City of San Diego Retired Employees Association September 11, 2018 General Meeting Minutes The August 2018 Treasurer’s Reports were approved. Joan McNamara announced the October 10 tour to the Balboa Art Conservation Center. Mike Bresnahan announced the next two speakers. [...]
Well, I offer thanks to the Board and Dave Twomey for my opportunity to be the August Speaker on my favorite topic, how we are being coaxed into accepting people bicycling on our roads. I hope to have provided useful [...]
Retirees: This is one of those situations where we gain no satisfaction from saying, "We told you so," because the results are even more deleterious than we suspected. In looking at the photo of Prop B supporters, optimists all, I [...]
City of San Diego Retired Employees Association August 14, 2018 Board Meeting Minutes NOTE: All votes were unanimous unless otherwise noted Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by President Jim Baross at 9:35am. Board Members Present: Jim [...]
City of San Diego Retired Employees Association August 14, 2018 General Meeting Minutes The minutes for the July 2018 meeting and the July Treasurer’s Report were approved. President Jim Baross announced that a Nominating Committee is being formed. One member [...]
Retirees: City of San Diego employees have been most fortunate to have been represented by MEA and their outstanding attorney, Ann Smith. With difficulty, I condensed a list of descriptive superlatives to just one, "outstanding." Over the years Ann Smith [...]
Retirees: In case you missed it, here is a letter to the editor from one of our retirees, Chris Brewster. Joe Flynn, Retiree August 3, 2018 U-T Letter writers Re “Supreme Court rules San Diego skipped key legal step in [...]
Retirees: This is news that a few years back would have had the paper sellers downtown yelling, Extra, Extra, Read all about it,............. This news will have the elected officials and budget analysts in City Hall burning the mid-night oil. [...]
Happy Summer to all! I hope that those of you that are able to attend our monthly General Membership meetings are keeping up with the changes in speakers scheduled. VP Dave Twomey works diligently with assistance from Board members to [...]
Retirees: Current San Diego elected officials and management are, I am sure, spending some sleepless nights. A few of the current elected officials were active participants in Prop B and a few city staff who were involved are still on [...]
City of San Diego Retired Employees Association July 10, 2018 General Meeting Minutes The minutes for the May 2018 meeting and the May & June Treasurer’s Reports were approved. President Jim Baross announced that a Nominating Committee is being formed. [...]
City of San Diego Retired Employees Association July 10, 2018 Board Meeting Minutes NOTE: All votes were unanimous unless otherwise noted Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by President Jim Baross at 9:30am. Board Members Present: Jim [...]
Well, interesting times we're having, or are some of you blissfully keeping clear of any news outlets? From national to State to strictly local issues, the falsely claimed to be a Chinese curse - "May you live in interesting times" [...]
June brings our annual choices for which health and other insurance programs we will sign up for. Yes, it matters. SDCERS has been scampering to react to the City driven change from HealthNet to Cigna; several opportunities are being prepared [...]
City of San Diego Retired Employees Association May 8, 2018 Board Meeting Minutes NOTE: All votes were unanimous unless otherwise noted Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by President Jim Baross at 9:32am. Board Members Present: Jim [...]
City of San Diego Retired Employees Association May 8, 2018 General Meeting Minutes The minutes for the April 2018 meeting and the April Treasurer’s Report were approved. Retirement Board Representative Charlie Hogquist reported that the City is transferring its deferred [...]