Lloyd Knudsen to STRS Board re: Webcasting

From Lloyd Knudsen, April 23, 2007 10:57 PM
Subject: Webcasting STRS meetings

Dear STRS Board Member,

I find it most distressing that the STRS Board is considering NOT doing a webcast of future monthly board meetings. As a retired member of two county RTA groups (Medina County and Summit County) I can assure you that Webcasting the monthly STRS meeting is of great importance to great numbers of RETIRED teachers.

I find it interesting that when Webcasting was first proposed, STRS officials deemed it "cost prohibitive." Now that the cost has been found to be reasonable we seem to be searching for other excuses not to offer this service to your members.

I believe STRS does a great job of providing member services. In this technological age Webcasting would be another important service you could provide your members that would be neither costly nor labor-intensive.

Please give greater thought to following Governor Strickland's directive of making public meetings more accessible to affected members.

All teachers need more information on THEIR retirement system than just a quarterly newsletter and web site postings from STRS. Thank you for listening.

Lloyd Knudsen