CUCEA/CUCRA Joint Agenda

Spring Conference 2025

Council of UC Emeriti Associations (CUCEA) and
Council of UC Retiree Associations (CUCRA)

Wednesday, April 23 - Thursday, April 24, 2025

UC Riverside Alumni and Visitors Center

This is our third conference offered as a hybrid meeting. This will allow those who are able to meet in-person while allowing meaningfully involvement of others through Zoom. We hope this will enable wide participation.

Shuttles will be provided from The Mission Inn.
For anyone driving to campus, please see important parking notes on the UCR Center Meeting website:
CUCRA / CUCEA 2025 | UCR Retirement Center

Joint Meeting Agenda – April 23 -- 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Zoom link will be provided to registrants in advance of the meeting

10:30
Check in available at Alumni and Visitor Center

11:00
Lunch available for in-person attendees.

12:00
Welcome and introductions: Joel Dimsdale, Chair, CUCEA

Campus Introductions:
Raymond "Rusty" Russell, UCREA Co-President
Darleen Demason, UCREA Co-President
Andy Plumley, UCRRA President

Introductions of Attendees

12:30
Welcome by Chancellor Kim Wilcox, UC Riverside

1:00
A discussion of the impact of wildfires on the economics of living in California

David Jones, Director, Climate Risk Initiative, Berkeley Center for Law Energy and the Environment, former California Insurance Commissioner

Nancy Wallace, Professor and Chair Real Estate Group, Berkeley Haas School of Business

1:30
Break (Post break session coordinator: Susan Abeles, Chair, CUCRA)

1:45
Approval of Minutes – Joint Meeting of October 29, 2024: Mary Gauvain, CUCEA Secretary

1:50
Overview of issues raised in Joint Benefits Commitee Report: Roger Anderson, JBC Chair

2:05
Systemwide Human Resources Current Issues, including: response to JBC report, Return to Active Duty (RTAD) policy changes, ongoing health and retirement benefit RFP’s , etc.

Cheryl Lloyd, UC Vice President for Human Resources assisted by Jay Henderson, Maynard Jenkins, Susan Pon-Gee and introducing Bill Perez, recently appointed Executive Director of RASC.

3:30
Hyun Swanson, Executive Director, UC Retirement Program Services

Update on “Getting Your Affairs in Order”

3:35
Open discussion: other issues of interest to campus associations

3:40
CUCRA Travel Program Update: Frank Trueba

3:55
Fall 2025 Meeting, October 29-30th 2025: - UC San Francisco – E. Eastman

4:00
Adjourn

For in-person attendees, following the joint meeting there are optional tours of UCR facilities in addition to a reception and dinner at the UCR Culver Center of The Arts in downtown Riverside. See the meeting registration site: CUCRA / CUCEA 2025 | UCR Retirement Center

Download/View a PDF version of the CUCRA Agenda