Retirement Board adopts administrator's contract

Retirement Board · Meeting of June 30, 2026

Clinton Retirement Board adopted a new contract for Administrator Patricia Hazel and bumped the administrative assistant up a pay step. Members, led by Chairman Joseph Casasanto with David Baird and Diane Magliozzi voting, approved a $501,247.25 warrant and a string of routine member transactions, including retirements for school instructional assistant Preston Cogan and animal control's Paul Wood. The board pushed back on unclear legal billing from attorney Sacco tied to MTRS litigation, with one member saying costs appeared to run well past an original "$3,000" estimate; the board asked for "a full accounting" before its July meeting.

Hazel told the board "I said that I will stay, if needed, to train this new person" as members began planning to advertise for a new administrative assistant by the end of July, ahead of the current assistant's expected September departure. James McNamara was absent.

In the full story:

• Financial Reports and Warrant
• Member Service Transactions
• Technology and Compliance Updates
• State Legislative and PRIM Developments
• PTG-Bay State Litigation and Vendor Relationship
• Administrator Contract and Assistant Pay Grade
• Sacco Legal Fee Dispute
• Administrative Assistant Succession Planning
• Adjournment
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 1,737 words

Source: the Retirement Board meeting of June 30, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.