The PEFencon Conservation Day 2005 Committee is preparing a survey intended to solicit wishes of the PEFencon membership in regards to what they want for the Conservation Day 2005 Picnic. The survey is being designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative information, so the Committee has as clear an understanding as possible of what our members want. This will allow the PEFencon Committee to confidently represent the PEFencon membership to the Department's Conservation Day Committee. The survey will be distributed with the July 2004 PEFencon Monthly Newsletter.

The work is almost completed on the north end of the Water Street walkway. Let PEFencon know what you think of the improvements, and what else needs to be done.

The minutes from the March 2004 Statewide Labor Management meeting, June agenda and a June 2004 Position Paper concerning Pollution and Energy Reduction are posted. The June Labor Management meeting took place at the DEC Region 8 Headquarters in Avon. Please review these minutes and let any steward know your comments.

PEF Contract Update (from the PEF website) 6/7/2004 TABLE TALK Negotiations are on track and continue to move forward. Agreements on contract articles and specific issues are being reached and signed off on. These individual sign-offs are tentative and only become solidified when an overall agreement is inked. When PEF Negotiators asked for membership help to move negotiations along the members responded. They were there at the contract justice rallies, faxing letters to the governor, calling their legislators, signing petitions, keeping their co-workers informed, signing folks up for AIM, attending membership meetings, etc. We have now reached a point that occurs in almost every bargaining scenario - the point where further outside pressure is unnecessary and possibly damaging to the outcome. Thank you for your past support and please stand ready to assist us if negotiations should falter. Several days of meetings are scheduled for this week.

There is an election for delegates to attend the PEF Convention in Lake Placid in October. Twenty-five members submitted petitions to fill 15 delegate positions. Please vote today! Ballots are due to the PEF PO Box by June 18^th.

Please limit yourself to an appropriate amount of food, we try to order enough for all.

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See you at the July 29th Membership Meeting!