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Dear JohnStark, Norm88, and Barbara Bazarnick,

I have met with many of the school dept. leaders and the heads of the teachers union as well. I find the greatest area of common ground is "Transparency". Everyone agrees that if the people paying the tab, the taxpayers, were better informed, there would be less secrecy, less rumor, and less innuendo. We agree that we have a system that's broken. We don't even have the City Council reading the changes in the school budget until a day AFTER they pass it. In my administration, that won't happen. In my administration, the schoolteachers won't be working without a contract unless we have met over 100 times with no progress at all. I am a person who finds solutions, not a person who ignores solutions. The union leaders seem to me to be the same kind of sincere and persistent people. We may not agree on everything but I sense they won't quit until we have a contract that we can all accept. I promise you; I won't quit until we do either! Feel free to hold me and the school union accountable. I will as well. Count on us.

Happy Thanksgiving

Richard Corrente

Democrat for Mayor - 2016