CORE to meet March 18, 2010

From CORE, March 5, 2010

CORE (Concerned Ohio Retired Educators) will hold its March meeting on Thursday, March 18th 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 also attend the STRS Board meeting which usually begins around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday in the meeting room on the 6th floor. The start time varies from month to month, so we suggest you check with the STRS website (www.strsoh.org) to confirm the time. The STRS Board meetings usually include Friday as well as Thursday so you might want to check on this too.

Please remember that CORE meeting attendees usually leave the STRS meeting around 11:30 on Thursday in order to get lunch in the cafeteria room (behind the Sublett Room) on the second floor of the STRS building, where the CORE meeting will begin promptly at 11:45.

If you have suggestions for the March CORE meeting agenda, please send them to John Curry at curryjo@watchtv.net so that he can relay this information to CORE president, Dave Parshall.

Copies of the media letter, recently generated by a CORE committee, will be available for distribution at the March CORE meeting. Members can use this media letter in writing letters to the editor of newspapers in response to the recent criticism of public pensions. Also at the March meeting, members can pick up copies of flyers for candidates for the upcoming Spring STRS Board elections. At last month's CORE meeting, members voted to endorse Jim Stoll and Dale Price as candidates for the two active teacher seats on the STRS Board. We need to discuss ways to promote these candidates to the active teachers in Ohio who will be voting on these two open seats. We need your ideas for reaching the active teachers. Please plan to join us as we prepare our election strategies.