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St John Fire Pension Board appoints three trustees; questions raised about PERF paperwork delays
Summary
The St John Town Fire Pension Board approved three trustee appointments — including Travis Abel and Ed Smith — and confirmed Lindsay Kuzabel will fill a vacancy and take over as pension board secretary. A participant questioned why PERF enrollment paperwork initiated in May was not forwarded; the secretary said he had not received key communications.
The St John Town Fire Pension Board on June 23 appointed three trustees and confirmed an internal change in the pension board secretary role, then heard questions about delays in processing PERF enrollment paperwork.
Lindsay Kuzabel was offered to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Rich Felkauskas and will finish Felkauskas' term through 2029 and take over as pension board secretary at the conclusion of the meeting, the board said. The board then considered three additional appointments.
A motion to approve the candidate identified in the record as “Gabby” carried by a voice vote with members responding in favor and no nays recorded. The board approved the appointment of Travis Abel after a motion by Trustee Caitlin Deal and a second by Lindsay Kuzabel; that voice vote also passed with affirmations and no nays recorded. Trustee Caitlin Deal moved and Lindsay Kuzabel seconded the appointment of Ed Smith; the motion passed by voice vote with no nays recorded. The transcript records members answering aloud to indicate support but does not include a roll-call tally by name.
The board read the trustee term expirations during the meeting: D.C. Sharp to 2027, Trustee Caitlin Deal to 2028, and Pension Board Secretary Mike Gillette to 2029; Kuzabel will complete the term through 2029.
After the appointments, a participant raised concerns that PERF paperwork for new hires — which the participant said had been initiated in early May and for which an email reminder was sent on May 28 — had not been forwarded to Indianapolis for processing. “Mike, please submit access paperwork by the end of the business day tomorrow, May 29th,” the participant read aloud from an email they said they had sent; the record shows the participant saying they had called and left messages when they received no reply.
Pension Board Secretary Mike Gillette responded that he had not received the communications the participant described and asked to see the emails. Board members discussed that paperwork cannot be forwarded until there is a meeting or until procedural steps are completed and noted that a prior attempt to schedule the committee’s annual organizational meeting had failed because the board lacked a quorum earlier in the year.
The exchange ended without a further recorded administrative action; the board moved to conclude and adjourned the meeting.
The board did not record individual roll-call votes in the transcript; recorded approvals are by voice vote with members answering in the affirmative and no opposition stated.
Next steps: the transcript does not record any follow-up assignment or timeline for submitting the PERF paperwork; board members indicated the secretary would be shown the emails and the meeting concluded.
