TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Linda A. Nemeroff, District Secretary
SUBJECT: Recruitment for the AC Transit Retirement Board
ACTION ITEM
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider adoption of Resolution No. 20-054 reappointing Jeffrey Lewis and Davis Reimer as the two public members to the AC Transit Retirement Board; and the interim appointment of Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer Chris Andrichak to fill the unexpired term for the non-ATU member on the Retirement Board effective January 1, 2021 and until such time as a permanent appointment is made.
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
There is no strategic importance associated with this report.
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no impact to the District's budget resulting from the recruitment of Retirement Board members.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
Ordinance 10 sets forth the parameters for making appointments to the five-member AC Transit Retirement Board. It specifies that two members from the public shall be selected by the District's Board of Directors (Board) based on criteria established by the Board, and one member shall be selected by the Board from employees who are not represented by ATU, Local 192. These members serve a two-year term. The two remaining members of the Retirement Board are elected officers of ATU, Local 192.
On February 27, 2019, the Board adopted Resolution No. 19-003 reappointing Jeffrey Lewis and Davis Reimer to the public member positions on the Retirement Board and Chief Financial Officer Claudia Allen to the non-ATU employee position on the Retirement Board. On October 7, 2020, at the Joint Meeting of the Board of Directors and Retirement Board, the District Board was advised that the two ATU members and Ms. Allen would be leaving the Retirement Board by the end of the year. These changes to the Retirement Board would leave the two existing public members as the only members of the Retirement Board with any historical knowledge.
Even though, the terms of the two pu...
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