July 2016 Luncheon Meeting

Public Employee Retirement Benefits: Will They Eat the State of California, or Just Parts of It?

Speaker: Chuck Reed, former mayor of San Jose

Meeting Description

Bad financial planning practices in California have created an enormous debt of retirement obligations. Paying down those obligations is a painful task that is resulting in service cuts and tax increases around the state. The next recession will drive weaker jurisdictions into service delivery insolvency and bankruptcy as they struggle to pay ever increasing retirement costs with shrinking revenues. What can we do about it?

1.5 hours CE has been granted for this session by the CFP Board.

Speaker Biography

Chuck Reed was Mayor of San Jose from 2007 to 2014, a member of the City Council from 2000 to 2006, and a city and county Planning Commissioner for 14 years before being elected to office. Before taking office as Mayor of the tenth largest city in the country, Chuck Reed was a lawyer in private practice in San Jose. He is now a member of the San Jose law firm of Hopkins & Carley.

Mr. Reed has been recognized as a national leader on pension reform by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, other national media, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities. The story of his work in San Jose has been noted in books (Boomerang, Michael Lewis; Fate of the States, Meredith Whitney) and he has been a frequent speaker on pension reform at conferences around the country.

Pricing and Registration

Advanced pricing is available through July 4th: FPA Members and First Time Visitors: $40 Non-Members: $60

After July 4th:
All Members and Non-members: $60

Online Registration is open through Monday, July 4th. At-the-door registration is available but limited, so pre-registration is strongly encouraged.

No refunds after 12:00 pm Tuesday, July 5th.