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A RESOLUTION ATIANTA TEACHERS REPRESENTATION ON '£HE LOCAL EDUCATION COMMISSION OF ATIANTA AND FULTON COUNTY UHEREAS, the legislators were asked to name the presidents of the Atlanta and Fulton County Teacher Associations, as representatives of teachers on the commission, and WdERFAS, this request was made at our dinner conference with the Fulton County delegation and at the formal hearing in the State Capitol, and WHEREAS, the delegation indicated their interest in honoring this request each time it was made, and t]HERFAS, the request was not honored in H. B. 623, and WHEREAS, our presidents are the elected representatives of all professional personnel other than Superintendents, and lri:filREAS, our presidents are lmowledgeable in matters pertaining to the problems involved, and WHEREAS, our presidents act after apprising the organizations of the facts, and WHEREAS, the organization, which is composed of over ninety five percent (95%) of the professional personnel, act as directed, by their constituents, and WHEREAS, the education of our children is vitally involved in the study of problems and decisions reached, and WHEREAS, the future of Metropolitan Atlanta is at stake, and WHEREAS, the livelihood of all employees of the Atlanta and Fulton County Boards of Education is involved in the final solution, and WHEREAS, the past action of the Commission has not appeared to be adequately informed about the total nature of the subject "Better Schools for Atlanta and Fulton County", and UHEREAS, we deny anyone other than our president or his appointed representative the authority to speak, ~,rite or act on our behalf, and THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED thAt we are not represented on the Connnission, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we request fonna.l representation as voting bers of the Conmission, occupying vacancies now on the Comnission. ri1em- Adopted: May 15, 1967 The Atlanta Public School Teachers' Association, 197 Central Avenue, S. W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303 �