Management Services Committee Considering IMRF Pullout for County Board Members

The first salvo of Jack Franks candidacy for McHenry County Board Chairman.

The first salvo of Jack Franks candidacy for McHenry County Board Chairman.

The second committee to weigh in on whether McHenry County Board members should stop participating in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension program will meet Monday at 8:15.

It’s the Management Services Committee, chaired by Tina Hill.

The first was John Jung’s Human Resources Committee.

Everyone voted to get rid of them.

Jack Franks reprints an article from the Northwest Herald on the back of his first piece.

Jack Franks reprints an article about the Human Resources Meeting’s action from the Northwest Herald on the back of his first piece.

The members of the Management Services Committee are

  • Michele Aavang
  • Jim Heisler
  • Tina Hill
  • Bob Martens
  • Anna May Miller
  • Michael Skala
  • Michael Walkup

Phone numbers and emails of the members can be found here.

The Board waited so long to respond to State Rep. Jack Franks’ criticism of pensions for part-time jobs, that he is now using what should have been positive publicity for the County Board in his first County Board Chairmanship literature distribution.


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Management Services Committee Considering IMRF Pullout for County Board Members — 1 Comment

  1. Similar to TRS (public school teacher and administrator pension fund in Illinois), government employers can also pick up some or all of the employee contribution in the IMRF pension fund.

    For example, this from the recently negotiated collective bargaining agreement between the West Aurora District 129 and the West Aurora Office Professionals Association (WAOPA), IEA-NEA.

    “15.9 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Contributions.

    The District currently pays both the employee and employer contributions.”

    There are approximately 2,980 government employers that participate in IMRF.

    Some of those employers have collective bargaining agreements with multiple public sector labor unions, and of course there are various administrator contracts and at-will employees, the point being, the perk may not be across the board for all IMRF members at any given employer.

    How many of those 2,980+ employers pay some or all of the employee’s pension contribution to IMRF?

    How many government employees receive the perk?

    The excuse for the perk is typically it was negotiated in lieu of a salary increase.

    That could be said for any perk.

    And the practice is seldom if ever disclosed to the public at the time the perk was granted.

    The practice should be made illegal by the Illinois General Assembly and Governors in IMRF and all 20 of the Illinois public sector pension systems.

    For instance, employers do not pick up the employees Social Security contribution.

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