Meeting Minutes April 2019

CORRE BOARD MEETING

APRIL 17, 2019 

Attendees: Angelelli, Gibson, Hightower, Johnson, Kibbe, Mason, McGrory, McRae, Morrow, Petrie, Peterson, Randolph, Tilley, Whitehead, White, Whitley  

  • Minutes – Approved. 
  • Treasurer’s Report – Approved. 
  • CNS – Whitley
    • Do we have a list of names and addresses?
    • We need to file FOIA request with DOE.
    • NNSA request will go to Albuquerque.
    • Long process to retrieve info (~4 mo.).
    • Experience is 5-7 mo. and counting. 
  • Golden – Johnson
    • Meeting at 1:00 today.
    • How many retirees are they responsible for?
    • Town Site and K-25; probably <50. 
  • UCOR – Peterson
    • Meeting on May 20 at 1:00.
    • Office moving from K-25 701 Scarboro.
    • They are working on ben/val.
    • Pension funding is >80%.
    • Annual notice (as of Jan. 2018) out this month.
    • John hickey has sent proposed agenda for meeting. 
  • UT-Battelle – No report.
    • Meeting in late April (?). 
  • Planning Committee – Gibson
    • Do we go forward with open house?
    • Debbie is getting 3-5 people a week coming to them.
    • Whitley – Companies are not taking care of retirees as they should.
      • We need to force companies to have a place where retirees can come in to talk.
      • Mostly on health insurance issues (maybe 90%).
      • Companies are neglecting retirees on benefits.
      • Good chance that X, Y will respond.
    • Let’s get volunteers to get open house started.
    • DOA community budget workshops, May 15.
      • We should be represented there. 
  • Nominations – No report. 
  • Communications – Kibbe
    • Meeting with Cold War Patriots.
    • They will put out our brochures.
    • We can have a presence at their next 4 meetings (ice cream socials).
    • Getting list for volunteers, May 14, 15, 16, 17.
    • AMSE will put out our brochures.
    • Children’s Museum will post our brochures.
    • Heritage Museum will put out our brochures. 
  • Website – No report.
    • Issue regarding notifying website about contacting CORRE.
    • Link not working.
    • Mason volunteers to field requests if link gets working. 
  • Other Sites – No report. 
  • Legislative – No report.
    • We will make contact with Burchette. 
  • Annual Meeting
    • We have New Hope, Sept. 20, 1:00-3:30.
    • They are looking to see if they can waive fee.
    • Cold War patriots want to be there.
    • We’re asking contractors to come to meeting.
  • Constitution/By-Laws Review – McGrory
    • Report sent out.
    • No major changes.
    • We will vote on cosmetic changes next month.
    • Pension Plans => Defined Benefit.
      • Should we specify?
      • We will have retirees with pensions plans that are not defined benefit. 
  • Whitehead re Nominations
    • We can have up to 3 VPs.
    • We now have 2 VPs.
    • Do we want to add third VP back? 
  • Pension Fund Analysis – Gibson
    • Annual report is always in arrears.
    • Spouse option/minimum pension issue mentioned.
    • If spouse passes, retiree’s pension pops back up to max.
    • Whitley – Y-12 has said they are not interested in changing spouse option – that was the plan people who retired before 2004 worked under. 
  • Golden Letter
    • Dependents, including spouses, are not covered when retiree is deceased.
    • How about going forward? Are retirees grandfathered?
    • No HRAs associated with Golden.
    • Question is implications of the letter/ changes from NSPS coverages. 
  • Dave to send out reminder regarding AON report.
    • Looking for comments. 
  • Secretary left meeting at 11:30.

 
Submitted by TA2