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Your local Jefferson County school board appoints district administrators to negotiate with union leaders over how employees are paid, teacher and staff working conditions, and various union perks. The JCEA teacher’s union bargaining agreement says “Negotiations shall be conducted in open sessions, unless both parties agree to the contrary.”

But negotiations started in secret without any formal approval from the board. When one board member, Laura Boggs, raised the issue at an April 21 meeting, a motion to close negotiations was blocked with a 2-2 tie vote. Now the district has temporarily suspended negotiations and needs to hear from the taxpayers which way to go.

Click here: http://www.kintera.org/c.7pLELQPAIgLUH/b.6610563/k.8B81/Action_Center/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=7pLELQPAIgLUH&b=6610563&aid=15841&tr=y&auid=8249724 to contact the Jefferson County Board of Education and tell them to support taxpayers and good government by clearly voting to open negotiations with teacher and other employee unions.
We all know the importance of government transparency and the power of citizen action. Down in Colorado Springs District 11, citizen action has forced some union negotiations to open up for citizens to observe.