2010 Employee Trustee Election

• 2010 Employee Trustee Election calendar
• Terms and conditions of office
• Nominating procedures
• Qualifications
• Petitions to run for Employee Trustee
• Biographical information form
• Employee Trustee Election Fact Sheet
• Employee Trustee ballots
• Board Candidate Packet
• General Memo 600 (election memo mailed to all IMRF employers)

Election Calendar

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Terms and conditions of office

In November, IMRF members will elect two Employee Trustees, each for a five-year term. The five-year terms of office will run from January 1, 2011, through December 31, 2015.

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Nominating procedures - petitions

Each page of the petition should contain the information listed at the top of the petition. The petition may be photocopied, and the pages may be circulated separately.

The petition must have at least 350 signatures of IMRF members who must have participated in IMRF during July 2010. This includes members on seasonal leave, but not retired members.

IMRF will verify signatures on the nominating petitions. Signatures of employees who do not participate in IMRF (such as teachers, police officers when there is a local police pension fund, or employees who work less than the hourly standard) will not be counted.

We encourage you to send petitions in as they are completed. You do not need to wait until you have 350+ signatures and submit them all at once. IMRF will verify each signature as it comes in and will advise the candidate that he or she does not need to submit any additional petitions once 350 valid signatures are received.

The petition explains the nominating procedures for Employee Trustee. Petitions will be accepted in the IMRF Oak Brook and Springfield offices between August 1, 2010, and the close of business at 4:30 P.M., September 15, 2010.

Mail, hand deliver, scan and email (sandyjoplin-legal@imrf.org) or FAX (630-368-5397) the completed petitions to IMRF, ATTN: Sandy Joplin, Legal Administrative Assistant.

If you scan the petitions and email them to IMRF or if you fax the petitions to IMRF, please call Sandy at  630-706-4217 to advise her that you are faxing or emailing the petitions.

Petitions postmarked on or before September 15, 2010, but received after that date will not be accepted.

Public Act 93-615, the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, includes prohibitions against political activity during work hours. It is our opinion that these prohibitions do not apply to elections for the IMRF Board of Trustees. Gathering IMRF member signatures and other activities of running for the IMRF Board are not included in prohibited political activity regulated by the Act.

On September 24, 2010, letters will be sent to all candidates who submitted nominating petitions informing them whether they will be on the ballot. Employee Trustee candidates will also be provided the names of the other candidates at that time.

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Qualifications

Any IMRF member who will have eight years of IMRF service credit as of December 31, 2010, is eligible to be nominated. If a member has accepted a refund of contributions (and has not reinstated the refund), the service is forfeited and does not count toward the eight years.

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Employee Trustee ballots

The Winter Fundamentals newsletter, which will contain candidates’ biographies, will be mailed with the ballots for the Employee Trustee election. The newsletters and ballots will be mailed to members’ homes on October 29, 2010. IMRF must receive the voted ballots by the close of business at 4:30 P.M., December 3, 2010.

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IMRF Board Candidate Packet

The IMRF Board Candidate Packet is designed to help you in your decision making process. If you are already a candidate, then it will help you better understand what being a trustee is all about.

Get the complete 2010 IMRF Board Candidate Packet

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