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11 <br />MEMORANDUMS & LETTERS RECEIVED <br />PERAC Memo #20/2009 - Revisions to PERAC's Accounting Manual for Massachusetts Pension Systems <br />PERAC Memo #21/2009 - Disability Retirement Process and the New Treating Physician's Statement <br />PERAC Memo #22/2009 - SJC decision in Foresta v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board - <br />Memo from Nicholas Poser - Re: Decision of Supreme Judicial Court in Foresta v. CRAB and Mass Turnpike - <br />An injured employee of the. Turnpike was properly denied ADR benefits where his job was permanently modified <br />to remove physically taxing tasks. The court noted that the job may be modified even after an application for <br />Accidental Disability Retirement has been filed if the application was filed before the employer has had a <br />"reasonable opportunity" to modify the job. <br />Memo from Ralph White - Re - Special Commission to Study the Massachusetts Contributory Retirement <br />System Pension Reform Update - The Commission Chair Alicia Munnell is determined to recommend that <br />retirees' health insurance premiums under Ch. 32B be linked to years of service on a pro rate formula. While <br />retirement boards do not administer health insurance programs (other than premium withholding), the direction <br />that the chair is insisting the commission take on this issue would be a devastating impact on the members. <br />PERAC - Save September 9`h for PERAC's 2009 Emerging Issues Forum - PERAC will host the fifth Emerging <br />Issues Forum at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. The subject will be public pension reform. <br />OLD & NEW BUSINESS <br />ADJOURNMENT <br />• FRANCIS DRISCOLL moved to adjourn this open session at 6:50 P.M. <br />SECONDED BY: DANIEL SEFERIAN <br />VOTED: (5-0-0) UNANIMOUS <br />elected <br />Gail I aPointe, Ex Officio <br />Z)J (~P, 7 <br />Rchard P. Foley, 1" ap ointed <br />k <br />016t7 <br />Francis P. Driscoll, 15` elected <br />i A A <br />Vice Chairman, DanikYB. Seferian, 2nd appointed <br />