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We are proud of the many accomplishments we have achieved as well as the multitude of individual problems we have been able to assist and resolve. We appreciate your confidence and support as we move into the summer months preparing for an even better 2007– 2008 school year. We appreciate your membership and want you to continue in your support of FWEA and all of our efforts to represent the teachers in FWCS and public education.
However, our legal counsel advises us to remind members each year of the process the FWEA Constitution and Bylaws requires if a person wishes to drop his/her membership.

The FWEA Constitution and Bylaws require that cancellation of membership must take place between August 15 and the third Monday in September (September 17, 2007). FWEA Bylaws Article II, Section 3, states:

“All membership authorizations shall be continuing membership authorization. Such an authorization by an individual teacher shall remain in effect from year to year until and unless the teacher shall notify the President of the Association in writing at the Fort Wayne Education Association office of a decision to revoke the previously made authorization. Revocation of such authorization may be made only during the period beginning August 15 and ending the third Monday in September of each year.
A member wishing to be released from his/her dues obligation after the revocation deadline shall request in writing a waiver from the deadline to the President. The President shall submit the request to the Representative Assembly at its next meeting after receipt of the request by the President. By a majority vote of the delegates, the Representative Assembly shall have the discretion to grant the request.”

If you are going on a leave of absence for the 2007–2008 school year you should call April at the FWEA office so she can change your membership status and dues level.