Recent Events

Hi again MLEA members,

A few items of interest that I wanted to make you aware of:

*Two weeks ago we sent a team to the Budget Analysis Training that the WEA-Eastern office puts on every year. Representing Medical Lake were Tina Francis of the high school, Melissa Madsen and Kate Gandolf from Anderson, Jeremy Clark from Hallett, and Stephanie Lundberg from Medical Lake Elementary. The information that comes out of a good budget training is incredible, and I look forward to sharing more of it with you in the coming weeks!

*I'm receiving word that provisional employees are being notified of their provisional status. I will be coming around to every building at least once before the spring break; for anyone in that boat, I'd like to talk with you and go over some of the options we have.

*The most recent word trickling out of Olympia is that the House and Senate will be unveiling pieces of the budget in the coming weeks; as soon as the Education budget comes out there will be a tidal wave of information for all of us to process. Please know that I'm watching all the different pieces of the pie very closely, and that we're going to work like hell to get through this in a way that's fair to everybody.

*On April 20th your MLEA exec board, along with past president Wendy Stewart, is attending an evening workshop on how RIF and non-renewal work. It's knowledge that I'm hoping we won't need, but it's knowledge we need to have.

*If you have any questions, please ask--that's what we're here for!

With thanks,

--Ryan, for the MLEA Exec Board--