State Rep. Terry Morrow and State Sen. Kathy Sheran, and the Department of Human Services has scheduled a public hearing in St. Peter to provide residents with information regarding the ongoing changes at the Regional Treatment Center, as well as long-term plans for the facility. DHS officials ( M.Tessner,W. Kooistra, Dennis Benson) will also be available to answer questions from the public. The meeting is set for Wednesday, August 27th at 7 p.m. in the Senior Center room at the St. Peter Community Center.
"Considering the potential impact of these cuts on the employees and community, we feel that the right thing to do is to have the Department of Human Services provide answers," said Morrow. "While I believe it would have been more appropriate to have this meeting before changes were made, I do appreciate the opportunity that DHS is providing now to the community to hear first-hand about its plans for the future." " Our goal in this process continues to be to improve opportunities for those employees who provide treatment and safety services at the Treatment Center, as well as to provide for the needs of the community" Sheran said. " I would like to encourage people to submit questions for the Department, and come to the meeting on the 27th to get the answers they are looking for." Senator Sheran and Representative Morrow are asking that residents submit their questions for DHS ahead of the meeting so that DHS officials can know what information to bring to the meeting.
Questions regarding the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center, the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, and the other programming operated at the St. Peter RTC may be submitted as follows: Senator Kathy Sheran, 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Capitol Building, Room G-24, St. Paul, MN 55155-1606, sen.kathy.sheran@senate.mn Representative Terry Morrow, 415 State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155, rep.terry.morrow@house.mn For more information, you can also call Rep. Morrow at 651-296-8634 or Sen. Sheran at 651-296-6153.
I encourage all Local 404 members and their families to attend this meeting. This is our opportunity to hear first hand the future plans for MSH and MSOP here in St Peter. Kooistra and Benson will be speaking and Eliot Seide - Minnesota AFSCME Council 5 Executive Director will be attending.
Chuck Carlson
President AFSCME Local 404
STRTC FD MSH 200
This is our current MOU that we are working under, notice we have established shifts Click here
Council 5 has created a movie about the lay offs. If you would like to see it Click Here
The ruling is in for Saint Peter and Moose Lake SC, and SCL's to continue to stay unit 4. With this win we keep a lot of valuable rights as a union. If you would like to read the final ruling Click Here
If you would like to read what went wrong on 8/04/08 Click Here
To read about the lay off in plain english Click here
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Turn Around America Rally
Place: Minnesota Square Park Pavilion, St. Peter MN
(Located off of Minnesota Ave, in between Elm St. & College Ave.)
Date: Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Time: 4:30 pm
***Special Guest Speakers***
All over Minnesota, working families are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet. Skyrocketing healthcare costs, stagnating wages, increasing unemployment and attacks on our retirement security are just a few of the issues we are facing. Corporate America and its high priced CEO’s are doing better than ever, but at the expense of working families. And these problems are happening right here in our own communities.
But this fall, we can do something about it. All union members and community supporters are asked to join the Southeast MN Area Labor Council for a rally and exciting speeches about what our community can do to: TURN AROUND AMERICA.
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