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UVI CELL Gauges Community Opinion on GERS about the Next Strategic Plan

UVI CELL’s, Wendy Coram-Vialet, CSAP Director & Community Engagement Manager, led a virtual town hall in hopes of involving citizens to hear feedback from the community to help construct the next strategic plan of the Government Employees Retirement as UVI was engaged by GERS to create it. She asked the participants on the zoom call a series of questions to hear how the community feels about GERS which will help UVI formulate the upcoming plan.      The goal of the meeting was to engage the community to learn how the public feels about what the public feels are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of GERS in a participatory community driven approach . UVI also played a role in creating the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan for GERS.   The biggest concerns from participants came after they were asked what frightens you about the GERS in which the responded, insolvencancy, the possibility of it collapsing, members lack of understanding about basic investment strategies, the im...