Asociación de Educación de Polk
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View information on our organizational structure and governance, including school/district department representatives.
Recursos de evaluación del condado de Polk
Polk Education Association utilizes a "bottom-up" organizational structure where governing decisions are voted on by ALL members. ALL members vote on Executive Officers (who serve a 3-year term). Members elect their site representatives who serve as our Board of Directors (Governance Board--1 year term). The Board of Directors votes in our Executive Board (district area reps and committee chairs--3 year term, when applicable). Committees bring suggestions for budgets, bylaws, legislative priorities, etc. to the Governance board for a vote. Any member can serve on any committee with open seats. Below is our current organizational chart.
PEA Representative Information
Members at each worksite or within each district-wide department elect worksite/department representatives at the start of each school year through electronic nominations and elections run through the PEA office. Any member in good standing may run for PEA Representative of their worksite/department. PEA Representatives are the first point of contact for member issues (i.e. contract violations and questions, concerns or issues that arise at a worksite/department, the timely dispersal of union business, etc.).
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Each worksite/department is entitled to 1 rep for every 20 members. If more than one member runs for an open seat, an electronic, secret ballot election is conducted. Once elected, these representatives are sworn in as Directors for the PEA Board of Directors, our governing body. Open seats are filled by electronic election 3 times per school year, at the beginning of the school year, the beginning of the second quarter, and the beginning of the third quarter. The representative (director) term expires at the end of the school year. Committee motions (budgets, bylaws, legislative priorities, bargaining, etc.) are brought before the board for a vote (decisions that impact all members are advertised via email for a month before the board votes, allowing time for the general membership to voice their thoughts and concerns to their reps before the vote).