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SAN FRANCISCO, CA

President's Report

November 2007

GREETINGS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CHAPTER MEMBERS WITH BIRTHDAYS AND/OR ANNIVERSARIES IN NOVEMBER....Oktoberfest was a big success...  we had lots of hot dogs, sausages, potato salad, sauerkraut, homemade cucumber salad, and all the fixings and to top it all off, ice cream and candy. Many thanks to all the members who brought food to share, Joe and Rosie Smith, Herman Bracey, Dave Garcia, Dianne Joseph, Martha Raup, Jane Ramos, and Bea Bertwell.

Our speaker, Gail Morthole, from the San Francisco League of Women Voters, filled us in on the San Francisco Ballot Measures which will be on the Tuesday, November 6, 2007 ballot. Not everyone had received their ballots as of our meeting day, but Gail gave us all a very informative guide to the PROs & CONS of each measure.  Don't forget to ask for your Permanent Absentee Voter ballot, if you so desire, by October 30. If it's too late, take action now to prepare for the next election. You can VOTE AT HOME!    And we'd like to publicly thank Gail Morthole for her time and expertise in presenting information to our members.  She's a wonderful speaker, and very well informed.

Herman Bracey, Charles Minster, Dorismarie Hagopian and I made presentations at two Pre-retirement  Seminars at the Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate, on October 18 and 19.    We distributed literature on NARFE and applications to the federal employees attending, and hope we convinced them to JOIN NARFE!  Our participation was made possible by Diana Louie of the Federal Executive Board --   and for this we are very grateful.   Federal employees attending were from many departments, among them HUD, the Presidio Trust, U.S. Dept of Justice, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Dept. of Labor, U.S. Mint, and GSA.

It's estimated that about 60 percent of the current federal work force are eligible to retire in 5 years and 85% of the Supervisors of the current work force are eligible to retire in that same period.  At the same time almost every single federal agency in Los Angeles and San Francisco has a 20% vacancy rate.  We need to recruit these retiring feds. As our potential "pool" of federal workers is diminishing even though the workloads and responsibilities have not.

Your Chapter 65 Executive Board all hope that if you haven't attended a meeting lately, that you'll come to our November meeting.... we'll have a speaker from the California Academy of Sciences to fill us in on the new Academy which is being built in Golden Gate ark. Also at the November meeting, we'll nominate and vote for your Chapter officers for 2008. If you want to nominate anyone, please come to the meeting. You can also nominate someone by calling me. We'd love to have some new officers, new ideas are welcome!!      Jane Ramos   chilberg@ix.netcom.com

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