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Special Offer Through VSP MEA’s Vision Provider

For a limited time, you can maximize your benefits with an extra $40 to spend* on either Calvin Klein or Cole Hann frames. Simply select Calvin Klein or Cole Hann frames in your VSP doctor’s office and $40 will automatically be applied to your purchase. FIND A DOCTOR WHO CARRIES COLE HAAN >> FIND A DOCTOR WHO CARRIES CALVIN KLEIN […]

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Diabetes and Dental Health

If you’re diabetic or love someone who is, you know that dental health plays an important in maintaining our overall health. Fortunately, there are some easy and practical dental habits that we can incorporate into our daily lives that will help to reduce complications associated with diabetes and dental health. Please click here for some dental tips specifically for those suffering from […]

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MEA Negotiating Team

MEA is pleased to announce our new Negotiating Team.  The MEA Negotiating Team is made up of three elected representatives from each of MEA’s four bargaining units, as well as MEA’s Executive Committee, MEA Counsel Ann Smith, and MEA General Manager Mike Zucchet.  Congratulations to the new Team and please thank your colleagues for their work on your behalf! Professional […]

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Reminder: MEA’s Supplemental Tuition Reimbursement Program

We want to remind all members about MEA’s Supplemental Tuition Reimbursement Program, aimed at assisting our members with the costs of continuing education tuition and training. The purpose of MEA’s Supplemental Tuition Reimbursement Plan is to augment the City’s current tuition reimbursement program, which limits reimbursement to $2,000 per fiscal year for tuition or job-related training and certification. Under MEA’s […]

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MEA Letter of Support for California Senate Bill 362

MEA has sent a letter to California State Senator Cathleen Galgiani in support of Senate Bill 362.  SB 362 would provide City of San Diego Code Enforcement Officers DMV confidentiality, meaning that individuals could not access a Code Enforcement Officer’s home address through DMV records. Although MEA has previously sought confidentiality for our Code Enforcement Officers, the City has been […]

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Library Department LMC Minutes

MARCH 6, 2017 ATTENDANCE: Colin Brazile, Kathryn Campbell, Sam Cerrato, Bob Cronk, Jennifer Geran, Misty Jones, Dominic Marostica, Joe Miesner, Nancy Roberts CALL TO ORDER: 10:15 A.M. LMC MINUTES: The minutes from the last meeting (January 30, 2017) were approved unanimously. CENTRAL: Discussed the heating situation. New boilers have been ordered with an ETA of 6 to 8 months. Parts […]

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On-Line Voting for MEA’s Negotiating Team for the Supervisory Unit is Now Open

Electronic voting for MEA’s Negotiating Team is NOW OPEN via MEA’s website. Voting will continue through 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 9 in order to ensure that members have ample time to vote. This is your opportunity to directly participate in one of the most important activities of MEA — selecting the team that will help negotiate contracts that affect […]

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MEA Board Votes to Appeal Prop B Ruling to California Supreme Court

On Wednesday, MEA’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to appeal last week’s Proposition B ruling by the Fourth District Court of Appeals to the California Supreme Court for review.  If left unchallenged, last week’s Appeals Court decision would not only prevent San Diego City employees hired on or after July 20, 2012 from being put back into a defined benefit pension system, […]

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Court of Appeals Prop B Ruling Reverses PERB

Today the Fourth District Court of Appeal issued its opinion in the Prop B case declaring that the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) got it wrong and that no meet and confer obligation under state law ever arose in connection with these drastic changes to pensions and compensation for City employees hired on or after July 20, 2012. In a […]

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