August
13, 2002
President, David
Merritt, called the meeting to order at
10:11 A.M.
ROLL CALL:
Allan Choy, Opal Hargis, Ginger
Mellow, David Merritt, Elinor Wells and
Doris Williams.
OTHERS PRESENT: Jeanne Berkshire, Jerry Dodd, Belva Jarad and Blue
O’Connor.
MOTION by Allan Choy
to approve June minutes pending
confirmation of 3 areas of NEW BUSINESS:
Item D.
The Secretary reviewed the tape of
the June 11, 2002 meeting and the
following is the corrected items, and
CARRIED.
TO
CORRECT NEW BUSINESS:
Item D should read:
d.
Government Code Section 31617 –
The Board of retirement took action at the
last meeting to adopt Government Code
Section 31617 based on outside counsel’s
opinion.
The also took action to move $57
million out of the COLA and give it back
to the County Advance Reserve.
John DeMario has stated that the
Retirement Board is implementing
Government Code Section 31617. At this time John DeMario feels that REOKC should use Special
Funds to seek out an attorney to review
the opinion. If a review attorney says it is OK, then that is all we can
do, but at least we are not just letting
them say what is to be done.
If it is not OK, then we need
guidance on what to do.
MOTION by Tom McCarthy that
President, David Merritt contact an
attorney to see if it is prudent to check
into this, seconded by Norm Briggs, and
CARRIED.
Doris Williams gave
the Treasurer’s Report of June 30, 2002
and July 31, 2002; copies are on file.
MOTION by Opal Hargis, seconded by
Allan Choy to accept the report.
MOTION CARRIED. Doris Williams moved that the enumerated bills be paid;
MOTION by Elinor Wells, seconded by Opal
Hargis; MOTION CARRIED.
COMMITTEE
REPORTS:
1.
CREA – President,
David Merritt, received a Survey from
CRCEA regarding Benefits, which we moved
to the end of the meeting.
Everett Julkowski e-mailed his
report to the President.
2.
CCAPE – No Report.
3.
HOST/HOSTESS PROGRAM
– For the month of June 30 volunteers
worked 92 hours and assisted 1,205
visitors.
For the month of July, 31
volunteers worked 95 hours and assisted
1,193 visitors at the County
Administration Building.
4.
MONTHLY PROGRAM –
Susan Leddy, Senior Account Executive for
Benefits Corp., A Great—West Company,
will speak today on the County Comp Plan
and the Kern County Youth Mariachi
Foundation will be here for our
entertainment.
Nettie Collins has been asking for
information on people to speak or
entertain.
President, David Merritt has always
said he would like to have some of our
meetings be for education.
President, David Merritt announced
that he had listened to a gentleman who is
a Certified Estate Planner and a Wealth
Transfer Practitioner.
President, David Merritt liked the
way he spoke.
He had pretty decent business
ethics and would be willing to do a
30-minute program.
Nettie stated that she could
possibly have him speak at our Oct.
meeting.
5.
NEWSLETTER - Numerous
comments about how people are impressed
with the TREND.
Doris Williams stated that as she
has read through other county newsletters,
she has seen a disclaimer and asked if we
should print a disclaimer in the TREND?
President, David Merritt stated
that we probably should.
COMMUNICATIONS: The President received 1 pamphlet from the Center for the
Blind and Visually Impaired, 2 pamphlets
from Bakersfield Homeless Center, and 1
pamphlet from Letter of the Law – Kern
County Superior Court, 1 pamphlet from the
Braille Institute and 11 County
Newsletters. President, David Merritt received a letter from Mr. Scott
Jones in answer to a letter from David
Merritt and Mr. George Hensley, President
of Retired firefighters regarding
increasing the retiree’s medical
stipend.
Mr. Jones’ letter states that
when his office has prepared a preliminary
recommendation on our request, his office
will schedule a meeting to discuss the
County’s position.
President, David Merritt did attend
a meeting with Bill Douglas regarding
health benefits. The whole medical figures are ugly. Both Kaiser and Blue Cross numbers are not in yet.
There probably will be a follow up
meeting.
OLD BUSINESS:
a.
Status of Procedures for Special
Use Fund - No Report.
b.
Status of Public Relations
Committee - No Report.
c.
Web Page – The Web Site is
still under construction.
To find the web page go to www.REOKC.org.
It is very clean. The work being done on it is the links. Some of the links are to KCERA, CRCEA, Kern County Website,
legal information which is a California
State site on legislative matters, Kern
Federal Credit Union and it will have
telephone numbers for Health Benefits,
CCAPE, Kern Federal Retirement Office and
the 800 number for the Retirement Office
within California but outside the 661 area
code.
d.
Status of Political Interview
Committee – The committee has a list
of candidates to interview.
The ones to be interviewed will be
the 2nd District Supervisor,
some assembly races, some senate races and
possibly interview candidates for the 4th
District.
The Board made the decision to meet
on August 29, 2002 from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00
P.M. at Southwest Veterans Hall in the
smaller of the two rooms where our general
meetings are held.
There will be 12 or 13 candidates
to interview.
We will give 20 minutes per
candidate with 10-minute breaks in
between.
We hope to interview 9 in the
morning, take 1 ˝ hour lunch break and
interview the rest in the afternoon.
e.
Luncheons – Since Joe Porter
is not in attendance, we will table this
issue to the next meeting.
NEW BUSINESS:
a.
Fair Volunteers – Jeanne
Berkshire met with Jeanne Burton, Exhibit
Supervisor on July 31, 2002.
In attendance at the meeting was
Nannette’ Lynch, Supervisor of the Fine
Arts Building and Susan Stone, Livestock
Supervisor. The request of Nannette’ was to work starting September 20th
through September 24th from
9:00 A.M. until 6:00 P.M.
Nannette’ also requested that we
work at the Floriculture area, both the
outside door and the inside door.
There was an additional request to
work after the fair from October 7th
– 9th from 8:00 A.M. until
5:00 P.M. at the Floriculture area.
On September 30, October 1st
and 2nd, the school children go
through the fair.
This is about 7,000 children and
Susan would like us to volunteer to work 4
hours at 10 different sites among the
animals.
MOTION was made by Opal Hargis for
Jeanne Berkshire to inform Jeanne Burton
that REOKC would be willing to work
September 20th – 24th
from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and that we
would also work the Floriculture area,
seconded by Doris Williams, and MOTION
CARRIED. As far as Jeanne has been told, we will still be able to use
Harvest Hall for our Christmas Luncheon.
Jeanne has her sign up sheet ready
to circulate.
The meeting was
adjourned at 11:55 A.M.
RESPECTFULLY
SUBMITTED,
Ginger Mello,
Secretary
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