HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-02-25-RB-minMinutes of the February 25, 2016 Retirement Board Meeting
Present: Robert Cunha, Joe Foley, Alan Fields, Rob Addelson, Fred Weiss, Marguerite Oliva, and Karen
Marchant
Bob Cunha called the meeting to order at 8:00 AM.
NEW MEMBERS: (7) Meghan McConnell, Danielle Griffith, Instructional Asst.; Laura Houlihan.,
Peter Cherepanov, Firefighters; May Tulin, SSI; Amy Moris, SIA; Mark Fahey, Laborer
DEATHS: Laura Anno, School Lunch, 2/15/16; Joseph Nugent, Assessor, 2/19/16
RETIREMENTS: Dianne Cornaro, Admin. Clerk, 3/4/16; William Hadley, DPW Director, 3/25/16
The Board accepted and signed the 022916 Warrant and February payroll. The January 2016 minutes
were reviewed and approved as well as the cashbooks for December 2015.
Bob began with discussion on FY17 Annual COLA and recommended 3% on $13,000 base. After little
discussion there was a motion by Bob seconded by Joe and voted unanimously.
A copy of a letter was received from Mike Sacco regarding Joe O'Leary's appeal to DALA regarding
whether or not buyback of vacation time is pensionable. Mike will keep us posted and up to date.
It was reported there were no updates at this time on the Laura Creedon case.
It was reported Jason Morey is still moving forward with the ADR. Three separate medical panels have
been arranged for March.
The Town wired $299,188.75 to the Vanguard OPEB fund on 2/2/16. The Town funds this quarterly
from the tax levy.
There was a Golub distribution of $67,600 to cash.
Karen's review in March.
The Library meeting rooms will be temporarily unavailable for Board meetings from June — September.
The Parker room at the Town Hall will be used for meetings during this time.
The Board was reminded of PERAC Memo #5 for the lSt quarter 2016 Board Member Training.
Hartford representatives will be attending the March 24 meeting.
A buyback request was received from Carol Mejail for the five years of service she was employed part-
time as a tutor. She is now working full time. A motion was made by Joe, seconded by Fred and
approved unanimously to accept her request.
Maggie contacted Arlington Retirement regarding how they track hours for membership. The
Administrator is copied on all correspondence to retirement school members and receives copies of all
EAF's. Maggie will meet with Rob, Bob and Laurie to discuss a resolution.
Bradley Huggins, Jake Brown and Thomas Egan were present for the Wellington Management annual
review. Lexington invests in the Enduring Assets and Opportunistic Funds. They reported the market
values as 12/31/15 for Opportunistic as $11,643,357 and Enduring Assets as $9,467,817. They gave a
relationship and team overview and discussed performance, characteristics, regional & subindustry
weights and top and bottom contributors.
Ed Schollmeyer was present for the Fidelity annual review. Lexington invests in Contrafund and reported
the entire fund is at 2.3 trillion with Lexington's year end value at $18.6 million and performance at
6.40 %. He provided a tenure performance graph and says it has outperformed 98% of peers. He also
discussed investment process, strategy, earnings, buy & sell discipline, sector weights, top 10 holdings
and components of risk management.
Steve MacLellan presented Meketa's December 31, 2015 quarterly review. He compared performance
with PRIT and said it impressively matched it for the year with Contrafund being the best performing
equity of the year. He gave a 1/31/16 interim update and reported the market value at $132.0 mil down
from $136.6 mil. After an asset allocation review it was determined to reallocate funds. There was a
motion by Alan, second by Fred and voted unanimously to move $2.5 mil from Matthews to Acadian.
Steve also provided a Fiduciary Large Cap Equity Review including an overview, historical performance,
portfolio characteristics and management fees. Out of the last 9 years, FMI's performance beat the
market only 2 times. It was recommended to put Fiduciary on watch while looking for an alternative and
Meketa will add a benchmark of Russell 1000.
Meketa announced their expansion with MSCI InvestorForce to enhance performance reporting and
provided a copy of the Data Gathering Memorandum. Meketa also provided a list of the Real Estate
Search Responders to the RFP. Out of the nine managers that responded to the RFP, Meketa is currently
preparing a respondent review and has scheduled interviews with Intercontinental, Investors Diversified
Realty and National Real Estate Advisors.
A motion was made, seconded and approved unanimously to adjourn the meeting at 10:05.
The next meeting will be held March 24, 2016, 8:00 AM at Cary Memorial Library.
Robert Cunha, Chairman Alan Fields, Appointed Member
Robert Addelson, Ex Officio Member Joseph Foley, Elected Member
Frederick Weiss, Appointed Member