Elk River Education Association

“The Elk River Education Association is a teachers union. Our members include teaching employees of School District 728. All members are represented by our union. All members are able to attend our governing board meetings. The Executive Council our governing board is made up of representatives from each school building in the district.”

“Each school building elects their representatives to the Executive Council each year any member who is interested in representing their building is allowed to have their name on the ballot for their building rep to join our Executive Council. Then the Executive Council makes decisions on what is important in our district and what we need to focus on. Executive Council takes nominations from all union members for officers positions and the entire union membership votes for those officers.”

“Each year each building school elects their own building representatives to the Executive Council. The entire union membership is eligible to run for any officer position. Then every member is able to vote for officers and they get to vote who attends conferences who is elected to some specialized committees or roles and they vote on the contract offers and on MOAs that affect their building or if the MOA affects then entire membership all members have a vote.”

“We perform an annual audit. The audit committee goes through every deposit made expense paid compares it to what was budgeted and makes sure that all expenses follow the Elk River Education Associations financial policies. The audit is shared with the governing board and must be accepted by the board after review and questions. Our audit is also sent on to the Education Minnesota for them to review each year as well. The audit information is then used to complete this tax form. All financial forms are available for the governing board and our entire union membership at their request as well.”

“Enforcement of Conflicts Policy Officers directors and key employees review this policy at start of each year and each is asked if they have any conflicts or potential conflicts to disclose. If so they are asked to identify them in detail.”

“Information from unions with similar numbers of members is collected and compared with our rates. The compensation amounts are discussed by the officers and then included in our annual budget. The budget is presented to discussed with and then must be approved by our Executive Council.”

“The Elk River Education Association governing documents conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to to our members upon request.”