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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:225.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Don, Ron and Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:225.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think the goal here is to
have two effective and reasonably comparable retirement programs for employees
at the University of Idaho.  A personal financial adviser recommends that one
rebalance one’s portfolio every two years or so.  Given that future projections
for stocks and bonds are very different now from what they were twenty years
ago, it is also makes sense for the University to realign its retirement offerings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Judy<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Donovan Arnold
[mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com; JLBrown; Ron Force<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Good Economic News<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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  <p class=MsoNormal>Ron,<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for the detailed explaination. <o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>It sounds like to me, except for those forced onto this
  plan, took a gamble and lost. I think it would be unfair to the faculty that
  were forced into the plan to have to compensate PERSI. But those that opted
  for it sound like they just lost a bet rather than going for the sure thing
  of PERSI. <o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>These gamblers seem to have cost PERSI lots of revenue,
  and those in it, and the University, and thus the students. I don't see why
  they should be allowed to skip out on their agreed to contract of paying what
  they owe back to the students, faculty, and University.<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Of course, my understanding could be wrong, but as you
  explained it to me, that is the way I see it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Your Friend,<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Donovan Arnold<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><br>
  <br>
  --- On <b>Sat, 12/12/09, Ron Force <i>&lt;rforce2003@yahoo.com&gt;</i></b>
  wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
  From: Ron Force &lt;rforce2003@yahoo.com&gt;<br>
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Good Economic News<br>
  To: &quot;Donovan Arnold&quot; &lt;donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com&gt;,
  vision2020@moscow.com, &quot;JLBrown&quot; &lt;jlbrown@turbonet.com&gt;<br>
  Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 12:02 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal>Donovan,<br>
  <br>
  In the early 90's there was a proposal to move university faculty from PERSI,
  which is a defined benefit program to a defined contribution program.&nbsp;
  Under defined benefit, a pension is based on a combination of years of
  service and the salary received (usually the highest pay over some months,
  like 60). The contributions are pre-tax, and when the pension is received,
  it's taxed at regular income rates.&nbsp; If the employee leaves employment
  before retiring, they could withdraw or roll over their contributions, but
  not the employer's. The employer and employee contribute to a centralized
  fund, managed by the state, in the case of PERSI. Regardless of the return on
  the fund, the state is obligated to pay the pensions.&nbsp; <br>
  <br>
  In the defined contribution plan, the employer and employees contribution
  goes into a choice of managed funds, which become the property of the
  employee. Once again, they're pre-tax, so if they're taken out they become
  subject to regular income tax. Under IRS rules, withdrawals before the age of
  59 1/2 are subject to an additional penalty.<br>
  <br>
  Faculty were certainly unhappy with PERSI at the time.&nbsp; It had the
  lowest pension payout rate in the West. If you changed jobs and went to
  another state, inflation would eat up the value of the pension, and if you
  withdrew the funds, you lost the employer's contribution.&nbsp; The previous
  twenty years in the stock market showed that retirement funds invested in
  mutual funds would outpace PERSI, and of course intelligent faculty could
  easily pick winning stocks. The university liked the idea of the defined
  contribution plan, since most of the new faculty they wanted to recruit
  envisioned being mobile, getting the call from Harvard after a few years,and
  a non-mobile retirement plan was a disincentive.<br>
  <br>
  On the state side, having so many (relatively) high-paid people in PERSI
  magnified the risk that their investment strategies would fall behind pension
  obligations and have to draw on general taxation for retirement payouts.<br>
  <br>
  The deal was that faculty who were in PERSI could stay with it until
  retirement, or switch to the new defined contribution plan. All new faculty
  would be placed in the defined contribution plan (no choice). Most of the
  grandfathered faculty chose to go with the defined contribution plan and were
  happy to do so.&nbsp; To compensate PERSI for the loss the universities
  agreed to continue a minimum payment to PERSI for each faculty member on
  defined contribution.<br>
  <br>
  Things didn't work out for everyone as envisioned.&nbsp; PERSI got better
  management and increased their benefits.&nbsp; The stock market didn't do as
  well for the majority as anticipated, although some got lucky and juggled
  their funds at the right time to avoid the big losses in 2001 and 2008. And,
  faculty mobility has declined considerably.&nbsp; Many of the faculty who had
  the choice now realize they would have been better off in PERSI, but I guess
  hindsight is always better.<br>
  <br>
  In the real world (outside government) the defined benefit pension is as dead
  as a doornail, and the employer contributions to 401Ks (defined contribution)
  are rapidly disappearing, so complaints from the Ivory Tower sound a little
  like whining.<br>
  <br>
  Sorry to be so long-winded answering a simple question. Anything to
  add/correct, Judy?<br>
  <br>
  Ron Force<br>
  Moscow ID USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:
  10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Donovan Arnold
  &lt;donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com&gt;<br>
  <b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com; JLBrown &lt;jlbrown@turbonet.com&gt;<br>
  <b>Sent:</b> Fri, December 11, 2009 12:37:54 PM<br>
  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Good Economic News</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Judy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Perhaps you
    can explain to us why people are on the ORP instead of PERSI?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Donovan
    Arnold<br>
    <br>
    --- On <b>Fri, 12/11/09, JLBrown <i>&lt;jlbrown@turbonet.com&gt;</i></b>
    wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:
    "inherit","serif"'><br>
    From: JLBrown &lt;jlbrown@turbonet.com&gt;<br>
    Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Good Economic News<br>
    To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
    Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 6:36 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <div id=yiv19824803>
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    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Visionaries,</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
    </blockquote>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This is good news for PERSI
    participants.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>&nbsp;However, UI
    employees who are on the University’s Optional Retirement Program (ORP),
    which is subject to market fluctuations, have taken a hard hit as a result
    of this recession.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>&nbsp;ORP
    participants have been required to subsidize PERSI since 1990.<span
    style='color:#1F497D'> </span>&nbsp;Especially with PERSI doing so well,
    the time is ripe to end this subsidy.</span><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Judy</span><span style='font-family:
    "inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>Moscow-Pullman <i>Daily
    News</i><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'><b><span
    style='font-size:16.0pt'>Faculty Senate calls for end to retirement plan
    subsidy</span></b><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>Published on: November
    4, 2009<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>University of Idaho
    Faculty Senators want the state’s university presidents, board of education
    members and faculty leadership to pressure the Idaho Legislature to drop a
    requirement that members of the UI’s Optional Retirement Plan subsidize the
    Public Employees Retirement System of Idaho.<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>Senators passed a
    resolution Tuesday afternoon strongly recommending the aforementioned
    parties ask the Legislature to end the subsidy and redirect the PERSI-bound
    money into accounts of ORP participants.<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>The resolution’s text
    states the Legislature in 1990 directed that a portion of the employer-paid
    contributions reserved for ORP members be paid to PERSI, even though ORP
    participants do not benefit from PERSI.&nbsp; It also says ORP accounts are
    subject to market fluctuations, while PERSI members do not experience such
    a risk, leading to “unfair and unequal treatment of OPR participants.”<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>Senate Chairman Jack
    Miller said if the Legislature eventually does away with the subsidy, PERSI
    may need to seek additional funding in the form of a rate increase.&nbsp;
    However, he said the subsidy’s elimination wouldn’t affect the benefits of
    current PERSI enrollees.<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>“All it would be doing,
    in my estimation, is taking away a subsidy that should never have been
    there in the first place,” he said.<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-right:189.75pt'>&nbsp;<span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText>&nbsp;<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText>&nbsp;<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText>&nbsp;<span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-----Original
    Message-----<br>
    From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]
    On Behalf Of Tom Trail<br>
    Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 6:51 AM<br>
    To: vision2020@trumpet.fsr.net<br>
    Subject: [Vision2020] Good Economic News</span><span style='font-family:
    "inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Visionaries:</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One
    has to look hard for good economic news in Idaho these days.&nbsp; I just</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>talked
    to Don Drum, the Executive Director of PERSI--Idaho Public Employees</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Retirement
    Fund.&nbsp; The information he shared with me is current as of today.</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
    PERSI Fund&nbsp; stands at $10.5 billion which is ahead of the total when</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the
    market dropped.&nbsp; From July 1, 2009 the Fund has a return of $15.8%</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>which
    is the best return in PERSI history.</span><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PERSI
    retirees will receive a 1% COLA which will be effective March 1st.</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Employers
    have been expecting a contribution rate increase for the</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>coming
    year, but Don told me that the Fund is performing so well that</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>there
    will probably be no increase at all.</span><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>That's
    my one good glimmer of good news.</span><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'>
    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
    <p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:
    10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rep. Tom Trail</span><span
    style='font-family:"inherit","serif"'><br>
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