Coalition for Glen Cove

Agenda of the Coalition for Glen Cove meeting

Monday 3 February 2003, 7:30 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Announcement

The Record Pilot ran a picture of the 2003 Coalition officers.

The Coalition website at www.coalitiongc.org has been unavailable for the past week. Our web hosting company says it suffered an electronic break-in to the computer that stored our site. The site has been transferred to a new computer but they have no estimate about when the address of our site on the new computer will be propagated around the internet.

Discussion

We will have a meeting of anyone who is thinking, has thought, or will think about running for Glen Cove school board. If you know anyone in this category reply to this email and we will invite them. After the meeting the Coalition will vote on who we want to endorse for school board in May. If you can organize the vote for the candidate the Coalition will endorse, please let me know.

We will arrange to invite community leaders to visit the schools in the next few months. Another invitation will go out to real-estate salespeople.

We will send out an annual fund-raising letter in the next few weeks. If you have names of people who should be in the Coalition, please submit them. If you are willing to work on record keeping and thank you letters let me know.

If you would like to interview a school district person for the Record Pilot and Gazette please let me  know.

Several people have expressed dismay about the number of experienced high school teachers who have left the district in the past few years. Are these routine retirements and career advancements or do some teachers feel that they are disrespected and have no voice in the administration of their departments or school? There have also been two recent inflamed letters to the local papers insulting the school district’s administrators and teachers. Since the Coalition is in the middle of preparations for the school board election in May, we should postpone discussion of this issue, if we want to deal with it at all, until after the election.