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From the CMC President, Richard Green
Hello and welcome to the Custodial, Maintenance
and Cafeteria website (CMC./MEA/NEA).
The CMC is a part of the Farmington/Farmington Hills community and has the
responsibility to provide a clean, safe, and healthy environment for the
students and staff of the Farmington Public School District. We currently
have two hundred and six members in our unit and their dedication and pride
in their work continue to make our District one of the Premier Districts
in the State of Michigan. Our staff has experience ranging from recently
hired to more than forty years and we continue to learn, grow, and expand
on our abilities to perform and improve our function within the District.
Through annual trainings, new product research and a cooperative relationship
with the District Administrators combined with our interactions with the
Community, parents, other staff and the students all help us to be more
efficient at performing our job functions.
This staff understands that the education of our children is the first priority
of any successful school district and we hope that through a continuing
collaborative relationship with the parents and community we will be able
to continue the necessary support to aid in providing that quality education
to our children.
It is our sincere hope that you will find this website useful.
Sincerely,
Richard A. Green- President
Farmington C.M.C.-MEA/NEA
FPS Support Person of the Year
Gill Elementary School's Mark Terry wins Farmington Public Schools
Support Person of the Year
Gill Elementary School’s Mark Terry,
head custodian, has been selected for this years ”Distinguished Support
Service Award” for Farmington Public Schools. Mark has been a part
of Farmington Public Schools for 29 years. He has been head custodian for
Gill Elementary for the last nine years. His positive attitude, quality
of his work, and willingness to lead a helping hand far exceed the demands
of his position. Mark also takes part in the school system as a PTA member,
as part of the FPS Green Team and a member of the school’s crisis
team. Besides Mark’s contributions to the District, he volunteers
to play Santa for the Providence Hospital Cranial unit, has been a special
guest reader during March is Reading Month, as well as participating on
the Beautification Committee. Mark also works on the Fall and Spring Cleanups
for Gills grounds. Mark’s personal commitment to make sure that every
child has a place that is safe, secure and welcoming, often reaching out
to struggling students, or those that need special attention, is typical
of his caring nature. Mark will be honored, Tuesday April 21, 2009 at the
Board of Education meeting. Mark’s nomination will now be submitted
to the Oakland County School Board’s Association Betty Campion Distinguished
Support Service Award Program.
Diane Bauman, APR
Director, School/Community Relations
Farmington Public Schools
April 26, 2009
Julie Brubaker wins Dove award
(Story from Farmington Observer
April 26, 2009)
"Julie Brubaker was awarded The Arc of
Oakland County Dove Support Professional Award in a School Setting for 2009.
Julie has been employed by Farmington Public Schools for more than 25 years,
most recently as a building custodian at the Maxfield Training Center and
as a transitional job site supervisor for two to three post-secondary students
per year. Julie takes the time to get to know each of her students and values
each student as an individual. Not only does she give them the opportunity
to acquire job skills, she allows them to “grow” by giving them
more responsibility and independence as they demonstrate appropriate skills.
Julie stands out in Farmington Public Schools for her extraordinary dedication
to make a difference to the students with whom she works. The Arc of Oakland
County, Inc. (“The Arc”) is a non-profit organization funded
in part by the United Way for Southeastern Michigan and generous individual
donors. The Arc works directly with children and adults within all levels
of intellectual and other related developmental disabilities and their families.
They are advocates for the rights and full participation of people with
intellectual and other related disabilities. The Arc works to improve the
systems and support services, connect families and influence public policy.
There were 23 different types of Dove Awards in 17 different categories,
including Distinguished Service, The Presidents Award, Inclusion Leadership
Award, as well as Employer of the Year and Provider of the Year to name
a few. Three categories make up the 2009 Support Professionals Awards —
Workshop, Residential and School Setting.
Julie was honored at the 39th Dove Award Presentation on March 27."
Current Events
*Farmington
public school board members honored by MASB
*Bill Bonds on "Right to Work" (For less) initiative View
the clip!!!!
*Jumpstart the economy by
investing in schools. Iris Salters, MEA President.
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*Warner Middle School Crusaders
would like your support. (Click Here)
*We have had 6 Newsletters
published to date. Our next newsletter will be distributed in January
2009. If you would like to share a news-worthy article/story that would
be beneficial to the membership please send it to
Don Cobrea. Also send in a favorite recipe.
Didn't receive a newsletter? You can view and download the March,
May, September 06 - February, September 07 - January 09 from the News Letter
page.
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MEA Privatization Complaint Box
MEA Launches the Privatization
Complaint Box. In order to balance the one-sided media coverage of privatization,
the MEA has launched the Privatization Complaint Box, a service that allows
school workers to file
complaints about the shoddy work done by the privateers that replaced
school employees. MEA receives these complaints often enough that an effort
to collect them in an organized and searchable form is called for. The
complaint box serves as a storehouse of complaints that are provided to
answer media inquiries and to generate statistics to counter those published
by conservative "think tanks." The
complaints can also be used to put the school’s administration on
notice that substandard work is not going unnoticed and that it is being
held accountable for the decision to outsource this work.
File your complaints at: http://www.mymea.org/PrivatizationComplaint/
Howell and Hartland privatization.
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Last updated: 05/1/2009
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