The Governor’s signing into law HB 69, containing the Adam Bird amendment, left unchallenged, would change the composition of the STRS Pension Board from seven elected pension members and four political appointees to three elected pension members and eight political appointees.  This is unacceptable.

The Board’s consultants are consistently telling the STRS board, the STRS staff, and STRS members that the main problem is the Ohio Legislature. Simply put, Ohio legislators are, and have been, underfunding the pension system.

This leads back to our pension plan, and to the STRS staff allegation that there is a “hostile takeover of a public pension system” taking place. Oddly, the STRS staff got that right too. However, it isn’t ORTA, it’s the Ohio Legislature. We’re working to prevent this from happening. And where is the STRS legal staff in allowing it to happen? It’s our pension plan. Please help us in this fight.