9-23-09

LEA general lack of interest in serving/membership in past

communication e-mail face-to-face social networking????

10 min meetings - schedule meetings (after AR and after staff meetings) publicize agenda (on this wiki)

Member Advocacy

Denver Post - free online subscription to every teacher - form to fax in

EclipseCrossword.com (blocked by district filter)

classes for salary advancement credits

NEA regional representative for Member Benefits - Sean Mabey smabey@neamb.com

California Casualty Insurance - not sold to public - focus membership - to low risk careers only

Raffle/Giveaway - cheap crap - irritating - waste of time

Student Teachers - can join for lower cost - if they join after they begin teaching, they can get their student dues refunded

NEA - money market accounts

NEA - a professional organization, influences working conditions, just like lawyers or doctors, or engineers - what does the work environment look like without the organization

E-mail date for Mary to come over to Options/Pathways to talk about Amendment 23, etc.

Amendment 23 2008 - PERA lost 25% of assetts value = $10Billion in losses what can be done to help PERA? 1. contributions coming in from employers 2. contributions from employees 3. benefits paid to future retirees


 * cannot cut current retirees benefits

shared responsibility by retirees, current employees, future empoyees

current employee = 8% - expect to see increases employer increases (current phased in increase is 0.9% per year till 2014 - will be 16%) currently 13% limit retirees COLA (3.5% increases written in stone currently

Jan 13, 2010 - legislative session to make changes

PERA board - Scott Murphy is member

- how many retirees are there compared to contributing members?

October 18th? next PERA board meeting - when they will make recommendations

Honor Amendment 23 - if state legislature decides to take back the 1.9%, it may be in violation of the state constitution

current per pupil funding in littleton = $7000 per student, looking at a loss of about $600 per student over next two years

INTRO to BOARD POLICIES 2 teacher strikes in history 1974 - tore community apart contracts after that were limited, due to school board politics current contract is a limited scope contract compared to other districts, other things are still in Board Policies

before there was a "contract", everything was handled in Board Policy