POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

Mission Statement

To inform the Greece community about educational issues and support Greece Central School Board of Education candidates that model the ideals to promote growth and learning in the student population.
Political Action Committee members consist of NYSUT delegates and members of AGCEP that are interested in being politically involved.

• PAC attends monthly Board of Education meetings and community meetings.
• PAC participates in BOE member recognition/appreciation month during the October meeting.
• PAC interviews Board of Education candidates and decides who to endorse.
• PAC uses the phone banks at the NYSUT Rochester Regional office to make calls for budget votes and BOE candidate elections.
• PAC coordinates the annual VOTE COPE drive.
• PAC updates building representatives on all political action issues AGCEP is involved in.
• Delegates attend the Committee of 100 in March to lobby for educational issues that affect our local budget.
• Delegates attend the Representative Assembly annually to vote on educational issues that NYSUT lobbies for at the State and Federal levels of government.

NYSUT Delegates
Maureen Close Parkland
Bev Fisher Bridges
Marilyn Horton Autumn Lane

There are over 13,000 reasons to be policically involved To participate on the Political Action Committee contact one of the delegates listed above

WHAT IS VOTE COPE

VOICE OF THOSE IN EDUCATION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION

VOTE-COPE is the political action arm of NYSUT that is funded by voluntary contributions from members. VOTE-COPE is used to help union-backed candidates and campaign committees that support education and labor.

VOTE-COPE helps strengthen political action programs on all levels - national, state and local. VOTE-COPE provides rebates to participating unions for local political action.

Taken from NYSUT VOTE-COPE Flyer

For AGCEP's contributions in 2007-2008 we received 20% of our donations for local political action and 20% of our donation to cover expenses incurred supporting the local budget vote. A total of $900.00 was contributed to VOTE-COPE