The Association is a nonprofit association whose function is to provide strong dignified and responsible representation for the purposes of improving the economic benefits and the physical and social welfare of all retired City of San Diego employees, and all beneficiaries, including spouses, of the San Diego City Employees Retirement System.
For information on joining the Association, click here.
"Helping Hand" Group Beginning for Retirees
An issue that impacts everyone is, what are all of the things that you have to do when your spouse or significant other dies, or what will your spouse have to do when you die? You might consider the importance of being well-prepared to answer these questions. Click here for more information.
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San Diego Retired Employees' Association
July 2009 Meeting
at the beautiful
Mission Bay Yacht Club
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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SAVE the DATE and Reserve Early!
Potential members are welcome to join Retirees, Spouses, Retired Fire and Police, plus Airport, and Port retirees. Seating limited to 125 people so Reserve Early. <More Details> |
June 15- CSDREA Parliamentarian Robert West has updated the Health Insurance Information paper to reflect new Medicare rules, particularly the premiums for Part B.
<Press here to review paper>
Alternative dental plan available
June 11 - Ron Moskowitz, former president of RFPA, has sent Nancy Acevedo two messages regarding dental coverage that is available to our association members.
<See messages>
City attorney: Pension DROP was approved improperly
June 3 - The SDUT reports that San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith declared yesterday that a pension benefits program decried for years as a source of double-dipping was never properly approved, something that he said has escaped notice since 1997
While his predecessor, Michael Aguirre, might have seized on the finding in his all-out assault on pension benefits, Goldsmith repeatedly said he is not out to dump the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or DROP, in San Diego. The link to this story is in the "Press Articles" section of the Members-Only area
When Is a Majority Vote Not a Majority Vote?
June 2 - The Voice of San Diego reports that City Attorney Jan Goldsmith's opinion that a controversial deferred retirement program was never properly implemented received the scorn of labor union lawyers who called his analysis flawed and preposterous Tuesday.
But the argument received the support of the man Goldsmith unseated, Mike Aguirre, whose lawsuits challenging pension benefits were a hallmark of his tenure and a fulcrum of the campaign attacks by Goldsmith and Aguirre's numerous City Hall foes. The link to this story is in the "Press Articles" section of the Members-Only area
Pension Scandal? San Diego Had a Pension Scandal? Who Knew...
May 1 - The voice of San Diego reports that the other day, three men appeared in front of the San Diego City Council to answer any questions that august body might have for them as they went through the final stages of being appointed to the city's pension board.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders had selected Herb Morgan, Richard Tartre and Edward Kitrosser to replace three people on the pension board. Voters decided in 2004 that since so many billions in taxpayer dollars were at stake with every decision made there, the board that oversees the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System should no longer be dominated by city employees. The link to this story is in the "Press Articles" section of the Members-Only area.
June 19 - Patti Karnes attended the SDCERS Board Meetings and has submitted her "notes' regarding the meetings in her usual complete and precise manner. Patti's notes can be seen in the Retirement Board Update section of the Members-Only area.
City sees victory in DROP lawsuit - Appeals court rejects police union's case
June 11- The SDUT reports that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit filed by the San Diego Police Officers' Association objecting to changes the city made to retirement programs.
The union sued in 2005 after the city imposed a contract on its members that contained benefits reductions.
Officers enrolled in the city's Deferred Retirement Option Plan were required to take a 3.2 percent pay cut. The program, which allows employees to collect pension payments in a special account while still employed, is sometimes criticized as double-dipping. Citywide, 1,788 employees are signed up. The link to this story is in the "Press Articles" section of the Members-Only area.
Wescoe to Goldsmith: Withdraw Your Memo
June 3 - The Voice of San Diego reports that
the top retirement system official today requested City Attorney Jan Goldsmith withdraw his legal memo opining that a controversial deferred retirement program was never properly implemented, saying the legal research conducted by Goldsmith's office was "demonstrably incomplete."
In a scathing letter, San Diego City Employees' Retirement System Administrator and CEO David Wescoe noted that Goldsmith's memo didn't address a 1996 memo from former City Attorney John Witt's office that reached the opposite conclusion of Goldsmith.
The link to this story is in the "Press Articles" section of the Members-Only area
Pension Cases Slow Going, Even By Court's Standards
May 19 - The voice of San diego reports that
back in May 2005, when the first of two pension-related corruption cases was filed against former San Diego pension officials, the mayor was Dick Murphy, the new city attorney was Mike Aguirre and the trial of two city councilmen in the infamous Strippergate case was underway.
Those players are long gone now. But four years later -- and counting -- eight ex-pension officials charged in a state pension case, a federal pension case, or both, are marking time, still waiting for their day in court. The link to this story is in the "Press Articles" section of the Members-Only area