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Minutes of the May 24, 2018 Retirement Board meeting: Present: Robert Cunha, Joe Foley, Alan Fields, Frederick Weiss, Carolyn Kosnoff, Marguerite Oliva and Jim Condon NEW MEMBERS: (9) Anthony Serio, Assistant Director; Ross Morrow, Asst. Town Engineer; Michelle Bellavia, Instructional Asst.; Jenny Diez, Catherine Horan, S.S.I's; Kelly Cutone-Clair, Municipal Clerk; Scott Bouthiette, Todd Laramie, Residential Inspectors; Scott Pedraza, Custodian. DEATHS: Alice Stevens, survivor of Edward Stevens, 5/08/18 RETIREMENTS: (5)Roberta Wanyo, Admin. Asst. 6/30/18; Ray Drapeau, Facilities Super., 6/1/18; Patricia Sullivan, Fed. Program Coord. for LHA, 7/9/18; Agnes Pallaver, Library Associate, 6/7/18; Carl Valente, Town Manager, 8/3/18 The Board accepted the 053118 Warrant and May payroll. The April minutes were reviewed and approved, as well as the cashbooks for March 2018. Bob Cunha began the meeting regarding the RFP's that were received and reviewed for the retirement board's legal counsel for the next seven years. The Law Offices of Michael Sacco and Murphy, Hesse, Toomey& Lehane were the two candidates on the agenda for discussion. After review, Bob made a motion to accept the services of Attorney Michael Sacco over Murphy, Hesse, Toomey& Lehane. The motion was made at 8:05 AM, seconded by Fred Weiss, and approved by Joe Foley to continue with the law services of Attorney Michael Sacco. Alan Fields and Carolyn Kosnoff were not present for the vote. Marguerite spoke regarding the overpayments being made to ADR retirement recipient Mr. James J. O'Brien. Our office recently discovered Mr. O'Brien was being too much based on calculations done in our office and at PERAC. There has been an overpayment made on the pension portion of Mr. O'Brien's monthly payment. Beginning with the May 2018 pay, only the Annuity portion of his pension will be paid. There is enough to cover his medical and dental insurance deductions each month. We will contact the parties involved to set up a monetary plan to recoup the overage owed back to the Town. Mr. O'Brien will owe roughly $7,000.00. At 8:15 AM, the Board welcomed in Dan Sherman from Sherman Actuarial Services to present analysis on appropriation forecasting/funding for the retirement system. He explained in detail the employee and employer costs from 2016 to 2018 and out to 2020. The total normal cost percentage should remain around 12.4%if all assumptions are met for 2020. He spoke about the employer appropriations under the current funding schedule and the appropriation forecast out to 2024 with figures found on page 7 of his presentation. Dan concluded we should not make changes to our funding schedule, and hold our assumptions to 7.5%. When his office receives the new data from the town, he will analyze and report back to us later in the year. Henry Jaung and Steve McLellan presented the Meketa update. Despite a turbulent Is`quarter 2018, the market is back on track. The U.S. economy and investments are strong and performing well. The portfolio is up 1.4% through April with an overall balance of$170,653,379.00. Wellington Enduring Assets performed well for us in April,posting 3.5%,which outperformed its benchmark. Henry feels market performance will continue to perform well, even after the recent Federal Reserve report. Earnings and expectations of the market should continue to rise in the coming months. Steve McLellan gave an update on the RFP's for a new Senior Direct Lending Manager. Meketa was in receipt of 12 RFP's on the closing date of May 18, 2018. It was more than they predicted to receive.