{"id":16202,"date":"2016-04-15T05:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=16202"},"modified":"2016-04-15T05:55:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:55:34","slug":"board-mea-urged-to-negotiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2016\/04\/15\/board-mea-urged-to-negotiate\/","title":{"rendered":"Board, MEA urged to negotiate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY STACI WILSON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents, parents, bus contractors and former administrative leaders in the Montrose Area School District urged both the board and the teachers\u2019 union to hold talks in order to resolve the ongoing contract dispute.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly two weeks on the picket line, Montrose students returned to the classroom on Tuesday, April 12.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Kiehl, a Montrose Area teacher who is also part of the MEA negotiating committee, told the board the union had called for a meeting with \u201cjust Montrose people\u201d with lawyers for both sides before Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Carol Boyce said that when a district goes to a strike, a mediator is needed. She said the district was going to retain the formal process.<\/p>\n<p>Kiehl also said a letter was sent from the teachers\u2019 PSEA representative in an effort to avert the strike but it went unanswered by the district.<br \/>\nThe board maintained it would only discuss and refer to what was included on the district website and a handout distributed at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have the biggest audience in the past 30 years and you\u2019re not going to discuss anything?\u201d Kiehl questioned.<\/p>\n<p>Former Montrose superintendent Michael Ognosky said, \u201cYou\u2019ve gotten the people out. They\u2019re here,\u201d referring to the crowd in the high school auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>He said he came to the meeting to speak about administrative secretary Diane Truman whose retirement was accepted at the March meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He said Truman\u2019s retirement was accepted without acknowledgement. \u201cSomeone should have had the good sense to acknowledge her that evening and that didn\u2019t happen,\u201d Ognosky said. \u201cWhen you forget the great person you have, that\u2019s a problem.\u201d He said he believed Truman was leaving the district earlier than she had planned to. \u201cAnd that\u2019s a concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ognosky said the board needed to look for ways to fix the problem in the district. \u201cInstead of finding fault, you need to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that in three contract negotiations that happened while he was superintendent, \u201cThe only people who talked to each other were teachers and board members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He advocated for an open dialogue between the two parties to get the contract finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teachers are back tomorrow,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019m concerned with what I hear tonight. 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