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This doesn't look right! No CO's at final vote!

The Minnesota Legislature, by Statute authorized a Working Group to study whether 911 Telecommunicators should have "changes to the pension plan coverage for 911 telecommunicators are appropriate..."  

Subd. 2. 

Duties; report. 

The working group must submit a report to the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement by March 1, 2022. The report must recommend whether changes to the pension plan coverage for 911 telecommunicators are appropriate. If the working group finds that such changes are appropriate, the working group must recommend changes to the pension plan coverage for 911 telecommunicators. The recommended changes may include but are not limited to moving 911 telecommunicators to the correctional plans.


The same statute spelled out who must be in the working group including: 

(10) a member of the public employees local government correctional service retirement plan, designated by the board of trustees of the Public Employees Retirement Association; and

(11) a member of the state correctional employees retirement plan, designated by the board of directors of the Minnesota State Retirement System.


When the Working Group meeting took place on January 28th at 9 AM neither the CO from PERA or MSRS was there. It turns out the MSRS CO was not included in the 'Doodle' sent to out to learn availability and the PERA CO was sent one but they scheduled it during a time she had marked as unavailable!

This is curious because the report isn't due until March 1st! Surely a time could have been picked to accommodate the only two CO's  on the Working Group. 

That last meeting was extremely important as changes could be introduced to the 2nd draft and voted on, and the final draft was voted on for approval minus 2 important members required by statute.





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