If I could have just got a straight answer from the Retirement Systems, it would have saved a great deal of time and a number of phone calls to Florida, but it was still quicker than filing an open records request.
So I guess I owe an apology to those members of the KRS board members and staff who were unable to make the trip this year. I’m sure they will have other opportunities for travel in the future.
I’ll be spending the next few days drafting an open records request for some information like who has attended these things for the last 10 years. There is an art to doing such a request, you need to be careful to just ask for what you want, you have to be careful or you get flooded with a mountain of worthless redacted paper.
Anyway, I hope Overstreet and Reynolds are having fun. Who couldn’t use a little spa time.
Oh, and by the way, one board member wrote me to say they were working and not in Florida, I won't comment on the difference in working and being in Florida, but in their words they: “.....never felt the agenda merited the expense of me traveling to Florida.”
I couldn’t agree more.
2 comments:
Good morning Mr. Long. I appreciate you keeping an eye on our state agencies. However, I am concerned that you would post this...
"I understand the working majority of the Kentucky Retirement Systems and Executive Director and probably new General Counsel of the Kentucky Retirement Systems are going to a conference in Florida."
...without knowing for sure. I know you made extensive attempts to contact krs, but writing extensively on your assumption is a discredit. Then you excuse it on March 16 by saying...
"I’m sure they will have other opportunities for travel in the future."
Keep up the good work - I enjoy your blog. Take care.
Dang I retired from KRS too early. I could have used a few days in the sun! Was there 30 years and never went anywhere on the taxpayers dime!
Ralph, could you enlighten me on what happened with Eric Wampler? I notice he is no longer with KRS (tears). Even the mighty has fallen. So sad, too bad. Wish I had been there to help him out the door.
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