Blair County Employees' Retirement Fund Shows Positive Projections for 2021 Plan Year

The Blair County Retirement Board, consisting of Commissioners Bruce Erb, Laura Burke, and Amy Webster along with Treasurer Jim Carothers and Controller A.C. Stickel, recently met with Actuary David Reid of CBIZ and Pat Wing of Marquette Associates, Inc. to discuss the Blair County Employee Retirement Fund’s actuarial review for the 2020 Plan Year.

The presentation on Oct. 6 included an overview of the actuarial valuation process, the primary plan provisions that the plan provides to county employees and the primary assumptions used in the valuation of the plan’s liabilities. The assumptions i...