I attended the PERA meeting on March 14, 2024. MNCORA's main concern today was the threat of adding dispatchers to our Correctional Plan. MNCORA submitted a letter opposing this.  The PERA Board voted to oppose adding them to our plan. It's interesting that this came up after this was recently proposed and shot down. There was the 911 Telecommunicator Pension Benefits Working Group that was put together by the Senate Legislative Pension Commission that did not support adding Dispatchers to the PERA Correctional Plan. Yet one year later here we are. It's disturbing to see  that Senators   Seeberger    and  Pappas   who are both on the Pension Commission have now AUTHORED SF4958  (companion to HF4796) to add dispatchers to our pension! Ignoring their own study.  Petitions are going out to County Jails and MNCORA encourages you to sign one. They will be sent to the Pension Commission to let them know our displeasure. Adding them endangers o...

Part 1 will explore how the current threat  to the PERA Correctional Plan began. Who? What? On March 1st 2021 Minnesota State Senator Bigham introduced SF 2198 described as  " 911 telecommunicators transfer from the general employees retirement plan to the local government correctional plan; transferring eligible service credit " This was quickly co-authored by Senators Housley and Pappas and joined by a companion bill in the House HF 2585 authored by Representative Berg. When the PERA Correctional Plan was formed in 1999 the initial  Correctional Officers   did not transfer any service credit from their previous PERA pension and initially had to wait 3 years to be vested! SF 2198 and HF 2585 did not proceed as written, but on May 3rd 2021 Senator Bigham introduced SF 2485 . The Bill description is, " 911 telecommunicator pension benefits working group establishment."  What is this working group studying?  Bill 2485 reads ...