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Retirement Board – Oct 26, 2026

Agenda (PDF)
Where
Retirement Office conference room, 354 Merrimack Street, Entry C, Suite 302, Lawrence, MA 01843

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What's on the agenda

The meeting will cover a pension waiver request, a change to cash management, and the audit of the year-end 2025 financial statements. It will also cover three retirements and two accidental disability cases in executive session.

Agenda items

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  • Retirement: Annette Guzman, Superannuation
  • Retirement: Paula Thompson, Superannuation
  • Items on appeal
  • Make up payments and liability requests
  • New members and refunds
  • Monthly expenses, warrants
  • Retiree payroll
  • PRIT wire redemption, deposit
  • Bank statements, cashbooks
  • PRIT disclosures
  • PERAC memos

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Lawrence Retirement Board

354 Merrimack Street, Entry C, Suite 302 Lawrence, MA 01843

PHONE: (978) 620-3570 FAX: (978) 722-9490

CITY OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS E-Mail: Grizzo@cityoflawrence.com Website: Lawrenceretirement.net

RAMONA CEBALLOS, Chairman DIANE COCKROFT, Member ROBERT WILSON, Member SHERYL WRIGHT, Member PASCUAL RUIZ, Member

Please Post

The City of Lawrence Retirement Board will hold its regular monthly meeting in-person on Wednesday, October 28th, 2026, at 8:30 AM. We will be meeting in the Retirement Office conference room located at 354 Merrimack Street, Entry C, Suite 302, Lawrence, MA 01843.

Agenda

Executive Session:
  • Deborah Nickerson – Accidental Disability
  • Dennis O'Connell – Accidental Disability
New Business:
  • MACRS – Fall/Winter Conference
  • Year End 12/31/2025 Financial Statements – Final Audit – CBIZ
  • John Duxbury II – Pension waiver under 40B
  • Cash Management – Elimination of Payroll Account
  • COLA - Discussion
Retirements:
  • Carol Noonan - Superannuation
  • Annette Guzman - Superannuation
  • Paula Thompson - Superannuation
Tabled Items: none
MISC:
  • Items on appeal
  • Make up payments/liability requests
  • New members/refunds
  • Monthly expenses – Warrants
  • Retiree Payroll
  • Approval of Minutes,
  • PRIT wire redemption - deposit
  • Bank statements - cashbooks
  • PRIT disclosures
  • PERAC memo's

Gina Rizzo, Executive Director

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Terms used here

COLA
Cost-of-living adjustment: a raise in pay or a pension to keep up with rising prices.
executive session
A part of a public meeting closed to the public. State law allows it only for specific reasons, such as lawsuits, negotiations, or personnel matters.
PERAC
Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission, the state agency that oversees Massachusetts public retirement systems.
PRIT
Pension Reserves Investment Trust, the state-run investment fund that local retirement systems can invest in.
superannuation
Retirement based on age and years of service, rather than disability.
tabled
Set aside by a vote, to take up later. A tabled item comes back when the board votes to take it off the table.

All the terms in the glossary

Source

This meeting's agenda in the City of Lawrence's Agenda Center. First recorded by Lawrence Publick on .