From negotiations:

To all members,

Our bargaining team met with the school committee from 6 to 8 pm. this

evening. All school committee members were present except for Robert Barker

who is on vacation. Superintendent John D'Auria was also present. The two

teams met at first without the SC attorney or our MTA rep. in the room. SC

chair John Bonnanzio expressed regret that his statements to the Canton

Citizen caused pain to the teachers and gave the impression that the SC and

the CTA are at odds. The CTA team accepted the sincerity of his statement to

us but asked Mr. Bonnazio to state this publicly in the Citizen. He agreed.

We also agreed with the Superintendent's suggestion of a joint statement to

the Citizen and Journal by the CTA and the SC.

On the matter of the contract, the SC while still offering 0% put forth

some creative ideas for possible settlement. The CTA team will meet later

this week to work other ideas to move the contract talks along. We will meet

with the SC to continue negotiations on Tuesday Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. We have

agreed with the SC that neither party will speak to the press about

negotiations for the time being.

Please see a separate e-mail message from the crisis committee regarding to

Aug. 23 SC meeting.

Patty Willis

Negotiation Chair