One of our local state representatives, Jim Riesberg, who represents District 50 will have a community forum on Retirement and Aging issues on Saturday, March 18 2006

Community Forum on Retirement and Aging Issues

Saturday, March 18, 2006

9-10:30 am

Location: Garden Square at Westlake, 3151 20th Street, Greeley

Topics discussed at this forum will include PERA and the Senior Homestead Exemption, in addition to other retirement and aging issues.

Unfortunately, being a Saturday morning when the weather may actually be nice, I probably won’t attend.

For those of you (who may be like me) that aren’t in the know here is some background on the issues.

From the Boulder County Website

Colorado’s Senior Homestead Exemption Program is designed to provide property tax relief for seniors who have owned and lived in their homes for ten years. Due to the current State budget crisis, funding for this program has been suspended for 2003 through 2006. Qualifying seniors will not receive property tax relief from this program in those years. We do encourage eligible seniors to apply for the program.

PERA is the Public Employees Retirement Association

PERA provides retirement and other benefits to the employees of more than 390 government agencies and public entities in the state of Colorado. PERA is the 23rd largest public pension plan in the United States. (Ranking provided by Pension and Investments Magazine, reported in January 2003.)

Unfortunately I had to Google this information up for myself. Would seem like representative Riesberg’s site could offer more information about some of the issues… we’ll get back to that later.