Cabinet Meeting 10/25/05, 2005

Agenda; notes from September 27 Cabinet meeting; annual report of the general counsel to the executive director and officers for the 2004-2005 administrative year; 2004-05 Organizing Report; evaluation form, NYSUT Board of Directors' Retreat, September 16-18, 2005; letter from NYSUT president Richard Ianuzzi to Gerald Reynolds, chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, expressing deep concern over remarks Reynolds made re Albany City School District, noting diversion of millions of dollars in funds from public education by unproven charter schools, lack of federal funding for No Child Left Behind mandates, September 28; background paper, "Current Increases in Energy Costs Present a Serious Problem for School Districts Operating Under a Contingency Budget, and an Opportunity to Change the Rules," with recommended resolution urging the addition of energy costs to expenditures exempt from contingency budget spending caps