Fifth Member Position: Blue Hills Regional School Retirement Board

Blue Hills Regional School Retirement Board
Fifth Member Position

The Blue Hills Regional School Retirement Board will accept applications for the Fifth Member position for a three-year term commencing on July 30, 2025. Interested candidates should submit their letter of interest and other qualifications to the Blue Hills Regional School Retirement Board, c/o Frank Zecha, Executive Director, via email at fzecha@bluehills.org by Thursday, June 26th at 12:00 noon.

The Blue Hills Regional School Retirement Board is responsible for overseeing the operations of the Blue Hills Regional Retirement System as fiduciaries to the approximately 50 active and 50 retired members and beneficiaries. The Board meets one day per month and at other times as needed. The annual stipend is $4,200.​​

Board Members are required to obtain 18 credits of educational training during a three-year period, with a minimum of 3 credits each year of the term, and to file Annual Statements of Financial Interest with the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission. Board Members must comply with the public employee retirement law, G.L. c. 32 and 34B § 19, the State Ethics Law, G.L. c. 268A, as well as the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §§18-25.

Prohibitions

Massachusetts General Law Chapter 34B, § 19(b)(4). Applicants shall not be an employee, retiree or official of the Blue Hills Regional School Retirement System, or of any of its constituent governmental units.

Massachusetts General Law Chapter 32, § 20(47/8E). No employee, contractor, vendor or person receiving remuneration, financial benefit or consideration of any kind, other than a retirement benefit or the statutory stipend for serving on the retirement board, from a retirement board or from a person doing business with a retirement board shall be eligible to serve on a retirement board; provided, however, that an employee of a retirement board may serve on a retirement board other than the retirement board by which the person is employed; and provided further, this subdivision shall apply only to individuals who first become members of a retirement board on or after April 2, 2012.

840 Code of Massachusetts Regulations 1.03. No individual who has been convicted of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, fraud, grand larceny, burglary, arson, a felony violation of state or federal law defined in Section 102(a) of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, murder, rape, kidnapping, perjury, assault with intent to kill, any crime described in Section 9(a)(1) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-9(a)(1)), a violation of Section 302 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 186), a violation of Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States Code, a violation of Section 874, 1027, 1503, 1505, 1506, 15l0, 195l, or 1954 of Title l8 United States Code, a violation of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. 401), any felony involving abuse or misuse of such person's position or employment in a labor organization or employee benefit plan to seek or obtain an illegal gain at the expense of the members of the labororganization or the beneficiaries of the employee benefit plan, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes, or a crime in which any of the foregoing is an element or has been found by the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission or any court to have violated his/her fiduciary duty or has been found by the Ethics Commission or any court to have violated M.G.L. c. 268A, shall be permitted to serve as a member of a retirement board.