Coalition for Glen Cove

Coalition for Glen Cove Meeting
Tuesday 13 February  2001 7 PM
at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Agenda

Recently Achieved

Janet Bates-Wilkins and Natheley McElrath will run for school board. We expect that the Coalition will endorse their candidacy.

Robert Germino and Kurt Schmeller have also picked up petititons.

Natheley and Janet will circulate a petition to have the school board term changed from five years to three years.

Angela Hamel has persuaded Susan Johnson, the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel, to send us a set of job descriptions for administrators. The descriptions have been summarized on the Coalition website.

For discussion:

Leslie Whitely has the bookmark that the Coalition will distribute to senior centers and elsewhere. We also hope to publish it in the Record Pilot.

Leslie Whitely is working to organize a meeting between Dr. Freeley and Glen Cove, Locust Valley, Sea Cliff, and Glen Head real rstate brokers.

Jean and Chuck Kuttruff will send letters to community leaders inviting them to the second school visit day on March 8. Nancy Cleary will coordinate the visits with the building principals.

Natheley McElrath and Ian Siegel are working on arranging a fund-raising brunch. Ian has gotten price estimates from Steamboat landing and from the Metropolitan.

The candidate committee has met with Dr. Freeley.

We would like to send absentee ballots requests to homes of graduates of the past four years.

Don Ranieri has arranged that he, Janet Bates-Wilkins, and Don Scarl speak at the Center Club at the Glen Cove Senior Center on March 5. We would like to speak at meetings of civic groups. We will ask churches about church groups we could speak to (Don Ranieri)

For information:

If you are willing to help with any of the things above or below, just do it, and let us know. We rely on Coalition members to choose their activities and work on them independently. The Coalition, of course, can always help with advice, information, and support.

We would like to collect numbers that show the performance of Glen Cove schools and students in comparison with other districts.

Help people sign up for STAR exemptions (Janet Bates-Wilkins

Explain mechanics of elections to new voters

Put Coalition literature in boxes in GC Library.

Involve parents of ESL students and parents who do not now participate in their children’s education.

Make list of losses caused by austerity budget.

Send notice about Coalition to all GC teachers’ mailboxes. Request, paragraphs, pictures Achievements: National State County