CORE to meet April 15, 2010

From CORE, April 6, 2010

CORE (Concerned Ohio Retired Educators) will hold its April meeting on Thursday, April 15th 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 meeting which usually begins around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday in the meeting room on the 6th floor but this beginning time varies from month to month. Lately the STRS meetings have been held most of the day on Friday as well as Thursday. For this reason, we encourage you to check the STRS website (www.strsoh.org) to confirm the time.

Please remember that CORE meeting attendees usually leave the STRS meeting around 11:30 in order to go to the cafeteria on the 2nd floor to get our lunches. We then take our lunches to the small cafeteria room behind the Sublett Room on the 2nd floor of the STRS building where the CORE meeting will begin promptly at 11:45.

If you have suggestions for the April CORE meeting agenda, please send a reply 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 written by a CORE committee, will be available for distribution at the April 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 April meeting, members can pick up copies of flyers for candidates for the upcoming spring STRS Board elections. At the February CORE meeting, members voted to endorse Jim Stoll and Dale Price as candidates for the two active teacher seats on the STRS Board. At the April CORE meeting, we will be discussing ways to promote these candidates to the active teachers in Ohio who will be voting on these two open seats. Ballots should already be in the buildings. We need your ideas for reaching active teachers as we compete with the deep pockets of OEA.