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Retirement board adopts governance overhaul, new public comment policy and delegates limited policy approval to CEO
Summary
The board approved a multi‑year governance roadmap, a standardized 'policy on policies', an amended public comment policy (removing a hard 30‑minute per‑item cap) and delegated authority to the CEO to approve city policies affecting ORS operations, all by unanimous roll‑call votes.
The San Jose Office of Retirement Services board on Wednesday approved a package of governance changes intended to modernize policy review and clarify public participation rules.
Amanda Hu, a program manager with ORS, outlined a multi‑year governance roadmap to review charters and policies (34 governance documents on the federated side) and recommended shortening the policy review cycle from five years to three. "We really want to bring this to a 3 year review cycle so that we could just keep our documents a little bit more updated," Hu said.
Trustees approved the multiyear work plan after discussion about priorities and capacity; staff said they…
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