Will County Gazette

Aurora Police Pension Board of Trustees met Wednesday, Jan. 13.

Here are the minutes as provided by Aurora:

MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BOARD OF TRUSTEEES OF THE POLICE PENSION FUND OF AURORA, ILLINOIS HELD ON January 13, 2016

PRESENT: Daniel Hoffman -Trustee/Retiree/President

Lawrence Suttle -Trustee/Active/Vice-President

James Brown -Trustee/Active/Secretary

Brian W. Caputo -Trustee/Appointed John Duggan -Trustee/Appointed

ALSO PRESENT: Charles Atwell, Jr. -Attorney Representing Police Pension Board

Erin Miller -Pension Clerk Janet L. Hayden -Court Reporter

Meeting was called to order at 8:08 a.m. in the 5" floor Conference Room B, City Hall, 44 East Downer Place, Aurora, Illinois. -

MINUTES-The minutes of the regular meeting held on October 21, 2015.

Motion was made by Trustee Suttle and seconded by Trustee Brown to accept the minutes of the regular meeting held on October 21, 2015 to be approved as received. Motion approved unanimously.

NEW POLICE OFFICERS AS OF 3/16/15 & 6/22/15 – Discussion followed.

Motion was made by Trustee Caputo and seconded by Trustee Brown to accept the following police officers into the Police Pension Fund as of their date of employment. Motion approved unanimously.

1. Cory Walden 3/16/15 2. Colin Matthew Kehoe 6/22/15

CAICULATION OF PENSION BENEFITS – The surviving spouse pension calculation of Kimberly L. Groom effective December 10, 2015 and the patrolman pension calculation of Steven R. Lueders effective January 7, 2016.

Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Suttle to accept the pension calculation for Kimberly L. Groom for an annual amount of $112,044.47 and the pension calculation for Steven R. Lueders for an annual amount of $67,277.93 as per the memorandum from Brian Caputo, dated January 8, 2016. Motion approved unanimously.

PURCHASE OF MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT – It was noted that Timothy F. Ciochon wants to purchase 24 months of military service, related to time prior to his entry in our pension fund.

Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Suttle to accept the purchase of military service credit related to prior military service hours for Timothy F. Ciochon in the amount of $46,184.81 per the January 8, 2016 memorandum from Brian Caputo. Motion approved unanimously,

(6) ELECTION – Discussion followed. It was noted that the election for this year will be held on 4/18/16.

Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Suttle to approve the February 5, 2016 notice of the Police Pension Board Elections for retirees and the February 25, 2016 notice for active officers and to authorize the Clerk of the Police Pension Board, Erin Miller, to serve those notices in accordance with the statute and ordinance. Motion approved unanimously.

(7) ANNUAL PHYSICALS-Discussion followed.

Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Caputo to continue the disability pensions for Brian Rayburn and Thomas Kinney accepting the medical report for Brian Rayburn dated November 11, 2015 from Dr. Simon Lee and the medical report for Thomas Kinney dated September 18, 2015 from Dr. Steven Chudik. Motion approved unanimously.

(8) DECISION AND ORDER – Christopher Bekielewski – Discussion and questions followed. 

Motion made by Trustee Duggan and seconded by Trustee Brown to adopt and approve the disability claim of Christopher Bekielewski in connection with his application dated May 28, 2014 and that we adopt and approve the decision and order. Brian Caputo abstained from voting as he was not a voting member of the board when this transpired. Approved by all other members of the board.

(9) ILLINOIS PENSION CODE 1.109, 1.113.1, & 1.125 - Information only.

(10)ADJUSTMENT OF STIPEND FOR PENSION BOARD CLERK – Discussion followed.

Motion was made by Trustee Duggan and seconded by Trustee Suttle to approve a 5% increase for the pension clerk in 2016 and beginning in 2017 a 2% annual increase. Motion approved unanimously.

(11)APPROVAL OF EXPENSES-Since the meeting of October 21, 2015.

Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Caputo to approve the expenses in the amount of $3,418,907.58. Motion approved unanimously.

(12)PUBLIC COMMENT-No public comment.

13)OTHER BUSINESS

Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Suttle to accept the following dates for the 2016 Pension Board meetings. They are scheduled for April 20, 2016, July 27, 2016, and October 19, 2016. Motion approved unanimously.

Erin Miller addressed the Board regarding the Department of Insurance's findings regarding unsigned pension applications. It was noted that she was able to locate approval of these applications for current employees in the minutes. She will place those in the employees' files.

(14)Motion was made by Trustee Brown and seconded by Trustee Suttle to adjourn the regular meeting at 8:35 a.m. Motion approved unanimously, (19)]t is noted that the details of the meeting as set forth in “Report of Proceedings” by Janet L. Hayden of County Court Reporters, Inc., are herewith encompassed and made a part of these minutes.