CORRE BOARD MEETING
12/21/2022

ATTENDEES: Whitehead, Burton, Chilcoat, Cox, Davis, Gibson, Hubbard, Jessen, Kibbe, Manrod, McRae, McSpadden, Riggs, Shelton, Shoemaker, Standifer, Wasilko

• November Minutes—Approved

• November Treasurer’s Report—Approved

• CNS—Wasilko for Whitley
• CNS at some point made a request for a pension increase. Wasilko and Gibson have questions but no further information. Will follow up after Holidays.

• Golden Services—Rogers (absent)
• Contract is up October 2023. RFP will issue in January. CORRE sent comments, mainly about the possibility of giving contract to different size company, putting guard forces under ORNL, and solving the spouse problem.

• UCOR—Manrod
• No particular update. There has been no comment from Fleischmann’s area as yet

• UT Battelle—Hubbard for Hightower
• No new report

• Planning—Gibson
• Brought up the need for a planning meeting in January or February to brainstorm future planning, priorities, etc. Need to update Strategic Plan. This will help keep us on track. Dave Whitehead has set this meeting for February 1 at 10 AM on Zoom. Any suggestions can be forwarded to Dave at any time. Meeting should last about 2 hours.

• Nominations—Walsilko for Rogers
• The Board decided to fill the three current vacancies on the 2023 Board of Directors in accordance with the CORRE BYLAWS. Accordingly, the Nominations Committee (represented by Paul Wasilko -- 2023 Nominations Committee Chair) in the absence of Jim Rogers (2022 Nominations Committee Chair) presented Tony Chilcoat, Nick Jessen, and Sam McSpadden to the Board as candidates to fill the three vacancies. These three individuals were approved unanimously by the Board of Directors and will begin serving a one-year term of office effective January 1, 2023.
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• Communications—Kibbe
• No new report.

• Web Site—Hubbard
• Whitehead commented there is a lot of information on the web site that is out-of-date. He asked for an action plan to update these items.

• Other Sites—Stocks (absent)
• No new report. Luther did mention that Savannah River and Idaho had Annual Meetings. They have asked CORRE for help with items to discuss with their contractors. CORRE may become mentors for other sites! Dave mentioned that federal employees are receiving almost 9% COLA effective January 2023.

• Government Relations—Whitley (absent)
• No new report. However, copies of the updated presentation were sent to all earlier recipients. There has been no action thus far.

• Annual Meeting
• No new report. Suggestion made for action plan instigated by Communications regarding ease of notifications to membership. See info below.

• Pension Fund Analysis—Gibson
• Keeping an eye on inflation numbers. What $1.00 in April 1993 would buy now requires a $1.83 to purchase. Also mentioned was the approximately $36Billion bailout recently provided to various unions by the Government compared to the relative cost for the COLA requested by CORRE.

• ByLaws—Shelton for Swift
• The main review of CORRE ByLaws is scheduled to take place in 2023. The wording for required changes should be sent to the committee for consideration.

• Other Business—Whitehead
• Review completed by Donna Cox to recommend new wording in the ByLaws.
• There has been no response from the IRS regarding the reports submitted by CORRE to catch up with inadvertent late submissions.
• Whitehead distributed a new list of Committee memberships for members to peruse. He plans to finalize the Committees by January.
• According the CORRE ByLaws, advisors to the board must be appointed annually. Motion was made and seconded to appoint Terry Byrd and Donna Cox as advisors for 2023.
• Communications planning was addressed. The Committee will form a task force to look at solutions to the communications problems and propose an action plan to the board.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.

Submitted by
Judy Kibbe, Secretary pro tem