CORRE BOARD MEETING
September 20, 2023

ATTENDEES: Whitehead, Chilcoat, Cox, Gibson, Kibbe, McRae, McSpadden, Standifer, Wasilko, Hightower, Randolph, Angelelli, Petrie

Also in attendance, future 2024 board member Ed Lee

• August Minutes—Approved

• August Treasurer’s Report—Approved

• CNS—Gibson
o Pantex RFP proposals due 9/28.
o BenVal Study and Employee Benefits Cost Study Comparison does not consider cost of defined benefit plans now closed to new entrants.

• Golden Services—Gibson
• RFP proposals due October 2. 60-day transition ends 3/1/2024. Two Q&A’s issued. No industry Day as was held in 2017.

• UCOR—Manrod
• No report

• UT Battelle—Hightower
• Nothing new to report.

• Planning—Gibson
• Suggests interviews with local media in connection with annual meeting. Also engage stakeholders and follow up to ensure they get the message.

• Nominations—Wasilko
• The list of 2024 Board Members was presented. New board members are Paul Franco, Joe Kato, and Ed Lee. New officers will be Vice President---Shirley Cox, Secretary—Teresa Riggs; Communications Director—Sam McSpadden. Kibbe will remain a board member to aid in the transition of Communications duties. These board members will be presented to the membership at the annual meeting in November. Motion to accept this slate of officers was made and passed unanimously.

• Communications—Kibbe
• McSpadden suggested some brochure updates/changes and has made an insert to the existing brochure for use at the upcoming Cold War Patriots Resource Fair.
• Improving Communications Task Force—McSpadden
• A workshop was held, where major stakeholders were identified. More brainstorming will be done.
• Various ways to communicate with members with information for the Annual Meeting were discussed.
• Sam has prepared a database containing capability for more information. Thus far most of the information for a member is e-mail. Need is for more information to populate the database.
• Different avenues to present information to the retirees was suggested: Credit Unions (if possible), museums, AGRE, etc.

• Web Site—Hubbard
• No report.

• Other DOE Sites—Standifer
o Luther commented that several people from Idaho (Teri Ehresmin and Bob Skinner would be in Oak Ridge at the National EM Site Specific Advisory Board on October
4-5. (That meeting was subsequently cancelled.)
o IREA published a newsletter containing pension questions and were asked about Medicare stipend. (It appeared there was no problem answering work-related questions, but retiree issues were a different situation.)

• Government Relations—Whitley
• Shirley Cox mentioned there was no response from Fleischmann, and asked how she could help. Suggested she endeavor to find out who in his organization might help us with our issues.

• Annual Meeting--McRae
• Action Plan was presented by Whitehead with some items already marked complete and some unidentified items assigned to board members.

• Pension Fund Analysis—Gibson
• Noted that $1.00 in April 1 998 now requires $1.89 in August 2023.
• Social Security increase in 2024 is estimated at 3.4%.
• Q&A’s from all contractors were compiled with predictable results. Form 5500s in October will provide data on 2022 plan year contributions and use of American Rescue Plan Account. Cash flow asset allocations (potentially issues) were not mentioned.
• Form letter was sent through web sites to Fleischmann, Blackburn, and Hagerty.
• The only COLA bill passed in Congress and becoming law was Veterans Disability Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for survivors of certain disabled veterans adjusted annually like Social Security.

• Bylaws--Shelton
• No report.

• Other Business--Whitehead
• Treasury Accounts review continued to be worked on by Donna Cox.
• Form letters mentioned earlier were sent by Luther. Discussion on how we want to pursue this avenue.
• $50 expenditure by Treasurer for a gift card donated by CORRE for the Cold War Patriots raffle at the Resource Fair was approved by the Board of Directors.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Submitted by Judy Kibbe for the Secretary