Treasurer Josh Mandel has called out the state’s five pension funds for not sharing their expenditure data with his Ohiocheckbook.com website – and he singled out the largest pension fund. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler has reaction.
Mandel came to the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System board meeting in June to ask the state’s largest pension fund to share its spending data with the online checkbook project.
OPERS executive director Karen Carraher said the fund isn’t avoiding the issue.
“But as we’ve shared with the Treasurer, we do intend to evaluate it,” Carraher said. “Unfortunately, it’s not on the timeline that he would like to see it, because our current plans really have us focused on the successful implementation of our health care changes.”
Carraher says those health care changes are the largest project OPERS has ever undertaken.
And in the meantime, she says extensive information is on the OPERS website and is provided to the state and in its annual report.