Meeting minutes

In the important dates section of the site you are now able to click on the dates of meetings to be taken to the minutes of that meeting. It is available for Building rep. and board meetings.

Building Rep. Meeting rescheduled

The building rep. meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, October 24. Same time and place as usual. Please pass the word.

Important Info

The building rep. meeting scheduled for 10/17/07 has been canceled. We are trying to reschedule it for next Wednesday, 10/24/07. More information will follow.

Update

RGNEA Members,
(this update is also available on the "President's Page" on the main site)

As we strive to get the administration to come back to the table to
continue the negotiations with us, it will be very important to the
negotiation team for you to show us the documentation for how much
time has been already used in your "Monday (now anyday) Meetings".
Building Representatives, please send me a list of the dates and the
length of time of the meeting as we need the time totals up to now.
Have someone you trust in the building keep track of the date of all
meetings and the length of time for all of the past and future
meetings and then let me know when we hit the 15-16 hour mark.

Negotiations still remain stalled although Gilbert, Theresa and I had
a two hour meeting last week with the superintendents in an attempt to
push them toward returning to the table and resolving some of the
issues. They still insist on training for the administration team. A
bit of forward progress was made in the PD portion of the package on
the table. My concern is that we, in good faith, allowed the
administration to move forward on the PD plan with the agreement that
the time spent would be a part of the agreement in the end. Some
buildings have used up to 15-25% of the 18 hours and now I hear the
administration is telling teachers that the time put in this year on
PD may not be applied to the 18 hours. If that information verifies,
that move would put a big dent in the negotiations as again we would
have been told one thing and had the administration do something else.
So basically, we still are not close enough on terms to settle the PD
or any other issue. Your negotiation team still is fighting the
battle.

Richard Thies
RGNEA President

Payroll Deductions

RGNEA dues will begin the deduction period with the October 5th paycheck. If there are any discrepancies, then contact Lisa Vitale at x4893 or Theresa Beck at x4466. All payroll deduction forms submitted after September 24, will not begin their deduction period until the October 20th paycheck.