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Sep 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#mapoli #maedu So got some school committee stuff to catch up on...

First, policy subcommittee will be meeting tomorrow at 5pm at the Mercer Administration Building. (1/4)
I will be presenting at the beginning portion of the meeting on all of the polices highlighted in yellow, as those are my policy proposals to change how student representatives work!

Policy proposals + presentation will be on my sometime tomorrow! (2/4)
Then the school committee is having a rare special meeting this Thursday at 6:30PM remotely to hopefully approve new contracts with the bargaining units under the Pittsfield Federation of School Employees, which I have discussed here in great detail (3/4)
Except to see a live-tweet thread on that Thursday meeting, and a decently long executive session! (4/4)

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Sep 8
#mapoli #maedu Very important Pittsfield School Committee meeting happening in about 15 minutes!

You can watch it only on PCTV Channel 1302 as it will not be broadcast anywhere else.
Tonight they will (hopefully) be voting to approve new contracts for 4 bargaining units under the Pittsfield Federation of School Employees: paras, bus drivers and assistants, cafeteria workers, and secretaries.

Background on the contracts before then
All four bargaining units should have finished up their votes to ratify the contracts by now. If they ratified them, then the school committee will be able to approve them tonight and they will go into effect immediately!
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Sep 7
So let me finish this thread up shall we! (1/7)
For state senator: @RepPaulMark
Why: It was a pretty obvious choice to make. He lives in a very rural part of the state (I still remember being on a Zoom with him where he was doing it from his car due to the internet out there), and he will be a great advocate for the county 2/
For DA: Timothy Shugrue
Why: Both candidates had a lot of good and bad stuff, and in the end I made the determination that Shugrue was the better person to vote for. But if another progressive was running (such as Judith Knight), I probably would have voted for them tbh. (3/7)
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Sep 6
I voted!! Image
Wasn't feeling the greatest tbh, but I am glad I was able to participate in the democratic process for the first time!
Next stop: Somerset Fire Station Image
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Sep 3
#mapoli #maedu Big News: 4 Bargaining units of the Pittsfield Federation of School Employees will be voting to ratify new contracts this week! The 4 units are paras, secretaries, cafeteria, and bus operations! The custodial unit isn't listed on the site (1/26)
Contract negotiations between the Federation and the School Committee have been a long time coming, with a lot of negotiations spilling over into anger and public outcry by the Federation. It has been very tense for sure.

iberkshires.com/story/67923/Ad…

(2/26)
The Federation and the School Committee ended up going to mediation with the state's Department of Labor Relations, which ended back in June.

iberkshires.com/story/67823/Pi…

(3/26)
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Jun 28
Keen eyes may have noticed something in the agenda for tomorrow's Pittsfield City Council meeting. Image
The first petition regarding the school maintained budget is pretty much moot due to the mayor's agreement to implement the budget the city council voted on. iberkshires.com/story/68650/Pi… Image
But the second petition is the one I really want to see happen, a reactivated Youth Commission. Two recent letters to the editor in the Berkshire Eagle prove my point. Image
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