{child_flags:featured}Governance now, benefits to summer task force
{child_byline}By Greg Sukiennik, Brattleboro Reformer{/child_byline}
MONTPELIER — In a shift in strategy, Vermont House Speaker Jill Krowinski has directed the House Government Operations Committee to focus on reforming state pension governance this session, and establish a task force that will come up with a plan to close the state’s multibillion-dollar unfunded pension liability.
The change marked a significant turn from a proposal that envisioned benefit reductions and higher employee costs as well as a change in governance.
