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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Business Managers, Superintendents and Benefits Administrators:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">Currently OEBB's plan year runs from October 1 - September 30, with Open Enrollment occurring August 15 - September 15 for most participating entities. Over the past several years, some entities have expressed
an interest in moving to a calendar year (January 1 through December 31) plan year. Before staff can prepare a proposal and/or recommendation for the Board to consider, we want to make sure we gather input from all of the OEBB-participating entities.
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We have identified a number of impacts we know need to be taken into consideration as OEBB and entities determine whether changing the plan year is a good idea. Here is a link to a document outlining those impacts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#333333"><a href="www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/entity/docs/2014/PlanYrConsiderations.pdf">www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/entity/docs/2014/PlanYrConsiderations.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Your thoughts, input and opinions are very important to OEBB. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">Please take a few moments<b> </b>
to review this<b> </b>document and then complete this short online survey to provide your feedback<b>
</b></span><b><span style="color:red">before December 15, 2014</span></b><span style="color:#333333">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PlanYr">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PlanYr</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#333333">Timely responses will be crucial in creating a proposal that accurately represents all entities’ interests,
</span></b><span style="color:#333333">and the more detailed you can be in your responses, the better.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">Thank you for your time and valuable opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:navy">Denise L. Hall<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Denise L. Hall, Deputy Administrator</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Oregon Educators Benefit Board</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OEBB"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">http://egov.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:red">OEBB encourages all members to stay healthy and be happy!!!! Pass it on.....
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/pages/welllinks.aspx"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#9933FF">http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/pages/welllinks.aspx</span></b></a><span style="color:#9933FF"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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