Friday, July 10, 2009

Shirlee Zerkel: Some questions for Tim Myers

From Shirlee Zerkel, July 10, 2009
Subject: Saw you on TV
Dear Tim,
I saw you on the evening news Thursday evening. I noted that you said in the interview that the active teachers will bear the brunt of the cuts. Can you please explain how that can be? Any cuts to those of us who are retired and unable to work will be deep and terrible cuts. We retirees have already suffered many cuts over the last 7 years. You also mentioned at the meeting that only 79 retirement systems out of 109 use the cola benefit. Tim, that is over 3/4 of the systems and STRS is among the 3/4. Isn't being in the majority a good place to be?
Shirlee Zerkel
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