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November 1, 2005 The meeting was
called to order at 10:05 a.m. by President, Norman
Briggs.
ROLL CALL: Jeanne
Berkshire, Norman Briggs, Nettie Collins, John DeMario,
Lois Maujer, Ginger Mello, David Merritt, Walter Stewart
and Elinor Wells
OTHERS PRESENT: Mary
Hancock and Belva Jared
MOTION by David Merritt to
amend the motion made at the October meeting by himself
to reflect the purchase from 2 to 3 copies of Microsoft
Publisher, which will stay as property of REOKC,
seconded by Lois Maujer and CARRIED. MOTION
by Elinor Wells to approve the minutes as amended,
seconded by Lois Maujer and CARRIED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
CRCEA – Dave reported that
the CRCEA Conference was great. Dave circulated a 1 ½
page overview report that he made from the Secretary of
CRCEA’s 18 page report.
Dave’s review covered a little bit
of his impression of each area that was spoken on at the
conference. The fact that we need an alternate to Dave
at CRCEA was discussed. MOTION by Elinor Wells
to appoint Opal Hargis as the alternate to CRCEA,
seconded by Nettie Collins and CARRIED.
CCAPE – Blue O’Connor was
not in attendance at the meeting. Mary Lou Bennett
asked if President, Norman Briggs would like her to
contact Blue and see what his status is regarding
whether he is able to attend the CCAPE meetings.
President, Norman Briggs, thank Mary Lou and asked her
to please contact Blue.
HOST/HOSTESS PROGRAM – Mary
Lou Bennett reported that for the month of October there
were 36 volunteers who worked 108 hours and assisted
1,272 visitors to the County Administration Building.
Since 1992 through October 2005 the Host/Hostess Program
has assisted 227,514 visitors to the County
Administration Building.
MONTHLY PROGRAM – 1st
Vice President, Jeanne Berkshire announced that Paulanna
Hodges from Health Benefits would be our speaker today.
President, Norman Briggs is hoping that she will give
answers to questions regarding Medicare Part D.
NEWSLETTER – October 15th
was the deadline for the articles for the latest TREND.
Vicki had the TREND at the printers on October 17th,
John DeMario had the labels to the printer on October 19th
and it went out on October 21st. It went
very smoothly and this was the fastest it has gone out.
We added a historic article which was very good and
Walter was thanked for his article and asked if he would
do another one. The next deadline is December 15th.
KCERA – Wanda Castro was
not in attendance.
TREASURER – John DeMario
did not give a report but will give a report for
November and December at the January meeting.
COMMUNICATIONS – The
President received several county newsletters, an
invitation from Roy Ashburn for a fund raiser, a letter
from KCERA in answer to the letter written by CCEOK
regarding increasing the death benefit, Geico
advertisement and a catalog from Oriental Trading. John
DeMario announced that there is a Retirement Board
Actuary Committee meeting at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon to
discuss the death benefit and he would like as many
people as possible to be at the meeting. Jeanne
Berkshire stated that she has received the rental
agreement from the Fair. MOTION from John
DeMario to have Jeanne sign the agreement, seconded by
Elinor Wells and CARRIED.
OLD BUSINESS:
STATUS OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
COMMITTEE – The next meeting is scheduled for
November 16th.
WEB PAGE – President,
Norman Briggs, thanked Mary Lou Bennett and Ginger Mello
for the corrections that needed to be made.
PAC UPDATE – At the CRCEA
Conference, Jim Sweeney was to give a talk on PAC’s.
Jim was not able to attend the conference, but he sent
two young attorneys’ who did a good job. President,
Norman Briggs, has the presentation that was given and
feels that at this time we need to take some time to
discuss the PAC. It is up to us to decide how we are
going to do it. One of the things that we need to
discuss is finding a treasurer and what legal problems
could arise if the paperwork is not handled properly.
The next step is ours before the attorneys can do any
more for us.
MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN POSITION
- President, Norman Briggs, asked Mary Hancock if
she would like to be the membership chairman. Mary
stated that she doesn’t know that she would want to be
the chairman but would be willing to help. President,
Norman Briggs, stated that he would talk to her some
more about it.
TREND ARTICLE BY ROSEMARIE
THOMPSON – Rosemarie contacted President, Norman
Briggs in September about writing an article for the
TREND regarding the problems that she has had with
Schaller Anderson. President, Norman Briggs requested
David Merritt to take this article and make it
impersonal but give credit to Rosemarie (a by line) for
the article. All Schaller Anderson claims have been
turned over to GBA for paying.
NEW BUSINESS:
BALLOTS ARE READY – We are
voting today and the ballots are ready. Nominating
Committee Chairman circulated a sample ballot for the
Board to see what it looks like.
ANONYMOUS DONATION TO REOKC –
President, Norman Briggs, has had a golfing friend
approach him regarding a donation for the organization.
He suggested purchasing a computer for the organization
to raffle off. The amount of the donation would be
between $500 and $1,000. David Merritt suggested that
perhaps this could be seed money for the bank account
for the PAC. John DeMario suggested that this is a way
to get it started. John feels that we can not use any
of the dues to start the PAC.
CATHY OLAGUE RESIGNATION –
President, Norman Briggs read a letter e-mailed to him
by Cathy Olague on October 13th regarding her
resignation from Kern Federal Credit Union effective
October 20th. We are all very sorry to see
her go and will miss her very much. Michelle Watkins
will be replacing Cathy Olague.
Dave Merritt stated that he did
not understand the response made by President, Norman
Briggs, to his question regarding Mr. Sweeney’s letter
on AB111. Tom Brannon will publish that letter in the
PUBLIC RETIREMENT JOURNAL and give Mr. Sweeney a little
blurb at the bottom.
ANNOUNCEMENTS – Tom Brannon
wrote an article on Proposition 78 and 79 and would like
it to be put on the Web Site. The decision was made to
not publish this article on the Web. We have never put
any information on the Web regarding the Propositions.
MOTION by Elinor Wells to
adjourn the meeting at 11:38 a.m., seconded by Jeanne
Berkshire and CARRIED.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, Ginger
Mello, Secretary
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