Jerry Taylor
Retired Seattle Police and President of the RSPOA.Jerry founded LEOFF1.Net in 2000 and is the editor of the site.
Blogs by this Author
And Now The Senators
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/31/2012
As expected they managed to dredge up enough votes to pass the endorsement of HB2350 by the LEOFF 2 Board. Even with all the pressure applied some board members held fast in opposition. We have been...
LEAVE IT ALONE
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/29/2012
The following was in the January 28th legislative update from the Council of Fire Fighters."On Wednesday January 25th the LEOFF Plan 2 Board met. Following presentations from LEOFF Plan 2 board staff,...
Windfall Elimination Tax
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/28/2012
Be sure to check out our recent article on the Windfall Elimination Tax. The bill has been reintroduced in Congress. Just don't get too excited about it. It gets introduced every year and then noth...
Advocacy
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/27/2012
Well, HB2350 is out there. Currently it is in the House Ways and Means Committee and we hope that it does not get a hearing and dies. Obviously others think differently. So, people from both sides o...
Mystery & Secrecy
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/24/2012
Back on the 9th we had a meeting at the WACOPS office in Olympia. All the usual suspects were there. The point of that was to tell us that a draft merger bill was in existance and the bill would lik...
Act Now - Stop HB 2350
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/13/2012
HB 2350 was entered in the House on January 12th. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Pat Sullivan and Rep. Kevin Van De Wege. Rep. Sullivan is the House Majority Leader and Rep. Van De Wege is a LEOFF II ...
Another Merger Fight
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 01/10/2012
On Monday I attend the meeting with the WA Council of Fire Fighters, WACOPS, FOP and COMPAS on one side and the Retired Fire Fighters, Retired Seattle Police and WA Retired Officers on the other.It wa...
Is the Merger Proposal Back?
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 12/2/2011
The Governor proposed cuts in the LEOFF 2 pension contributions in an effort to save the state about $18 million -- their share of the LEOFF 2 contributions. Overall it would withold $90 million from...
The Merger Study - Is it any use?
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 10/14/2011
The second merger study meeting will be conducted on Monday, October 17th in the Bellevue City Hall. This meeting, in contrast with the first, appears to be much more carefully structured. I suspect...
Hiding in Privilege
- By Jerry Taylor
- Published 08/25/2011
So what gives with the LEOFF 2 Board?
They entered into a personal service contract with Robert Klausner, a Florida lawyer, to review HB 2097. While we can't find where the LEOFF 2 Board ever...


