7-23-08 Agenda

1.	Approval of Prior Commission Meeting Minutes
2.	Summary of 2008 Legislative Session Pension Legislation Staff Materials
3.	Mandated Study of Teacher Retirement Benefits (Laws 2008, Ch. 349, Art. 1, Sec. 7) No Staff Materials Discussion of study parameters, timetable, and process for assembling recommendations
4.	Retention of Auditing Consulting Actuary (Laws 2008, Ch. 349, Art. 10, Sec. 9 and 17) No Staff Materials Discussion of desired qualifications for consulting actuary, desired specific consulting actuary functions, desired audit schedule, desired contract length, and desired contract bidding and award process
5.	Presentation of the Results of the 2000-2006 Experience Study of the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association (SPTRFA) No Staff Materials Philip Kapler, SPTRFA Executive Director Jim Koss, ASA, Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company
6.	Resumption of Designated Commission Interim Study: Review of the Commission's Principles of Pension Policy Staff Memo 1 Staff Memo 2 1997-2008 pension legislation potentially at variance with the Commission's Principles of Pension Policy Analysis and policy discussion of 1997-2008 pension legislation at variance with current Commission Principles of Pension Policy
Other Items as Designated by the Commission Chair.

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