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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact Natasha Beery, <a href="mailto:president.bhsptsa@gmail.com">president.bhsptsa@gmail.com</a> </span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Don't forget to vote for your the School Site Council and Berkeley Schools Excellence Project (BSEP) Parent Representatives at Back to School Night! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Come by the voter's table set up on the Berkeley Community Theatre steps to pick up a ballot and vote, any time between 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm on Thursday, September 22.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The candidate statements are posted online at <a href="http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org">http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org</a>, and there will also be copies available tomorrow night in English and Spanish. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All parents and guardians of <u>current</u> Berkeley High School students are eligible to vote. One vote per parent/guardian (no matter how many children you have!)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You'll complete your ballot, and then write your name, your child's name, and their grade and SLC affiliation on the voter envelope. Your vote is anonymous…the envelopes are checked against a student list and then separated from the ballot before tallying. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you are unable to attend Back to School Night, you may give your "proxy" to your spouse, partner, or friend. The person with your proxy must also correctly complete the voter envelope on your behalf. If you are bringing in a proxy vote, please do not deliver more than your own vote plus one proxy, and only if you have been explicitly authorized to do so. </span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please take a moment to read the candidate statements posted online at <a href="http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org">http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You do not need to be a member of the PTSA to be eligible to vote. The PTSA will be overseeing the vote tallying, together with a volunteer from the League of Women Voters. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please do pick up a membership form for the PTSA at the ballot table so that you can support the activities of the PTSA, including newsletters, community forums, and parent education. And you can still volunteer to help the PTSA with the afore-mentioned activities by going to: <b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><a href="http://natashabee.wufoo.com/forms/ptsa-volunteers/"><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>http://natashabee.wufoo.com/forms/ptsa-volunteers/</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Natasha Beery<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PTSA President<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>______________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Pat Anderson, Diane Douglas, Marguerite Fa-Kaji and Lisa Sibony are the parent-volunteer facilitators of the etree; please direct any questions to them at <a href="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net" title="mailto:bhs-owner@lmi.net"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>bhs-owner@lmi.net</span></font></a>. </span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>BHS etree archives: <a href="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/" title="http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>http://lists.lmi.net/pipermail/bhs/</span></font></a>; BHS PTSA website: <a href="http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org/" title="http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org/"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>http://www.bhs.berkeleypta.org/</span></font></a>. 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