Officers Meeting, 1999

August 24, 1999. Agenda; photos of Hobart and NYSUT vice president Antonia Cortese from Ellis Island event, May 8; memo from AFT president Sandra Feldman to Cortese, describing proposal by President Clinton for Medicare prescription drug plan, July 30; description of NYSUT's Local Union New Member Program; letter from League of Women Voters of New York State re "Students Inside Albany," four-day conference to increase awareness of citizen responsibility in representative government, June 1; results of evaluations of 1999 New Local Presidents' Conference; outline of discussion points of Leadership Training for Experienced Leaders; memo re increasing SRP (school-related personnel) participation in VOTE/COPE drives, July 23; letter to Hobart from the Cardinal's Committee of the Laity, thanking him for contribution of $3,000 to annual Construction and Building Industry Award Dinner, noting demand on Catholic Charities, July 21; 1999 report for the College Fund/UNCF (United Negro College Fund), with cover letter to Hobart, August 5; souvenir journal for 50th reunion of Brooklyn College (CUNY) Class of '49, with program and cover letter to Hobart from NYSUT Retired Educators' Chapter, Great Neck, June 4; New York Times clipping re Gov. Pataki's controversial appointment of former congressman and Bronx borough president Herman Badillo as chair of CUNY, May 31; NYT article on task force report on CUNY, June 8; Wall Street Journal article on charter schools in California, May 25; materials from the Epilepsy Foundation, NYS Labor-Religion Coalition, People for the American Way, Healing Fund (for victims of Columbine shooting), and others, thanking NYSUT for support; memo re meeting with NYS AFL-CIO president Denis Hughes, June 25; tentative agenda for June 24 meeting of Rochester Health Care Council; presentation re council; NYS AFL-CIO newsletter, Unity, with article re Zogby poll indicating wide support for raising minimum wage, May-June; document, Programs and Goals for 1984-85