| RETIRED
EMPLOYEES OF KERN COUNTY
MINUTES OF BOARD
MEETING
June 10, 2003
President, David Merritt, called the meeting to order at 10:10 A.M.
ROLL CALL: Jeanne
Berkshire, Norman Briggs, Allan Choy, John DeMario, Opal Hargis, Tom McCarthy, Ginger
Mello, David Merritt, Joe Porter, Elinor Wells and Doris Williams
OTHERS PRESENT: Wanda
Castro, Jerry Dodd, Belva Jarad and Lois Maujer
MOTION by Allan Choy to approve May minutes; seconded by John
DeMario and CARRIED.
Doris Williams gave the Treasurer’s Report of May 31,
2003; copies are on file. MOTION by Opal
Hargis to accept the Treasurer’s Report; seconded by John DeMario and CARRIED. MOTION by John DeMario to pay enumerated bills;
seconded by Norman Briggs and CARRIED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
CRCEA – Everett Julkowski was not in attendance at the
meeting.
CCAPE – Blue O’Connor was not in attendance at the
meeting.
Host/Hostess
Program – For the month of May, 30 volunteers worked 92 hours and
assisted 1,007 visitors to the County Administration Building.
Monthly Program
– This month we will have Audrey Cochran speaking on “Surviving
the Emergency Room”. For the month of
July we will have the voting machines to use during
our barbecue. For the month of August Kelly McWatters from Smith Barney will be doing an
educational program for our membership.
Newsletter –
Discussion was held in regard to getting the TREND out early. The fact that
the barbecue is early in July and we need to get the registration form out to the
membership. At the time that Joe took this
position, his wife was able to help him with the TREND.
His wife is now working full time and is a full time student. Joe lines it all up and his wife does the typing. The request is for the deadline to be moved up to
the 15th and Joe try his best to get it out early. Jerry Dodd requested a Thank You to Whitewater Car
Wash for the Mothers and Fathers Day Gifts.
COMMUNICATIONS:
President, David Merritt, received a letter requesting him to join in the
festivities of “Volunteer Host/Hostess Day”.
He also received a copy of a letter from General Services to the Board of
Supervisors requesting to proclaim May 20, 2003 as Volunteer Host/Hostess Day. President, David Merritt, also received 11 County
Newsletters. He also received the slide
presentation of the latest Actuarial Study in paper form from David Deutsch.
OLD BUSINESS:
Status of Public Relations Committee – No Report
Web Page – Norman Briggs got rid of the
black box that appeared in the last issue of the
TREND. John DeMario requested checking which
minutes are missing
on the Web Page and getting them up to date. The
Secretary stated that
she would check it out and e-mail those minutes to Norman to include them on
the Web Page. The hit count has been
continuously going up.
Directors and Officers Liability Insurance –
The insurance from Pacific Group Agencies has
been renewed. This is the free insurance we
are part of through CRCEA. Stephen Pettee called President, David Merritt,
telling him
that they have a dental plan that he will give for free to someone up here to
try that needs some dental work. They market
a plan that they are
trying to promote to groups.
Monthly Luncheons – President, David
Merritt, received a telephone call from David
Deutsch, with regard to our letter to him to do the withholding from the check. It
is now in the hands of County Counsel. Apparently,
some other
questions came up with the Retirement Boards ability to remove monies
from retirees checks to pay things and the language in the individual waiver
to withdraw that money.
NEW BUSINESS:
Jeanne Berkshire
volunteered to call and pick up the paper for tables from Alice Mack. Alice Mack has been under the weather the last few
months and not able to attend our meetings. Jeanne also volunteered to take on the
responsibility to get someone to set up Norris Road
Veterans Hall for the barbecue. The decision
was made to start our monthly luncheons in August. We
will do the deductions once we get the permission
from County Counsel's office. Jeanne Berkshire still needs a list of the new retirees so
that personal follow-up telephone calls can be made to the retirees who do not join our
organization when they retire.
MOTION was made by John DeMario
to send a free luncheon ticket for two to all new retirees within the Kern County Zip Code
area; seconded by Opal Hargis and CARRIED.
Fair Report – Jeanne Berkshire spoke with
Jeanne Burton at the Fair and they will be having a meeting and Jeanne Berkshire will be
contacting her committee, Tom McCarthy and Ellie Wells to accompany her to this meeting. Jeanne also stated that she will have sign up
sheets at the July barbecue for those who wish to sign up to work at the Fair.
Wanda Castro, representative from the Retirement Board, announced
that they have hired an Assistant Executive
Director who will be starting July 14th. Her name is Ann Holdren and she came from a
retirement system in the state of Washington. Wanda
also distributed a letter from the CAO’s office regarding “Advance Retirement
Planning Seminars” that the CAO’s office is working on.
Norman Briggs is putting together a list of members who will go to
the Web Page to read the TREND instead of receiving it in the mail. Doris Williams stated that if Norman will give her
a list of names she will cross those names off of the list to make labels for the TREND.
MOTION by Doris Williams to pay the speaker at today’s meeting
$100; seconded by Opal Hargis and CARRIED.
MOTION to adjourn at 11:25 A.M. by John DeMario; seconded by Norman
Briggs, Tom McCarthy and Doris Williams and CARRIED.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Ginger Mello, Secretary
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