Fifth Member Position: Everett Retirement Board

Fifth Member Position on the Everett Retirement Board

The Everett Retirement Board ("Board") is seeking applicants for the Fifth Member of the Board, to be chosen by the other four board members, for a three-year term commencing on July 26, 2025. 

The five-member Board acts as fiduciaries of the Everett Retirement System and performs their Duties solely in the interest of it's members and beneficiaries. The Board oversees the administration of approximately 1500 active, retired, and inactive members. The day-to-day administration is conducted by the Director. Board members are paid an annual stipend of $4,500.

The Board normally meets once a month, generally on the last Wednesday of the month at 9:00 AM.

Board members are required to: 

• File an Annual Statement of Financial Interest with PERAC detailing personal assets
• Complete Conflict of Interest and Ethics training biannually
• Develop knowledge of Massachusetts Open Meeting Law
• Develop knowledge of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 32
• Attend meetings, seminars and educational trainings as necessary
• Complete 18 hours of training during their three-year term in order to continue to serve on the Board.
• A minimum of three credits of training must be earned annually.

The Fifth Member's term runs for a three-year period from the date of appointment. Interested candidates should submit their letter of interest and resume to the Everett Retirement Board, c/o Robert Shaw, Director at 484 Broadway, Everett, MA 02149 or submit electronically to Robert.shaw@ci.everett.ma.us no later than Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 2:00PM. Applicants will be invited to interview with the Board at the June monthly Board meeting, which will be held on June 25, 2025 at 9:00AM in the Mayor's Conference Room at Everett City hall.

Prohibitions:

Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 32, § 20(4)(b), the Fifth Member shall NOT be an employee, retiree or elected official (elected or appointed) of the Everett Retirement System.

Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 32, § 20(4 7/8E), 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 became 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 a 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)(l), 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 Stated 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 labor organization or employee benefit plan to seek or obtain an illegal gain at the expense of the members of the labor organization 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.