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Meetings
April 28, 2009 speakers will be Katie M. Johnson and Gene Williams
are with The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and
Medicare.

Chapter 25 meeting April 28th at 10:30 A. M.
The speaker for Tuesday, April 28, 2009 is will be Katie M.
Johnson.
Katie is, and has been for the past thirteen years, the Grassroots
Manager for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security
and Medicare. She takes special interests in economic security
and retirement issues as they impact and relate to people of
color, rural residents, and persons with disabilities. She received
a Bachelor of Science Degree from Hampton Institute (now
Hampton University), Hampton, VA and a Master of Arts Degree
from Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH. She is a graduate
of the Administra- tion on Aging’s National Leadership Institute
on Aging and she serves on the Board of Directors of the
National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs
(NANASP).
She served as the Executive Director and Planner at the Quin-
River Community Action Agency, and as Director of
Neighborhood Services at Total Action Against Poverty in the
Roanoke Valley, both located in Virginia. Moving to
Washington, DC, she first worked as Special Assistant to the
Executive Director at the National Association of Community
Action Agencies. From there she served as Technical
Assistance Coordinator at Wider Opportunities for Women
and State Coordinator at the Southeast Women’s
Employment Coalition.
Her experience in employment issues led her into the field of
aging where she worked as a Regional Manager for The National
Council on the Aging’s Senior Community Services Employment
Program (Title V). Subsequently, she was employed by the
National Association of State Units on Aging as a Project Director
for its State Leadership in Minority Aging Project.
We have a very serious problem confronting us in the
form of a new petition being circulated.
RENEGOTIATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PENSION
CONTRACT.
INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Eliminates certain state constitutional restrictions on
renegotiating public employee pension contracts.
Allows vested pension benefits to be reduced for
existing and prospective public sector retirees.
Summary of estimated by Legislative Analyst and
Director of finance of fiscal impact on state and local
government. Possible reduction in pension costs for
state and local governments, depending on future
actions by state and local governments and courts. Any
such reduction likely would be largely or entirely offset
by negotiated increases in other cost, such as employee
salaries and wages.
DO NOT SIGN THIS PETITION

Retired Public Employees' Association of California RPEA CHAPTER 025 Jim Spaulding President El Dorado Park Senior Center 2800 Studebaker Rd, Long Beach, CA 90815, 562-570-3228
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