Action required! Email PERA Board before December 12th

This Thursday December 12th the PERA Board is meeting and voting on Legislative initiatives they will be supporting or not.

Last session we had a bill to add a Correctional Officer seat to the PERA Board and they voted to 'take no action' but discuss it at the next planning meeting. That was last October and the Board was mostly against it. See this post in our MNCORA Blog.

https://mncoretirementassociation.blogspot.com/2024/10/pera-meeting-and-planning-meeting-update.html

This Thursday they vote. While the bill will be coming from the Legislature the Pension Commission very much considers PERA's position on it.

It is to our advantage to get the Board to support our bill for a Correctional Officer on the board.

Please, please take a minute to email them and tell them very simply you are a PERA member of the Correctional Plan and you want them to support a Correctional Seat on the Board.

This is what MNCORA wrote to the Board before the planning meeting. https://mncoretirementassociation.blogspot.com/2024/10/mncora-letter-to-pera.html

Important points are the State CO's have a seat on the State Pension Board and it's cost neutral. This is not a paid position!

FORWARD this to other PERA members not on our list!

Here's their emails below.

Thomas.Stanley@mnpera.org,

dennis.flaherty@mnpera.org,

Julie.Blaha@osa.state.mn.us,

Paul.Bourgeois@mnpera.org,

Mary.Falk@mnpera.org,

Paul.Ford@mnpera.org,

Kathy.Green@mnpera.org,

Barb.Johnson@mnpera.org,

jeni.konigsburg@mnpera.org,

scott.schulte@mnpera.org,

thomas.thornberg@mnpera.org,

doug.anderson@mnpera.org

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