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Government of the Virgin Islands· Retirement System Board Meeting
GERS Retirement System (Board of Trustees)
May 28, 2020 · 0.1 hours · gov
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https://youtu.be/OZXvDTuoPOs
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everybody ready okay i'd like to call to order the employees retirement system of the government of the virgin islands
regular meeting of the board of trustees for thursday june 25th 2020. roll call please Trustee Caldwell?
0:00:00
Present. Trustee Bowery? Present. Trustee Clendenin? Excuse. I'm going to put excuse. Trustee Cohen? Present. Trustee
Liger? Present. Trustee McDonnell? Absent. Trustee Smith? excused chairman connor present five present one absent
two excuse thank you we have a forum um any letters anything from the retirees no okay I need approval of the
Secretary's Minutes for the regular meeting held on May 28, 2020. Any suggestions, any corrections, deletions,
additions?
0:00:33
If none, do you get a motion for approval? There is a move. I second. Thank you. Second. Who second? Liger. Thank
you. Trustee Caldwell? Yes.
0:01:45
Trustee Bowery? Yes. yes trustee leiger yes trustee mcdonnell absent trustee smith excused chairman calendar yes five
yes one absent one excuse okay thank you sir communications and correspondence is none none okay shaman's report i
don't have official report i just want to make sure everyone is aware of the governor's uh plan to have a task force and i
see it's on the agenda for discussing for discussion later on so i will make no other comments about it just to remind
everyone that you know we did have a a task force uh in place in 2008 under governor de young and of course because
Governor Mapp had the Mercer report.
0:02:18
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People named in this transcript
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title is the one used in the room. Being named here is NOT evidence that a person attended or spoke · only that the name was said. Speech
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Governor Kenneth Mapp
heard in this transcript as: Mapp
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Trustee Leona E. Smith
heard in this transcript as: Smith
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Trustee Vincent Liger
heard in this transcript as: Liger
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