10/26/2020

We had a successful drive-through election this evening.  33 members cast their ballots.  Thank you to those who participated!  Nominees for each executive board position ran unopposed:

Vice President - Kathy Unruh

Secretary - Rhonda Stinson

Editor - Liz Walle

Building Rep Coordinator B - Lisa Wolf

Sgt at Arms - Phoebe Grigsby

A special thank you to our Nominations and Elections Committee: Kari Madden and Melissa Roach.  Also, thank you to our volunteer members who came out to help facilitate the vote and the ballot count:  Melody Hardesty, Amy Kimmel, Betty Lewis, Susan Wright and Elizabeth Douglas.

Per our CBA, Veteran's Day, which is Wednesday, November 11th, will be a paid day off for all of our bargaining unit members.  If you currently work 4 days/week you will be paid for 5 days that week.

The Bylaws Committee has been working very hard to update TFP's current Bylaws.  A copy of the proposed Bylaw amendments can be found below.  Please review these changes carefully.  Please forward any questions or comments to Liz Walle, TFPsecretary@gmail.com.  We will be holding a special meeting via Zoom to discuss and vote on these Bylaw amendments on Monday, November 23, 2020. 

Elections: Our Nominations and Elections Committee has created special COVID19 rules for how our elections will be facilitated.  Those rules can be found on our website at the bottom of the "Important Documents" page.  The nominees are:

Vice president - Kathy Unruh 

Secretary - Rhonda Stinson
Editor - Liz Walle
Sgt at Arms- Phoebe Grigsby
Building rep coordinator B - Lisa Wolf

Elections: Monday, October 26th 4:30-6:30pm  This will be a drive-through election.

To summarize:  Members will arrive to the IBEW building, proceed down the right side of the building, sign-in, be handed a ballot, complete the ballot and drop in the ballot box.  Tally will be following the election by the committee and other member volunteers.

*MOUs are posted under the Important Documents tab*

*Impact Provisions

*Effects

*ASL Interpreters

*Leaves

Today, your bargaining team reached a tentative agreement on four (4) separate MOUs with the district.  We have solidified language around the effects of the June 1 personnel action, leaves, ASL and provisions going into the 20/21 school year. 

These agreements will be uploaded to the website for viewing within the next 24 hours.  

A huge thank you to the team that sacrificed portions of their summer and has put in endless hours during the negotiation process:

Kathy Unruh

Rhonda Stinson

Kari Madden

Lisa Wolf

Jana Quiocho

Liz Walle

Jazmyn Daniels

Glory Tichy

Know that this could not have been possible without the way our membership sprang into action on multiple occasions when prompted  These past four months have served a bigger purpose as well which is letting the district know we are a valuable part of the educational team and we deserve respect.  This concept is still not acknowledged by all upper admin within TPS but we are moving in the right direction thanks to the actions of our members!!