CORRE Board of Directors Meeting and Zoom Online Meeting
June 12, 2024

Attendees: Angelleli, Burton, Chilcoat, Cox, Franco, Gibson, Lee, McRae, McSpadden, Petrie, Randolph, Riggs, Shelton, Whitehead; Guest: Parish

• Call to Order by Whitehead

• May Board Meeting Minutes – Riggs, Approved

• May Treasurer Report – Petrie reported eight (8) new memberships from the K-25 Reunion and dollars deposited in April and three (3) memberships in May. Approved.

• By Laws (moved up on the Agenda due to time constraints). Shelton sent By Law Amendments notice May 13 with expected vote today. The Independent Financial Audit posed Amendments to Article VI.3.B. to be amended to include: “The CORRE Secretary shall collect all membership contributions and document them in the receipt ledger. The Secretary will then submit the contribution to the Treasurer for deposit in the CORRE bank account.” The Secretary and the Treasurer will write a procedure/guideline as to how this will be carried out. Whitehead will appoint someone on the Executive Committee once each year to review the Bank Statement and produce an Independent Treasurer’s Report for that month. A motion was made to make these changes to the By Laws effective June 12, 2024; motion approved unanimously. Shelton will revise the By Laws and send out electronically and to the CORRE website.

• Contractor Team Reports

• CNS meeting to be determined; Pantex split off from Y-12 contract and the Pantex DOE office already standing alone.

• Golden Services – all is quiet; discussion took place on several companies who may be awarded the contract; stay tuned for more information coming soon.

• UCOR – CORRE and AGRE representatives meet with UCOR on July 24; discussion centered on the next K-25 Reunion; Riggs volunteered to be on the K-25 Reunion Committee as a CORRE representative and will ask for another rep from AGRE.

• UT- Battelle – tentative costs estimates were given to CORRE, as soon as authorized we can discuss estimates; Carissa will let Whitehead know, if no word in the next two weeks, Whitehead will call Carissa.

• Committee (and Task Team) Reports

• Planning – Gibson idea that Contractors rotate sponsorship of CORRE Annual Meeting and give presentation on their work efforts.

• Nominations – Board members must respond to Paul Wasilko via email if they plan to remain as a member on the Board.

• Communications – McSpadden asked for input and ideas for the August Newsletter; he discussed emails, the size of email distribution and blocked email distributions; he reminded everyone about the CNS Cares lunch at the Museum of Appalachia on June 13th; and CORRE Board representatives will gather email names and addresses and handout our brochures and Newsletter at the event.

• Website – topic is combined with Communications.

• Improving Communication Task Team – topic is combined with Communications. Task Team has been dissolved going forward (blended in with Communications Committee).

• Other DOE Sites – Discussion centered on the Corporate Transparency Act – 501(3)(c) exemption from reporting ownership; the SRS Annual meeting will be April 29, 2025.

• Governmental Relations – Cox reported on her contact with Cindy Boshears, a tentative CORRE Annual Membership meeting set for November 8 with an invitation to Fleishman and same invitation to Blackburn and all legislative leaders.
Cox discussed her work on government relations meeting with Randy McNally in attendance. Whitehead met with Chelsie Ivens, Blackburn’s staffer, Emily McCaul, Hagerty’s staffer, and sent out the CRS report on COLAs. Cox will resend Y-12 HR org charts to CORRE Board members.

• Annual Meeting – The upcoming annual meeting was discussed; a CORRE table will be provided and the local worker health protection representatives will be contacted for their participation and volunteer table set-up and meet and greet; Gibson will send the CORRE tax EIN to McRae.

• Pension Fund Analysis – Gibson discussed inflation factors.

• By-Laws – reported above, earlier in the meeting.

• Executive (Pension Increase Initiative) – Whitehead discussed recent efforts.

• Other Business

• Financial Advisor Appointment – opening still exists.

• Authorization of BOD Expenditures/Reimbursements – nothing new to report.

• 2024 CORRE Annual Work Plan Status Review – Whitehead reported on the upcoming Contractor meetings; the slate of CORRE Board nominees will be posted on the website.

• Adjournment at 11:40 a.m.