RETIRED EMPLOYEES OF KERN
COUNTY
MINUTES OF THE BOARD
MEETING
May 10, 2005
1st Vice President, Jeanne Berkshire, called the meeting
to order at 10:00 a.m. President, Norman
Briggs was on his way to the SACRS meeting.
ROLL CALL: Jeanne Berkshire, John DeMario, Opal Hargis, Lois
Maujer, Ginger Mello, David Merritt, Earlene Smith, Walter Stewart and Elinor Wells
OTHERS PRESENT: Mary Lou Bennett, Belva Jared and Everett
Julkowski
MOTION by Elinor
Wells to approve the April Minutes as read, seconded by Opal Hargis and CARRIED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
CRCEA – Everett
Julkowski reported on the letter he had received from Bill Kirkwood, President of CRCEA. CRCEA is requesting that each association have a
membership chairman to handle recruitments. It
was discussed that Kern County has an excellent recruitment program. Everett stated that he does not know what the
program is that Ann Gregory has put together for associations. It was discussed that a membership chairman could
take over from the Treasurer the job of sending the letters out to new retirees. The final decision was to put this item on the
agenda for June for more discussion.
CCAPE – Blue O’Connor
was not in attendance at the meeting.
HOST/HOSTESS PROGRAM –
Mary Lou Bennett reported that for the month of April there were 32 volunteers who worked
111 hours and assisted 1,537 visitors to the County Administration Building.
MONTHLY PROGRAM –
1st Vice President, Jeanne Berkshire, announced that today’s speaker would
be Vaughn Barnett who is a Certified Master Hypnotist.
NEWSLETTER – As
President, Norman Briggs, was not in attendance there was no report. Secretary, Ginger Mello, questioned if there were
any errors in this edition. Opal Hargis
stated there was an error in grammar.
KCERA – Wanda
Castro was not in attendance as she was driving to the SACRS conference. She left word that there were 299 new retirees in
the first quarter and that does not include the beneficiaries. Also, that the Board of Supervisors had appointed
Howard Eddy as the Safety alternate on the Board of Retirement.
Treasurer, John DeMario, gave the Treasurer’s Report. MOTION
by David Merritt to approve the Claims Payable for April, seconded by Opal Hargis and CARRIED. MOTION by David Merritt to approve the
Treasurer’s Report for the month of April, seconded by Opal Hargis and CARRIED. The
item on the agenda regarding appointment of Mary Lou Bennett to the position of Treasurer
was disregarded due to the fact that Mary Lou has stated that she can not possibly take
the position due to it taking up too much of her time. Mary Lou returned all the paperwork
to John DeMario prior to the meeting. John
DeMario has requested recruiting a person for the position of Treasurer. John also stated that out of 149 retirees in April
that 125 had joined REOKC and of the 12 beneficiaries, 7 had joined REOKC. It was decided that since the only signatures on
the checking account are John and Mary Lou, to leave Mary Lou on in case John isn’t
available to sign the checks.
COMMUNICATIONS
– President, Norman Briggs, received in the mail 7 County Newsletters, 1 Braille
Institute Newsletter, 1 Bank Statement (given to John DeMario), 1 receipt from Mossman’s
(given to John DeMario), 1 credit card application (again given to John DeMario), 1
request from Bakersfield Rescue Mission for a donation, 1 change of address card and a
request from a person to remove their name from the TREND mailing list because they get it
on the internet.
OLD BUSINESS:
STATUS OF PUBLIC
RELATIONS COMMITTEE – It was announced that there is a meeting scheduled for
CCEOK to meet on May 18th at Marie Callendar’s. There was also a meeting held on May 13th
in regard to the letter from CCEOK to the CAO’s office regarding health insurance
benefits. CCEOK was meeting with the
consultant, Eric Barthel. David Merritt also
stated that the Board of Supervisors has put a stop on the retirement seminars effective
in November. The seminar scheduled for May
will go ahead as planned.
WEB PAGE – No
Report
PAC UPDATE - No
Report
RENTAL OF STORAGE
FACILITY – Everett Julkowski presented his findings of cost, size and location of
several storage facilities. John DeMario
stated that he felt that we should go with a smaller area and stack up higher. MOTION
by Elinor Wells for Everett to pick up an application at Fortress Self-Storage, White Lane
and Highway 99, for a storage area 5’ x 5’ at $31 per month, seconded by Lois
Maujer and CARRIED.
This facility has a pay 1 month, get 1 month free policy and has an
alarm with 24 hour security.
NEW BUSINESS: Secretary, Ginger Mello, reported that in place of
the November 8th meeting date, we will meet on November 1st. The building is not available on the 8th
because of Election Day and 3 precincts will be held in the building. It was stated that we need to get the TREND out
early with big BOLD headline stating the change
of date but same place. Secretary, Ginger
Mello, stated that she will contact Helen Dodd and ask if she is planning to do the July
Picnic as she has done for the last several years.
MOTION by Lois
Maujer to adjourn our meeting at 11:17 a.m., seconded by Elinor Wells and CARRIED.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Ginger Mello, Secretary
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