Important Informational Meeting

A big thanks goes out AGAIN to all of the members that came out to support the team last night. It must have been very encouraging for our team, as they came away with another bargaining date with the other team. That was our goal: KEEP BOTH SIDES TALKING! Well done, everyone!

What's next? We will have a General Membership Meeting tomorrow morning (9/30) from 7:00 - 7:30 am in the Holland High School Auditorium. It will be a quick but important bargaining update and a look at what our work will be in the days ahead. If that leaves you with a big timeframe before your school day begins, go out to breakfast with fellow members to discuss issues or just to celebrate!

Tonight we will run the phone tree once again, beginning at 9:00pm. We need everyone's help in closing the remaining gaps in this very important communications system. Please remember the general phonetree guidelines:

1. Have a copy of your phone tree at home and handy.

2. When you receive your call, write the message down to insure accuracy.

3. Call the next person on the list and relay the very same message. If you should reach an answering machine, leave the message on the machine and call the next person on the list to keep the tree going. If you get no answer and no machine, again, skip to the next person on the list. Don't stop until you've relayed the message to another live member.

4. Please do NOT leave messages with spouses, children or anyone else besides the member his-/herself. We cannot/should not rely on anyone other than members to transmit the message.

5. The last person on the list has the responsibility to call the AR that started your branch of the tree in order to confirm transmission of the message throughout the list.

Another request: AS you hear about them (like this email for example), please talk about these and all other HEA events with your fellow members in your buildings ("Did you hear about the meeting tomorrow?"). We apparently have some gaps in this email system as well and would like to reslove them. If you can identify someone that is NOT recieving these GroupWise notices, please contact me.

MENTORS: Please bring your mentees along on this HEA business. I hope that you can be there to help them understand their membership responsibilities (attending meetings, for starters). If you should have any questions about the mentor's role in the context of HEA business, please let me know.

Thank you ahead of time for your cooperation and participation in phone trees, attending meeting outside the school day, etc.