Wisconsin. Department of Employee Trust Funds: Secretary's Office Correspondence, 1968-2007

Container Title
2008/053
Part 3 (2008/053): Additions, 1969-2002
Physical Description: 6.2 cubic feet (6 records center cartons and 1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence and administrative files of secretaries Gary Gates and Eric Stanchfield and Assistant Secretary David Mills, 1969-2002. Half of the accession consists of controlled and general correspondence of the three previously mentioned administrators. The other half consists of records, 1987-1997, of Wisconsin Retired Teachers Association v. ETF Board, a prolonged lawsuit that concerned a special performance dividend (SIPD) paid to pre-1974 Wisconsin retirees. Other parties to the suit were the Wisconsin Engineers Association and the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC). These papers include briefs and pleadings, correspondence, decisions, depositions, interrogatories, and settlement papers for litigation pursued through the Wisconsin court system to the Supreme Court. Despite the quantity of legal documentation, there are no transcriptions of court proceedings. The Gates correspondence includes information requests as well as subject files on topics such as collective bargaining, legislation, and the Investment Board. Stanchfield's informational requests are titled controlled correspondence; these files have been weeded to removed letters about individual's retirement annuities that are confidential, but because some may have been overlooked, the accession should be regarded as confidential. Additional correspondence, labeled as "correspondence from," generally deals with internal administration. A separate file concerns internal and Legislative Audit Bureau audits of the department.
WRTA (Wisconsin Retired Teachers Association) case records
Box   1
Folder   1-14
Correspondence, 1987-1997
Circuit Court
Box   1
Folder   15-18
Briefs and pleadings
Box   1
Folder   19-20
Complaint and summons
Box   1
Folder   21
Consolidation
Box   1
Folder   22
Decisions
Box   1
Folder   23
Depositions
Box   1
Folder   23-24
Gates, Gary, 1989-1990
Box   1
Folder   25
Jones, Norman
Box   1
Folder   26
Mills, David, 1989
Box   1
Folder   27
Willett, Robert, 1989
Interrogatories
Box   1
Folder   28
Defendants
Box   2
Folder   1
Plaintiffs
Box   3
Folder   14
Judge Bartell correspondence
Box   2
Folder   2-3
Judgment and summary judgment
Box   2
Folder   4
Reconsideration
Box   2
Folder   5-6
Remedies and findings of fact
Box   2
Folder   7-8
Stipulations
Court of Appeals
Box   2
Folder   19
Amicus brief
Box   2
Folder   10
Appeal
Box   2
Folder   11-12
Appendices
Box   2
Folder   13
Number not used
Box   2
Folder   14-21
Briefs
Box   2
Folder   22-24
Combined briefs
Box   2
Folder   25
Decision
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Box   2
Folder   26
Amicus briefs
Box   2
Folder   27-28
Appeal
Box   3
Folder   1-3
Briefs
Box   3
Folder   4
Decision
Box   3
Folder   5
ETF (Employee Trust Funds) briefs
Box   3
Folder   6
Briefs
Box   3
Folder   7
Bypass motions
Box   3
Folder   8-9
Engineers
Box   3
Folder   10
Interrogatories
Box   3
Folder   11
Motions
Box   3
Folder   12
Open records request inventory, 2000
Box   3
Folder   13
Settlement pleadings
Box   3
Folder   15-19
Settlement, affidavits, briefs, drafts, appendices
Box   3
Folder   20-21
Working papers
Correspondence
Gates, Gary
Box   3
Folder   22
General, miscellany, 1979-1981
Box   3
Folder   23
80-85% limitation, 1967-1982
Box   3
Folder   24
Budget, 1969-1986
Box   3
Folder   25-26
Collective bargaining, 1976-1987
Box   3
Folder   27
Earnings
Box   3
Folder   28
Elected officials, 1976-1989
Box   3
Folder   29
"Eligible for participation," 1978-1990
Box   3
Folder   30
"Employer pickup," 1972-1987
Box   3
Folder   31
Executive salary group, 1976-1978
Box   3
Folder   32
FAIR (Formula Annual Indexed Retirement) concept, 1984-1987
Information requests
Box   3
Folder   33-35
1981-1988
Box   4
Folder   1-3
1988-1992
Box   4
Folder   4-5
Investment Board, 1982-1991
Box   4
Folder   6
Legal cases, 1985-1972
Box   4
Folder   7
Legislation, 1981-1991
Box   4
Folder   8
Open records requests, 1992-1993
Box   4
Folder   9
Open records requests (Barratt-Kessler)
Box   4
Folder   10
Protective occupations, 1978-1991
Box   4
Folder   11
Special performance dividend, 1990-1999
Box   4
Folder   12
Statutory revisions, 1979-1987
Box   4
Folder   13
WRS (Wisconsin Retirement System) Study Committee, 1988-1989
Box   4
Folder   14
WRTA, 1976-1988
Box   4
Folder   15
Unlabeled folder
Box   4
Folder   16
Correspondence and memoranda from, 1991-1992
Mills, David, correspondence from
Box   4
Folder   17-24
1990-1994
Box   5
Folder   1-4
1994 (continued)-1997
Stanchfield, Eric O.
Box   5
Folder   5-21
Controlled correspondence (weeded), 1995-1998
Box   6
Folder   1-8
Letters and memoranda from, 1993-1995
Box   6
Folder   9-18
Internal and LAB (Legislative Audit Bureau) correspondence, 1988-1996
Miscellaneous files
Box   6
Folder   19
ETF, 1997
Box   6
Folder   20
Gary Gates paper, 1997
Box   7
Folder   1
Miscellaneous forms
Box   7
Folder   2
NASRA (National Association of State Retirement Administrators), roll call regarding Wisconsin, 2001-2002
Box   7
Folder   3-4
SWIB directors' summit, 2002
Box   7
Folder   5
Wisconsin Coalition of Annuitants, speech, 2002
Box   7
Folder   6
Miscellany