. >> commissioner halfron to a special board meeting. madam secretary if you could open the phone lines for public comment, please. >> thank you. reminder to callers to press star 3 to be added to the queue. are there callers on the line? >> we have one caller on the line. >> thank you. caller, please state your name. two minutes begins when you speak. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i am active member with local 21 and vice chair of retirement oversight. i was surprised to hear that there is potential impact to the employee contribution rate after cost sharing. i thought i followed that correctly. i am trying to monitor this and haven't seen anything in the staff reports. i know that is something our members would you be interested to know about. i fully understand this is a complex and important decision about setting the appropriate discount rate but it would be helpful for active members to understand better the impacts on the employee contribution rate and retired members to impact the supplemental cola. i would request in the fut

. >> commissioner halfron to a special board meeting. madam secretary if you could open the phone lines for public comment, please. >> thank you. reminder to callers to press star 3 to be added to the queue. are there callers on the line? >> we have one caller on the line. >> thank you. caller, please state your name. two minutes begins when you speak. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i am active member with local 21 and vice chair of retirement oversight. i was surprised to hear that there is potential impact to the employee contribution rate after cost sharing. i thought i followed that correctly. i am trying to monitor this and haven't seen anything in the staff reports. i know that is something our members would you be interested to know about. i fully understand this is a complex and important decision about setting the appropriate discount rate but it would be helpful for active members to understand better the impacts on the employee contribution rate and retired members to impact the supplemental cola. i would request in the fut