Trustees approve policy committee changes to disability review process

The Government Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees voted to adopt changes to the disability review process recommended by the board’s policy committee. Trustee Clark moved to adopt the policy committee’s recommendations; the motion was seconded and carried with votes recorded as yes from Trustee Clark, Trustee Dorsey, Trustee Smith and Trustee Caldwell. Trustees Leger (Liger in the record) and Russell were recorded as absent. The motion as adopted implements the policy committee’s submitted changes to the disability review process. The board did not read an implementing ordinance or statute during the item and no external authority was cited on the record. Discussion in the meeting was limited to the motion and the roll call for the vote; the transcript does not record further substantive debate about the specific procedural changes during the public portion of the item. The action recorded in the minutes is adoption of the committee’s recommended amendment to the disability review process. The board moved immediately on to the next agenda items following the vote.