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Review the following letter sent to CLEA Directors and  www.CLEA.org to familiarize yourself with these important Plan changes. 

To: CLEA Directors

From: Dave Boffi, President

Date: March 21, 2012

As many of you are aware, on March 9, 2012, the full Board of Directors of CLEA voted to accept a $5.00 rate increase effective May 1, 2012 and accepted numerous LTD Plan benefit enhancements approved by the Executive Board (visit www.CLEA.org to review your new Benefits). This is the first rate increase in over 15 years and was determined to be a fiscally responsible step, now and into the future, for the health of the Plan and maintenance of a healthy Plan for the long term.

The Executive Board wants to impress on all Plan Participants that CLEA is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive LTD Plan available statewide to law enforcement personnel. Granted, you have a choice in your LTD coverage, but CLEA provides the most coverage when it is needed by your disabled members. Since 1985, CLEA has paid over $76 million in benefits and provides greater benefits than the PORAC I&B Trust LTD Plans!

We have attached an update for you regarding the pending lawsuit against the PORAC I&B Trust and/or Myers Stevens Toohey & Co.  (View Summary) We understand that some of you may be contacted by representatives of the PORAC I&B Trust who may attempt to mischaracterize the CLEA LTD Plan, this rate increase, or the reduced benefit levels provided under the PORAC I&B Trust Plan. I ask you to allow members of the CLEA Executive Board and/or our administrators to address any LTD benefit comparison before you consider any such comments. Most of you have been in CLEA for many years and we believe you owe it to your members to understand all the facts in any comparisons of the plans. For over 26 years CLEA has been the #1 choice based on its benefits and exemplary service but clearly politics have come into play and in some cases to the detriment of some Participants, through loss of comprehensive benefits, when they adopt the PORAC I&B Trust LTD Plan. These losses of benefits include:

• significantly lower dollar protection for disability and death,
• lower percentage of salary protection,
• no "LTC Plus" benefit,
• lower and restricted death benefits,
• highly restrictive musculoskeletal and connective tissue coverage,
• highly restrictive rehabilitation requirements,
• lower minimum monthly benefits,
• loss of return to work incentive benefits and
• loss of group representation.

In most every case where CLEA representatives have had the opportunity to provide comparison points to the PORAC I&B presentation, CLEA has retained its participating groups and obtained new PORAC I&B groups. Please do your members a true "economic favor" and get all the facts since there are tremendous differences between the LTD benefit Plans and they deserve full and transparent disclosure.

Thank you for your continued support and participation.

Sincerely,

Dave Boffi, President - (707) 799-3968

Kevin Mickelson, VP North - (916) 997-3044

Darin Ryburn, VP South - (818) 929-6584

Joe Chirillo, CFO - (310) 497-5182

Mario Yagoda, Secretary - (818) 262-6661

Jerry Hall, Chairman of the Board - (408) 460-1375

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It seems like its human nature to complain. Although we are educated human beings, many people like to complain. You know that family member, friend, co-worker or partner who always manages to see their glass half empty instead of half full. The people who seem to spread this negativity like a contagious disease. Now I will take some ownership and admit that I have been guilty of complaining from time to time, but let's try to keep things in perspective. Webster's defines perspective as looking through, or seeing clearly. I would like to share my perspective based on a recent experience.

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