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RETIRED
EMPLOYEES OF KERN COUNTY
MINUTES OF BOARD MEETING
April
8, 2003
President, David
Merritt, called the meeting to order at
10:10 A.M.
ROLL CALL:
Jeanne Berkshire, Norman Briggs,
Allan Choy, Tom McCarthy, Ginger Mello,
David Merritt, Joe Porter, Elinor Wells and
Doris Williams
OTHERS PRESENT:
Dolores Christian, Jerry Dodd, Belva
Jarad and Everett Julkowski
MOTION by Elinor Wells
to approve March minutes, seconded by Norman
Briggs and CARRIED.
Doris Williams gave the
Treasurer’s Report of March 31, 2003;
copies are on file.
Doris also made a Special Account
Report for the months of January, February
and March 2003.
MOTION by Doris Williams to accept
the Treasurer’s Reports and pay the
enumerated bills; seconded by Tom McCarthy
and CARRIED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
CRCEA
– Everett Julkowski distributed the report
of the CRCEA Spring
Conference held in San Diego in
March.
The only thing not included is an
attendance list.
Everett was not able to go to the
conference so in turn he wants all questions
to be addressed to President, David Merritt,
who did attend the conference.
CCAPE
– No Report
Host/Hostess
Program – For the month of March, 33
volunteers worked 101 hours and assisted
1,291 visitors to the County Administration
Building.
Allan Choy requested that President,
David Merritt, remind the volunteers of the
luncheon on May 20th at 11:30
a.m. given by the Board of Supervisors.
Monthly
Program – The speaker for today will be
Lance Howard, Certified Senior Advisor.
Lance will be speaking on financial
advise in general terms. He knows that
there is to be absolutely no “sales
pitch”.
Norm has a few other names and ideas
for speakers that he is working on.
Newsletter
– Joe Porter says everything is going
alright.
He stated that he needs all articles
for the TREND by the 20th of the
even numbered month prior to the issue
coming out in the odd numbered month.
At this time the advertisement from
KFCU doesn’t appear on the Web Page.
Norm is going to get an electronic
copy of the ad to put it on the Web.
COMMUNICATIONS:
President, David Merritt, received 8
County Newsletters, 2 newsletters from the
Bakersfield Homeless Center, 1 Letters of
the Law and an invitation to an event by
Hoffman Hospice.
The President also received a Thank
You letter from Senator Roy Ashburn in
response to the letter the President had
sent to him upon his appointment as the
vice-chairman of the Public Employee and
Retirement Committee.
President, David Merritt, also
received a letter, courtesy of Everett
Julkowski, on the Attorney Generals opinion
02-608 which was the opinion asked for by
Senator Jack Scott in June 2002.
Senator Scott’s question to the
Attorney General concerned the appointment
of alternate retiree member to the Board of
Retirement.
Senator Scott’s position was that
it required a vote of the population under
Proposition 162.
President, David Merritt, wrote a
long letter to the Attorney General and a
lot of other people wrote also.
The Attorney General has now rendered
a very short opinion basically saying there
does not need to be a vote.
The Attorney General stated that it
does not change the constitution of the
Retirement Board therefore it does not
require a vote.
The alternate retiree only votes when
the Retiree Member is not present.
OLD BUSINESS:
Status of Procedures
for Special Use Fund – John DeMario is
still working on the procedures, but when we
moved some of the postage and printing for
the TREND over to the Special Fund, it shows
that we are using the money for education of our members.
Status of Public
Relations Committee – Norman Briggs
reported that he has not made contact with
John DeMario or Opal Hargis. He plans to
invite the two new supervisors to lunch,
hopefully before our next meeting.
Web Page – We now
have a counter on it.
Norm has not checked it lately.
Cathy Olague with KFCU agreed with
Norm to put the Credit Union link on the Web
with the others listed.
Brochure – The new
brochure is at the printers.
Hopefully it will be ready soon.
Directors
and Officers Liability Insurance –
President, David Merritt, reported having
spoken to Stephen Pettee, who arranged the
policy for CRCEA. He asked about
getting an additional $1 million and Mr.
Pettee stated yes
it is possible but the cost would go
up. It
will be up to CRCEA to ask for that as an
amendment to their policy and Mr. Pettee
will discuss that at their next meeting with
them.
Monthly
Luncheons – John DeMario was not at the
meeting to update the Board on where he
stands on the work he is doing toward our
monthly luncheons.
NEW BUSINESS:
Retirees being dropped
from REOKC – It has come to the attention
of Treasurer, Doris Williams, that there are
some of our members who receive such a small
retirement check that it is not
possible for them to pay the $1.00 dues each
month. After
considerable discussion, it was decided to
write an amendment to our by-
laws.
The discussion was not if we should,
it was exactly what wording to use.
The amendment to ARTICLE II, Section 3,
Honorary Members is as follows: The
Officers and Board of Directors may
recommend honorary membership for persons
who have contributed in time and effort toward the betterment of this organization, and submit their names to
the members at large for approval or
whose benefits have dropped below where
deductions from their monthly retirement
check is no longer possible to maintain
Retired Employees of Kern County membership
as validated by Kern County Employees
Retirement Association.
MOTION to approve the
amendment was made by Tom McCarthy, seconded
by Norm Briggs, and CARRIED.
The meeting was
adjourned at 11:35 a.m.
RESPECTFULLY
SUBMITTED,
Ginger
Mello, Secretary
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