FPPTA Launches Blog: “Pension Talk” will be the new public forum Susan Marden ,
Public Relations Consultant
The FPPTA “Pension Talk” Blog will make its debut on our home page in the near future. We hope to use the blog to generate interactive discussion that will be enlightening and educational, especially for people visiting our web site looking for information about defined benefit public pension plans. Our 2011 focus on education makes the FPPTA Blog a must-have tool for media outreach and interactive member support. Our blog will include news stories from around the state, along with our responding commentary; op-ed columns that have been published in major daily papers, as well as new columns developed just for this post. It will offer tutorials and news about actuarial and financial trends, but primarily it will present opinions about news-making subjects like pension reform proposals, the elimination of DB plans, shifts toward defined contribution plans, employee participation, and collective bargaining demands or concessions. There will be a new blog entry posted each week. Bloggers writing under the FPPTA banner will include FPPTA executives and Board of Director members, professional accountants, actuarial and legal consultants, among others. Only FPPTA members or sponsors will be permitted to comment on the blog via e-mail posts during an initial trial period. All posts must be submitted by e-mail to www.fppta.org. They will be reviewed and posted within 24 hours. The FPPTA reserves the right to edit or reject posts because of inflammatory language, obscenity, or threats of any kind. We hope you will visit the site and check regularly for the “Pension Talk” Blog where an exchange of opinions and ideas can help further the cause of protecting defined benefit pubic pensions.
Faces of Florida...real people, real stories
Linda Loizzo Chief of Police, North Miami Beach, retired.
Emery Hampton Riviera Beach Water & Utilities Department
Susy Pita Key West Power Company, retired
Greg Warner Avon Park Police, retired
The FPPTA is gathering testimonials that portray the real-life experiences of Florida’s public employees. It is designed to reveal the real people behind the public discussion about public employee benefits, and to strengthen the case for defined benefit pensions. The campaign is called “Faces of Florida….real people, real stories”, and we plan to share it with legislators, the news media, elected officials and the public. The FPPTA will begin highlighting a new set of interviews in each edition of the E-newsletter. Faces of Florida: http://fppta.org/FOF/FOF.aspx
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