President's Message by REA President Mike Bresnahan Hello! In past reports I have written about the Retiree Issues Task Force (RITF). The RITF brings together representatives of REA, the Retired Fire and Police Association, management of SDCERS and key [...]
President's Message by REA PresidentMike BresnahanHello, Welcome to Spring in San Diego. As you may be aware, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) have been officially repealed. On January 5, 2025, President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R.82) into law, eliminating [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello, welcome to springtime! Looking forward to the nice San Diego weather. I thought it was a good time to remind you about The San Diego Public Employee Benefit Association (SDPEBA). As a reminder, SDPEBA [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s MessageHello, as you probably know one of the efforts REA members make to contribute to the San Diego community is to participate on the annual San Diego Food Bank holiday food drive. This year Board member Joan [...]
President's Message by REA President Mike Bresnahan Hello. Welcome to 2025! Where did 2024 go?! Normally for the newsletters I describe something that the Board has been doing which we think will benefit our organization or something that impacts [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello, I hope that you all have had a safe and happy holiday season! On a number of occasions I have written about the process of a private company taking over the healthcare tasks previously [...]
President's Message by REA President Mike Bresnahan Hello. In previous newsletters I have written that one of REA’s goals is to continue to brief new Councilmembers about REA. Accordingly, several weeks ago Board member Greg Woods and I had [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello, for our October meeting we are having our annual update from SDCERS as well as a presentation from Jon Hayes from the San Diego Public Employee Benefit Association (SDPEBA). I thought it was a [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello, I hope you are all enjoying the summer weather. In past reports I have written about an RFP the City of San Diego issued related to evaluating the potential for a private company to [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello, after many years of service to REA John Tsiknas has decided that he can no longer perform the duties that he has done for our organization. A number of the tasks that John did [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello, I hope all is well and you are enjoying the weather as it begins to warm up. I want to give a brief update on a few items previously mentioned in the newsletter. As [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s MessageHello! In past newsletters I have described a Request for Proposal (RFP) that was issued by the City Risk Management Department. This RFP was seeking an outside administrator to perform tasks related to the management of healthcare insurance [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message I want to give a brief update on several items discussed in previous monthly reports. First, we have described in past reports a City RFP related to evaluating the potential for a private company to [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello! Welcome to spring 2024. In past reports we have described our Image Enhancement Effort, part of which is REA’s participation in food drives sponsored by the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank. I [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s Message Hello! I hope that you and your families have been safe through the recent inclement weather. In a previous report I described the REA Board’s annual retreat and what we accomplished during the meeting. For [...]
President Mike Bresnahan’s MessageHello. Welcome to 2024! Where did 2023 go?! Normally for the newsletter I describe something that the Board has been doing which we think will benefit our organization.For the first newsletter of the year, I want to [...]
President Dick Wilken’s Message Holiday Greetings! I hope your Holidays have been safe and enjoyable. I am spending most of my time back east due to a family health situation. I traveled to San Diego for a few weeks [...]
President Dick Wilken’s MessageGreetings!As you know, the City has moved the Retiree Health Insurance Open Enrollment period from summer to November to align with the calendar year instead of the fiscal year. We’ve just learned that SDPEBA is going to [...]
President Dick Wilken’s Message Greetings! In-person REA General Member meetings have returned. Both July and August meetings at the War Memorial Building in Balboa Park were well attended. At the August meeting, we announced that the REA Board has [...]
President Dick Wilken’s Message Greetings. I hope you are having a great summer. As I write this I am with family in northern Virginia. Should be back for our August meeting. I understand that our July General Member meeting [...]