2 Broadcaster Press February 2, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com SDRS Administrator’s Pay Decision Won’t Shift To Legislature’s E-Board sent to pass it. Schoenbeck was one of the committee members missing. He referred to the PIERRE – The Legislasituation Wednesday as a ture’s joint committee on “fiasco.” retirement laws should He said the Executive continue to make the final Board deals each year with decision about pay for the the pay for the state investadministrator for the South ment officer. The board also Dakota Retirement System, sets the pay for the auditor a legislative panel has general. decided. SDRS board chairman Rep. Lee Schoenbeck, Elmer Brinkman of WaterR-Watertown, wanted to town testified Wedneday give the final responsibility against Schoenbeck’s plan, to the Legislature’s Execuas did Supreme Court Justice tive Board instead. But the House State Affairs Commit- Steve Zinter, who is the vice tee, whose members include chairman, and the longestserving trustee, Louise Loban some Executive Board members, killed his bill 12-1 of Volga. They spoke for the Wednesday. Three SDRS trustees testi- board’s unanimous position of opposition to Schoenfied against Schoenbeck’s bill. Their message was don’t beck’s plan, Brinkman said. “We acknowledge a mismess with a relationship take was made,” Brinkman that’s working well. said. Currently the trustees Zinter said it “only set the pay each year for the makes sense to me” that administrator. The retirethe retirement laws panel ment laws committee gets should oversee compensathe final say in those years tion because its members are when the trustees want to the most familiar with SDRS give a raise larger than the operations. standard for state govern“This isn’t broke. It ment employees. doesn’t need fixing. We’d ask The trustees and retireyou to maintain the status ment laws committee tried quo,” Zinter said. to do that in 2015. But the Loban, the regents’ emraise wasn’t on the comployees elected trustee since mittee’s agenda for its only 1990, said what happened meeting of the year Sept. last year was “a human error. 2 – two months after raises normally take effect in state It happens.” Jim Hansen of Pierre, government -- and only six who is the retirees’ elected of the 10 legislators on the trustee, also attended the committee attended the hearing. meeting. “I fully expected the When Sen. Bernie Huncircle-the-wagon approach,” hoff, D-Yankton, refused Schoenbeck said when his to go along with the larger time for rebuttal came raise, the committee didn’t have enough members preBY BOB MERCER State Capitol Bureau If you don’t get the word out about your business, no one else will!!! Go Ahead. . . WALK ALL OVER US! Are your floors damaged after years of wear & tear? 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