CORE meeting March 27, 2008

From CORE, March 14, 2008

CORE (Concerned Ohio Retired Educators) will hold its March meeting on Thursday, March 27th at the STRS Building at 275 East Broad Street in Columbus. Parking is free in the STRS parking garage behind the building. We encourage you to attend the STRS Board meeting which usually begins around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday in the meeting room on the 6th floor.

CORE meeting attendees generally leave the STRS Board meeting around 11:30 a.m. in order to go to the cafeteria on the second floor to get our lunches. We then take our lunches to the small cafeteria room behind the Sublett Room on the second floor of the STRS building where the CORE meeting will begin promptly at 11:45.

In response to suggestions from membership, CORE is calling for input for agenda items for this March 27th meeting. Please send any agenda item you would like discussed to John Curry (curryjo@watchtv.net). John will forward your suggestions to CORE President, Dave Parshall. In order to have an agenda in place and printed for the meeting, please send your item no later than Tuesday, March 25th. Any agenda items received after March 25th will be held over to the April CORE meeting.

Dan Vincent is the CORE-endorsed candidate for the STRS Board election (active educator seat) replacing John Lazares, whose term ends this summer. We have sent Dan Vincent campaign flyers to many of you. If you need more flyers, they will be available at the meeting.

We will be discussing how the campaign is going throughout our state. We encourage you to attend and bring a friend to join us to become familiar with our organization. CORE needs new faces and new members. We also need new speakers to address the Public Speaks portion of the STRS Board meeting which immediately follows our CORE meeting.