2025 Annual Meeting Registration
PERI’S State Annual Meeting
Monday, September 29, 2025
Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center ● 100 Green Meadow Dr S ● Lewis Center, OH 43035
Registration will be from 8:30am – 9:30 a.m.
You are invited to join us for the PERI State Annual Meeting which will be held at The Nationwide Hotel and Conference Center in Lewis Center, OH. Monday, September 29th. The hotel is conveniently located just minutes north of Interstate 270 and State Route 23. Features include free parking, a covered drop-off area outside the lobby, and sleeping rooms, if needed. Please provide them with the group code of 407131 when making a reservation by calling (614) 880-4300 or book online. Registration will be from 8:30 am to 9:30 am. Coffee, tea and pastry will be available during that time.
We will not be doing seat/table assignments this year. We highly recommend you arrive early to secure your preferred seat location. Coffee and pastries will be on the pathway to the ballroom, where you can enter. The event will start promptly at 9:30 a.m.
This year we are doing something different and will not have educational breakout sessions, but will have OPERS Executive Director, Karen Carraher and her team present the overview and education part of OPERS. We will have a legislative education presentation with outgoing Board Chair, Richard Ross, and Legislative Representative, Mara White. Our afternoon guest speakers for the event will be Ohio Retirement Study Council Vice Chair Senator Mark Romanchuk and Rep Phil Plummer. After lunch, we will have the PERI business meeting where you will hear brief remarks from outgoing PERI Chairman, Richard Ross, PERI Executive Director, Lezlie Garcia, outgoing PERI Treasurer John DiPietro and a legislative report from PERI Legislative Representative, Mara White. After the meeting, we will swear in the new PERI Executive Board. The meeting will conclude with special door prize drawings.
Come with great expectations for a rewarding time of learning and sharing with your fellow PERI retirees.
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We monitor every piece of legislation that is introduced that could adversely affect our members. Once PERI has established a position on an important issue, we lobby the appropriate agency or board and if necessary the Ohio General Assembly. PERI has worked for years on the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset and all our lobbying and collaberation finally paid off with the Social Security Fairness Act that passed in January of 2025.
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