Meeting Minutes October 2019

CORRE BOARD MEETING
OCT 16, 2019

Attendees: Gibson, Hightower, Kibbe, Mason, McGrory, Petrie, Randolph, Whitehead , Whitley, Brashears, Shoemaker, Shelton, Manrod, Angelelli

• Minutes – Approved.
• Treasurer’s Report – Approved.
• CNS
• Whitley asking for meeting.
• Discussion of $150 stipend.

• Golden Services
• Representative (Mike Tillery) on board in February.

• Burchett’s Office
• Whitehead emailed him regarding CORRE.
• Working on setting up meeting.

• Tarcza Meeting
• Holding off until after Burchett meeting.
• Subject is benefits regarding Golden Services

• Sandy Keen (K-25) looking for place for AGRE (~70-80 people) to meet.

• UCOR
• Draft RFP under review (Gibson).
• Concerns regarding pension fund management.

• UT Battelle
• No change in ORNL drug program cost/stipend.
• ORNL offering legal insurance plan (wills, home buying, ID theft).

• Planning – Gibson
• Issues list sent out.

• Discussion of Benefit Plans – Whitley
• Drug plan regarding incorporation into CNS Express Scripts drug program.
• Advantage offer local in-plan coverage not much out of town.
• Let’s put together info package and approach CNS with the issue.
• The one thing we can do for retirees is to help with drug plans.
• Oak site -- Ridge Retirees Benefits Information Center (Debbie/Pam) working on drug information package.
• Y-12 drug info from retirees needed for study.
• Worker Health Protection Program payout.
• ~$16B nationwide.
• $5B-$6B in Oak Ridge.

• Nominations – Hightower
• Mike Tillery (Golden Services) wants to come onboard.

• Communications – Kibbe
• Discussion of participation in Cold War Patriots meetings.
• Why do we do it (Mason)?
• Do we want to continue to participate?
• Will Cold War patriots share emails with us?
• Will Cold War patriots ask for email distribution?
• No (Whitley).

• Website
• Honeycutt sent out status report email.
• Wants pictures of CORRE Board members.
• Suggest we do this in January.

• Other sites – No report.

• Legislative
• Focus on Burchett meeting.

• Annual Meeting
• Attendance issue (we gave out 47 tickets)
• We need to do something for people (Whitley).

• Pension Analysis – Gibson
• Discussion of info contained in Form 5550 regarding pension funds.
• Discrepancy between what Golden transferred and what ORNL received.

• Other Business
• Need minutes from Annual Meeting.
• Will be making new committee assignments.
• Consider Y-12 Facebook page.
• Company not taking care of retirees as before (Whitley).
• We don’t need to go thru AON.

• Adjourn at 11:11.