James Rayner
James Rayner
concerns friends-or-friendship hearing people talked
We talked about concerns that they are hearing from their people and friends and neighbors.
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We all remember the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise won the race, but the hare didn't keep the same schedule.
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We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.
commit eligible retire
If they're eligible now, they can retire now. If they're eligible to retire in '07, they can commit now and still be part of this program.
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One of the things I heard when I got here was that we educate our children so well that they go someplace else to be successful. That's a challenge our whole community has to work on, to have them be successful back here.
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If we impose any or all of our last, best final offer it does not change the requirement to continue to negotiate. What we impose only becomes a new status quo. It is not a new contract.
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My great curiosity is how the union will respond to this. I think the fact finder has sent a very strong message with regard to health insurance. I wonder whether the teachers will see it that way or not.
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The primary concern was certainly are we going to keep Norrie open. We don't want to spend money to improve a building just to turn around and close it before the ink dries on the check.
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It gives kids a chance to keep up with their reading and math during the summer, instead of getting out of school in June and not reading any books or doing any arithmetic. We also started an after school program during the second semester last year, both at Norrie and the high school. Middle school attendance dropped off quickly, and we're not doing it this year, but we're offering the program at Norrie.
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The $25,000 is about what we save the first year.
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I think the point of it is it brings an outside person into the picture who doesn't know either party to collect facts and make a recommendation. It provides a basis for renewed negotiation, I would say.
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We talk about cuts here and cuts there but there's really not much that was available to kids three years ago that's not available now.
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There is no pay increase between now and June 30, 2007.
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We have some very talented people, and as we have people taking early retirements we're going to have some young people here. I think that's going to energize everybody.