Get Your 2015 Convention Resolutions In!

The deadline for submitting any resolutions or legislative agenda items for consideration at the 2015 Convention is 5PM on July 3.Please make sure you submissions are complete or they will not be accepted. This means you MUST include a financial impact assessment for each resolution! Many resolutions won't have a financial impact (like taking a position on an important issue) but you still have to report a financial impact of "none".

A typical resolution might read something like:

Free Cookie Fridays

WHEREAS, human kind has existed for the majority of its existence in a cookie-deprived state.

WHEREAS, this cookie-deprived state can be Archeologically quantified to represent over 90% of human history.

WHEREAS, most people do not eat cookies on a daily basis but wish they could.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, PEF will demonstrate its compassion and magnanimous charity by giving its members free cookies every Friday.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, milk will be made available to those who request it.

Fiscal Impact: $1,500,000.00/year

Submitted by: C. Monster

You may not want to copy this example verbatim but it does demonstrate the basic layout. Establish the condition or problem within the "WHEREAS" statements - trying to keep individual supporting evidence/statements separate. Put what you want PEF to do in the "THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED" section and, if there is an additional action you want, put it in the "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED" portion. It is often important to be succinct to maximize comprehension. Long resolutions can be glazed over and consequently passed over in committee so try to make things as plain-English and as short as possible.

The $1.5 million estimate isn't too far from reality BTW.

Mail your typewritten resolutions to:

NYS Public Employees Federation

c/o Secretary-Treasurer's Office

P.O. Box 12414

Albany, NY 12212-2414

You may email your resolutions in Microsoft Word document format to: wseeger@pef.org.

Follow up to make sure your submissions have been received by calling 1(800) 342-4306 ext. 226.

Legislative agenda items need to be sent to:

PEF Legislative Department

c/o Vice President Wayne Bayer

90 State Street, Suite 1029

Albany, NY 12207-1811

You can email your legislative agenda items in Microsoft Word document format to: dthomson@pef.org

Follow up to make sure your items were received by calling 1(800) 724-4997 ext. 201.

More information is available in the attachment.

3/26/15: edited title to 2015

6/16/15: corrected due date; added updated pdfs