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2008-11-10 Police Fund Meeting• CITY OF OKEECHOBEE POLICE FIRE AND OKEECHOBEE UTILITY AUTHORITY PENSION BOARD MEETING MINUTES November 10, 2008 CITY GENERAL/OUA, POLICE AND FIRE FUNDS 1. The meeting was held at City hall, 55 Southeast 3rd Avenue, Room 200, Okeechobee, Florida, and was called to order by Mr. Mullis at 5:00 p.m. CITY GENERAL/OUA MEMBERS Jamie Mullis, Chair - Present Robin Brock — Present Basile Coule-Present Jerry O'bannon-Present Jess Manson-Present POLICE OFFICERS MEMBERS Denny Davis, Chair - Present Bettye Taylor, Secretary-Present Victoria Williams - Absent Louise Chandler - Present Bill Bartlett- Absent FIREFIGHERS MEMBERS • Bill Douglas, Secretary-Present Brook Conway-Present John Keopke-Present Glen Hodges-Present Meeting called to Order by Jamie Mullis at 5:00 PM. Bo�ven Hanes Bowen Hanes representative spoke first. He advised he was at the meeting to discuss the Fixed Income side of the Portfolios. He advised that the Market was terrible for everyone the whole month of October. He advised that the Sub prime Market was operating with loans for people with no income verifcation. He advised that their company did not deal in the real estate market so they did not pay much attention until the problems started to affect Wall Street. Said their company does not think we are headed into a depression. Said the Federal Reserve and Treasury are implementing every tool they have to turn this volatile market around. Said the investment market has grounded to a halt. Said commodity cost is down. Said stock market is cheap right now. They are focused on companies with little or no debt. Corporation's cash net worth has never been higher. The companies will start spending again soon. Hedge funds collect money to invest then borrow again their loans. • Said they are now having to sell and are losing a lot of money. • Their company is total managers for a lot of funds. They feel with total control of the fund they can have more mobility with when and how to invest money to get maximum return. Said this has helped them in their investment strategies. Said after considering everything they have agreed to handle the 3 funds as consolidated fund for the flat fee of 50 basis points if they have total control of the whole fund. Said he knew we were considering Vanguard Investments, which is a good fund, but it does not have active management to move money when it needs to. Said spread between Treasury Bonds and Corporation Bonds has widened. Said normally they are close but this economy has widened the basis points between them. Said the Treasury Bonds are losing value. Said with Trillion Dollars being pored into the economy some felt like it might spike inflation. Said this means their investment managers have started buying some corporate bonds, which have an inflation index, built into them. Said the three plans will do well with the right mix of assets, which requires a total manager. Bogdahn Group Timothy Nash from Bogdahn Group said Vanguard Investments is a passive management account. Said we would have a more active manager if we allowed Bowen to take total • account instead of dividing it up. Said this had been a very difficult quarter for everyone. October was very bad. Market is off by 1/3. With negotiating for lower fees and preserving capital will be able to get through the losses. Our portfolios are better then most due to the stocks and bonds that we had. Police had a total loss of 12.46%. We were in top of pack in investment. Bond Managers at Trusco did a good job. Our Portfolio's did well in such a tough market. Each of the boards has a 60% equity limit with 10% in foreign investments. After searching the best deal for a custodian to replace Trusco the one with the best deal and lowest fees is Salem Trust. They have an account minimum of $4000.00 and a fee of 6 basis points. Attorney Scott Christiansen Recommended the boards not sign the new contract with GRS, as he does not like some of the items they have included in it. Advised for Fiscal Year Letter #2 addressed to Okeechobee City Council via Mr. Whitehall needs to be done by each board. Advised Timothy Nash would be the point man for the transitions to Bowen Hanes and • Salem Trust. , • Advised that Police Board needs to vote to appoint Chairman and Secretary. Police Votes Louise Chandler made motion, seconded by Bettye Taylor, approved by all for Bowen Hanes to take over as Total Manager of Portfolio. Louise Chandler made motion, seconded by Bettye Taylor, approved by all for Salem Trust contracts to be signed to make Salem new custodian of Portfolio. Louise Chandler made motion, seconded by Denny Davis, approved by all to accept minutes from October 20, 2008. Louise Chandler made motion, seconded by Bettye Taylor, approved by all to accept expenditures for June 2008 through October 2008. Bettye Taylor made motion to table GRS contract and give Scott Christiansen permission to renegotiate contract. Seconded by Deruiy Davis, approved by all. The board decided to wait for reappointment of Chairman and Secretary until we have a full board at next meeting. . Bettye Taylor made motion to adjourn meeting. Seconded by Denny Davis Meeting adjourned at 6:50 PM. Denny Davis Chairman Bettye Taylor Secretary �