  Lump sum 
payments must be issued on or before the following:

Pay Cycle Pay              Period End Date
BW                            05/28/2011
SM                            05/31/2011
MO / MA                     06/30/2011

May we have your ok to install?  Let us know if/when you would like us to 
process the costing file.  And, Santa Cruz, we’ll need an alternate batch 
number.