Meeting Minutes May 2022
CORRE Board Meeting
05/18/2022
Attendees: Whitehead, Petrie, Angelelli, Hightower, Whitley, Rogers, Gibson, Hubbard, Shelton, Wasilko, McRae, Manrod, Morris, Standifer, Davis, Kibbe, Stocks
• May Minutes – Approved as modified.
• May Treasurer’s Report – Approved.
• CNS – Wasilko
• Pantex removed from contract.
• CNS contract to be extended for 2 years.
• Gibson – Question regarding retiree numbers.
• Continuing problem connecting with Benefit Plans office at CNS.
• Golden Services – Rogers
• Meeting June 13 with HR Director (Brad Odum); Mike Golden to attend.
• Rogers to send out agenda.
• There are discrepancies between what the contractors have and what DOE has in proposed pension fund contributions.
• UCOR – Manrod
• Hickey – On May 23 transition activities wrap up.
• Request meeting on July 26 1:00 PM at 701 Scarboro Road Office. Limited to 3 CORRE attendees, but AGRE will defer their slots to us.
• New contract has no change regarding PGDP/PORTS.
• UT- Battelle – Hightower
• Meeting May 26 via Zoom.
• Will send out agenda.
• AF Notice compilation complete and sent out.
• Planning – Gibson
• No new report.
• Sent out historical UCC/LM newsletters.
• Nominations – Rogers
• Members have been notified regarding 2023 suggestions for Board.
• 4 current members to leave – Rogers, Kibbe, Davis, Swift.
• Looking for 6 new members.
• Communications – Kibbe
• Thanks to Lester for helping to get out mass email.
• Working on bulk email mailings plan.
• OR Retirees 2.0 is the retiree Facebook page.
• Website – Hubbard
• No new report.
• Nominations request has been put out.
• Other Sites – Stocks
• No new report.
• McRae – Email was sent to Sandia looking for retiree info.
• Government Relations – Whitley
• No new report.
• Elections are in play.
• Need to notify Fleischmann/Burchett re our testimony to be sent in.
• Annual Meeting – McRae
• No new report.
• Nov.7 at 2:00, Zoom.
• Pension Fund Analysis – Gibson
• Has pulled together OR notices and a few others.
• Cited Senior Citizens Committee Report regarding SS and inflation.
• OR contractor pension funds: CNS 106.45%; Golden Services 83.19%; UCOR 82.59%; UT-B 89.0%.
• By-laws – Swift
• No by-laws changes now; semi-annual review next year.
• Whitehead -- Annual audit issue.
• Cannot afford to hire it done.
• Need credentialed volunteer.
• Need to revise our by-laws regarding audit.
• Consensus is to wait until next year to address by-laws.
• Manrod – Give Janet a heads-up on this issue.
• Executive Committee – Whitehead
• Info packages nearing completion.
• Working on presentation forms of packages.
• Action plan in progress for “Road Show.”
• Manrod – What do we want to ask for?
• Suggestion: 2% spouse option correction; pension adjustment to 75% recovery of inflation loss; treat all retirees the same.
• Adjourn at 12:03.