The Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Plan 2 Retirement Board voted May 28 to adopt its actuarial, administrative and benefit topics for interim work after amending the list to remove several items and to move one subject to a staff communications product.

Trustees debated several proposed study items and then acted to remove specific topics from the formal interim work list. The board removed a request that it seek retroactive L&I benefits for members with multiple-exposure PTSD (a Department of Labor & Industries matter) and several other items from the list; trustees also removed a proposal to study employment of firefighters across multiple agencies. The board moved at least one topic from the formal study list to a staff communications approach rather than a policy study.

Jacob White, staff to the board, had presented a longer list of possible benefit topics and described expected workload for each item; trustees asked staff to prepare educational briefings for topics the board retained and to track select-committee and agency work to stay prepared. "We could do an educational briefing on the merger proposal," White said when describing options; trustees emphasized the need to manage expectations and to avoid signaling support for measures the board has not endorsed.

The board then moved and passed a separate motion to adopt the actuarial, administrative and benefit topics as modified. No formal legislative endorsements were taken at the meeting; several topics were left available for addition later if circumstances change during the interim.