Arkansas State Employees Association Inc

“The association is made up of members that are state employees.”

“The members vote to elect new board members.”

“The 990 will be reviewed and signed by john bridges, executive director. John will then present the 990 to the executive committee for review prior to filing with the irs.”

“Board members and employees are required to report annually any changes in activities that could cause a conflict of interest.”

“The executive committee is in charge of establishing the executive director's salary, and is subject to approval from the entire board of directors.”

“Asea's governing documents, conflict of interest statement, 990 and financial statements will be made available to the public upon request at their office located in little rock, arkansas.”

“The arkansas state employees association (asea) consists of approximately 12,500 active members and an additional 2,000 retired and associate members. Our 2020 highlights included: protecting state retiree benefits: asea was successful in working with elected officials and state administration in reversing decisions to eliminate retirees pharmacy benefit plan and reduce the annual cost of living adjustment granted to retires pension. As the result of these actions asea has formally set up the retirees benefit committee comprised a volunteer retirees and add-ed two additional retiree at large board positions. Scholarship awards: we awarded seventeen one thousand dollar in-state scholarships. This can be attributed to our decision to hold our annual conference virtually going forward. Board retreat: last winter asea hosted a retreat for its board members to focus on creating and preparing a legislative retirement package to present to the board of the arkansas public employ-ees retirement system. In 2018 there was legislation introduced intended to improve the financial stability of the system that would lessen the future benefit of active employees and reduce the cur-rent benefit for retirees. Asea worked with the other groups in the apers system and was suc-cessful in holding off the introduced legislation. Our board, understanding the importance of maintaining a healthy retirement system presented a package of design benefit changes that they felt would improve the system and could be absorbed by the members without negative affects. This package was adopted by the apers board and is currently being introduced in this years general assembly.”