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Dear Mike Pierce,

I agree with everything you said, and that is rare for me. However, may I please add to your list. The "most broken" item in my opinion, is the fact that you and the rest of the teachers still, at this very late date do not have a contract. Avedisian refuses to get involved saying that he is required by law to stay out of the negotiations. On that he is correct but he has a greater responsibility to the taxpayers to make sure that there ARE negotiations and he has done NOTHING to get the 2 sides together. NOTHING!

As Mayor I will be bound by the same law that stops me from being part of the negotiations but you can bet I will encourage, advise, push, pressure, motivate, stress, inspire, assert, strong-arm (almost), suggest, and any other adjective you want to use to get the School Committee to meet with the teachers. I will telephone, mail, visit, e-mail, fax, stop-in-the-hall and do whatever it takes to achieve a "meeting" between the sides. What the contract terms end up being are up to them. My challenge is to get them to "talk" at the meeting that I will cannot attend. I will be satisfied enough at having something to do with scheduling it.

Mike, I will relentlessly pursue that goal, and I won't quit until I (and the teachers) succeed.

Count on it.

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend.

Richard Corrente

Endorsed Democrat for Mayor