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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS GERS BOT's Monthly Meeting 8/21/25 GERS Retirement System (Board of Trustees) August 21, 2025 · 0.2 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/mqnwXyRrBpE Status This is NOT the official transcript. 3 V.I.C. § 884 requires the agency itself to make a verbatim record of its proceedings and reduce it to a transcript within sixty days. This is a working transcript produced by machine from a recording of the proceeding, offered as a finding aid. Transcribed by VI Update, using OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo, run locally. Not reviewed by a person. Reliability Automatic transcription, UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording before relying on it. Speech recognition splits spoken digits and wraps figures mid-number, so a dollar amount, a vote count or a bill number can be wrong in a way that reads as correct. 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No permission is needed, and none is ours to grant or withhold. um are there any comments on suggestions from retirees are there any comments or suggestions from active members uh so i'm going to shout out to any secretaries minutes for the june 18 20 25 meeting are there any corrections that it is that need to be made for those minutes i have a point information you got any minutes no i have a point information chair i have a short day today so i really would like to reorganize our agenda for items that we really need to vote on uh specifically in the executive session um yes that's this that's the school of the secretary's minutes i'm sorry okay that's funny mr chair make a motion to accept the um the minutes is there a second second the motion to accept the in 2018 minutes ruled by trustee smith secondly by trustee dobson trustee tom and barb 0:00:00 yes i see clark yes that's the andre dorsey yes trustee dorsey yes trustee vincent liger Mayor. Absent. Trustee Ronald Russell. Absent. Trustee Leona Smith. Yes. Trustee Smith. Yes. Trustee Paul Wood. Yes. Trustee Paul Wood. Yes. Mr. Chairman. Four yes. Two absent. 0:01:48 Thank you. All right, Trustee Dawson. Yeah, I'd like to make a motion to reorder the agenda, specifically the items that need be voted on that was coming out of the executive session which would be the medical review disability policy board bylaws uh revisions and then the board travel policy revisions so move second can i can i ask you to amend your promotion to move those items into regular session instead of of any process oh that's what i thought too okay so i made my motion to move the items that were scheduled on the agenda in executive session to be moved in on the new business into regular session to uh be the next item on the agenda to vote on at this time second moved by trustee Okay, Clark, you're frozen, so we didn't hear you vote. 0:02:16 Oh, I'm sorry, second. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, yes. Yes, that's the mercy. See, Dorsey. Or someone as well. I'm the one I just about to my last. Yeah, we just lost trustee Dorsey. 0:03:45 Let's reset the one. Hey, with respect to these... 0:04:18 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. hello hello hey trusty dossier okay i'm back in the system went out sorry about that no worries 0:05:18 Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. VI Update · usvipublicrecords.com · public record, no rights asserted (CC0 1.0) 1 of 2 GERS Retirement System (Board of Trustees) · GERS BOT's Monthly Meeting 8/21/25 understood thank you are we back in session no there was a brief pause oh i think it's island wide i don't think it's island white because i have internet issues myself too so it might be broader than that i was just signed with the former whopper person telling him about something i guess he just we didn't agree and i was wondering if he did me something because are you telling him it's nonsense they doing over there not having these um backup fuses for these transformers ain't making no sense are we are we back on record um we said um waiting for chelsea smith's writing about them but everybody online everybody else yeah the elaborate analysis of over into the situation Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 0:08:47 Okay, we're waiting for your assessment, so we're going to try to get you back. Wait a second, Chair? okay thank you chairman did we approve the uh vote to reorder the agenda already we're in the middle of that would we sense some of the other parts are less sensitive to a vote would we just want to continue reading that stuff until we get her back on yeah we don't have a call okay thank you You 0:12:02 People named in this transcript SUSPECTED, and a finding aid only. Names were matched by machine against the spellings used across all 426 of our transcripts, and the title is the one used in the room. Being named here is NOT evidence that a person attended or spoke · only that the name was said. Speech recognition mishears names, so a spelling may be wrong even where no alternative is offered. 3x Trustee Leona E. Smith heard in this transcript as: Leona Smith, Smith 2x Trustee Ronald Russell Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. 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