RH Jones and Linda Meinelt re: Covering STRS employees under STRS retirement

From RH Jones, September 21, 2009
Subject: An ORC crafted to change STRS employee retirement

Linda & my OH Rep. Brian Williams:

I cannot speak for CORE, but as I recall, we have been trying for years to get the legislature to pass an OH Revised Code (ORC) that would switch the OH STRS employees' retirement to our STRS. The problem is: the legislators get their retirement checks from the OPERS; so, they are not about to send the lucrative STRS employee/employer retirement contributions back to the STRS. We can only hope that the Honorable OH Legislators would be statespersons -- who would be unselfish enough to craft a ORC -- and subsequently pass it into law. Can this happen? I doubt it.

Note: in the past, as far as I know, the ORTA, nor OEA-R has never aggressively tried to get our legislators to craft such a law.

As a retired teacher & a long time monitor of my OH STRS, respectfully,

RHJones

From Linda Meinelt, September 20, 2009
Subject: Re: Decision to pay bonuses a bad one

I wish there were a way to have STRS employees covered by STRS for their retirement-- then, they would really be concerned about their futures. Right now, they have the best of both worlds -- OPERS for retirement and STRS benefits..

Linda