DECLARATION OF CANDIDACY

for

LAKOTA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION DELEGATE

to both

The SWOEA/OEA REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLIES

SWOEA Representative Assemblies-- Saturday, November 10, 2012 and Saturday, April 13, 2013

OEA Representative Assemblies--Saturday, December 1, 2012 and Friday/Saturday,May 10 and 11, 2013

Ethnic group: __ Asian-Oriental __Black __Indian __ Hispanic __Bi-Racial __Multi-Racial __Caucasian

Building ______NEA ID ______

(located on your OEA membership card)

NAME ______HOME PHONE ______

MAILING ADDRESS ______

EMAIL ADDRESS (not school)______

CITY ______STATE ______ZIP ______

EDUCATIONAL POSITION______SCHOOL PHONE ______

PLEASE COMPLETE BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: 50 WORDS OR LESS (sample on back)

SIGNATURE OF CANDIDATE ______

Please return form to Damian Dagenbach at Hopewell Elementary by 4 P.M., Tuesday, September 11, 2012. You may return this form either by U.S. Mail (my address Hopewell Elementary 8300 Cox Rd. West Chester, Ohio 45069) so that it arrives by 9/11/12, or you may deliver it to me at Hopewell Elementary (room A9, farthest fourth grade hall) by the deadline. Try to deliver this form yourself. If you give someone else that responsibility and they miss the deadline, you will not be on the ballot. (For your convenience, I will be at the LEA Building Rep meeting in the media center at East Freshman Campus at 4:30. You may hand your completed form to me there until 5 P.M.)

SWOEA Representative Assemblies meet on Saturday, November 10, 2012 and Saturday, April 13, 2013. These meetings are held in the Cincinnati area and a free breakfast is provided before the meeting begins.

OEA Representative Assemblies meet on Saturday, December 1, 2012 and Friday/Saturday, May 10 and 11, 2013. (This is after the OAAs!) These meetings are held in Columbus. Room, meals, and mileage are paid for by LEA following the Bylaws of the Constitution of the LEA. A Professional Day is taken on Friday, May 10, 2013.

8. DELEGATE (taken from LEA Constitution and Bylaws 2011)

8.1 OEA Representative Assembly

a)One delegate and alternate is elected per fifty (50) active members or major fraction thereof.

b)Elected delegates will attend the SWOEA Assembly and delegate briefing prior to the OEA Assembly.

c)Expenses for the SWOEA Assembly are paid by SWOEA.

d)LEA will pay expenses for the OEA Assembly based on double occupancy with reasonable exceptions approved and delegate participation in voting. If a single room is preferred, reimbursement will be made at half the cost of the double occupancy rate.

e)Elections of OEA delegates shall not be held later than October 10th of each year.