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Hello,
What informational session are you referring to? I have not received the previously mentioned newsletter or any announcement about an informational session nor an Annual Meeting. Personally I don't want to drop affiliation with the MEA but I don't like the way the APA is handling it's affairs. There is a real need for accountability and transparency not only in Washington DC but here in East Lansing, MI as well. I guess this is why some APA members put up the site http://www.apawatchgroup.org/

Many of the issues discussed in the last few days have been taken up this year by the APA Watchgroup. While not a member of this group myself I have supported some of their positions regarding these issues.

Last year at the annual meeting in November the members exercised their APA constitutional right to bring up a motion that would call the APA board to accountability on finances. Then Chairman Sell declared that our publicized annual meeting was really an "informational session" and therefore members had no rights to place a motion on the table. I hope that under a new chair such shameful actions will not occur.

I am an APA member in good standing and I support the APA/MEA. I just want accountability, transparency and democracy. MVK



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From:    "Kwiatkowski, Nicholas" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: APA raise

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Ehren et. all,
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Yesterday evening I attended one of the informational sessions that the =
APA hosted in Com Arts regarding the increase.  There were something =
like 5 or 6 of us there.  While we didn't really get any straight =
answers as to the increase, but we did get the following (this quote is =
as close as I was able to short hand it down)

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