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General Meeting

3rd Thursday of each month

3:30pm

                

Negotiations

Every Tuesday 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Hancock County High School Library

 

 

~~Negotiations Update/A Special Message from our President~~

 

Dear HCTA members,

 

After many hours of negotiations, a tentative contract agreement has been reached.  I want to thank our negotiating team for their patience and dedication in seeing this task to completion.  They have sacrificed much of their time to a project that will benefit all of us.  I want them to know that we appreciate all of their efforts.

 

There are copies of the tentative agreement available for your review in the teacher work areas at both schools.  When possible, read over the document.  Please do not remove the document from the work areas so that all members may have a chance to review it.  There will be a special meeting on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at the Elementary School Library at 3:30 p.m.  Members of the negotiation team will be available to answer any questions. 

 

On Monday, March 5, 2007, members of the H.C.T.A. will be asked to vote to either ratify or not ratify the tentative agreement.  If the majority of the voting members ratify the agreement, then the school board will vote to ratify or not to ratify the tentative agreement very soon afterwards.  I am very excited; as I am sure you are, about having this contract ratified.  Please contact your Board member and request his support in ratifying this contract and thank him for his cooperation in reaching the tentative agreement.

 

I want to thank each and every member for your support during this somewhat difficult task of negotiating our first [ever] contract.  I am hopeful that this agreement will help to attract new teachers to our system and that it will help us to retain the wonderful teachers that we already have.  Thank you for the great job that each of you do every day.  I know it is a challenging and often thankless career we have chosen, but it is an important one.  Without teachers, the ordered transmission of knowledge and ideas from one generation to another would stop.  We have a great responsibility.  Civilization, as we know it, is counting on us!

 

Respectfully yours,

 

Bobby Keaton