Dennis to STRS Board: What choices will you make now?

From: Dennis Leone

To: board@strsoh.org

Cc: asburyd@strsoh.org

Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006

Subject: Disgusting

TO ALL: I find it disgusting to read Hazel Sidaway's comments about "doing business" while she was attending a Broadway show (with free tickets for family members to boot). This is same kind of "malcontent" arrogance displayed by Joe Endry before he left the board, and it is exactly the same type of in-your-face snottiness displayed by Jack Chapman and Herb Dyer when they were the "caretakers" of my pension money between 1995 and 2003. I also find it very disturbing to read about the level of involvement of current and former STRS staff members in what truly had become a "culture of entitlement".........using the money of retired teachers.

Then again, there have been those who said that the spending abuses and misconduct were misrepresentations and exaggerations........just like the President of Iran doesn't really believe there was a Holocaust.

To my fellow board members: Do you still want to approve settlement agreements and vendor contracts without having them in hand? Do you still want the executive director to have the ability to pay $300,000 legal bills without the Board first discussing them? Do you still wish to continue paying STRS staff members their 13th check (also called "Annual Service Awards")? Do you still think it is okay to pay employees annually for unused sick leave (which becomes an additional pay check for those who have worked 7 1/2 years and have reached their severance potential maximum)?

Dennis Leone