Brothers and Sisters,
First and foremost a huge round of applause for the outgoing Area Rep as well as long time Secretary Rick Lund. He has served us well over the years and his commitment and dedication are unparalleled. Its a thankless job most of time, so again THANKS UW!
Rick Already covered most of the ongoing issues in his last update, I only have a few things to add. As of right now Troy is scheduled to meet with Chuck on Monday to hopefully finalize everything so that we can move forward with bidding. We will then still need time to brief everyone and its only a guess at this point but possibly Jan. 11th to begin bidding. In the meantime I urge everyone to continue submitting SF-71's via webschedules during already published and upcoming schedule requests.
Rick is going to stay on to help with the bidding process and will most likely have someone on the other side of the schedule to assist in moving bidding along. The same as in years past we will be setup on Google Docs and hopefully we can get through the first couple rounds rather quickly.
As Rick alluded to I will be out of the building for an extended period of time and staying on top of the day-to-day type of things won't always be possible so I have Ligaya filling in for me in the meantime. That being said I'm going to stay involved as possible and if you need anything don't hesitate to shoot me an email or give me a call.
Contact Info:
kipkarsh@gmail.com or 206-940-6769
ligayaandrews@gmail.com
I look forward to the challenges ahead serving as your B-Area Rep. 2016 holds a lot of variables including an expiring contract as well as Presidential elections, and the ever-looming privitization questions. I urge everyone to stay/get involved (this is a convention year as well). Some of you have only seen "redbook" days, but as we all know tides can change quickly.
Don't forget there is an all members meeting Monday January 11th at 3pm, Spunky Monkey. This will be a good chance for us to address all of the questions that may arise from the Leave MOU implementation.
Kip Karsh