Weekly Reflection: Two

Going into this second week I felt a lot more confident. I learned a lot of new things, and I also had a solid understanding of last week's activities, making me feel more comfortable doing work on my own this week. I have continued to do things like balancing accounts, receipts, reconciliation, and tailings. This week though I have done two completely new activities. One new project was working with the OBRA retirement funds. This project so far has consisted of researching people who have previously worked for the City of Easthampton and have retired. They have a retirement account with OBRA and they have money in these accounts that has been sitting there for a while that needs to be taken out. I have been in contact with Mr. Turner from Nationwide who is helping me work on this project. I need to check that all the people have retired on his list, get the treasurer to sign off that they have retired and then Nationwide can contact the people to close their accounts. The second event that I attended, which was by far the coolest, was a trip to the State House in Boston, Massachusetts. On this trip I had the chance to meet with the legislator and senator that represent the region in which Easthampton is located. In the morning I listened to some speakers of the house speak about what is currently going on with our budget and income. One thing that I thought was really neat was that when we talked with other treasurers from other towns at this event, I actually knew what they were talking about and what “treasurer terms” they were using. Lastly, I had a tour around the State House. I learned about everything from what the art work represented on the walls, to how much the roof cost to coat in gold, to what the cod fish represented in the house of senate. I learned a lot on this trip and it was also really exciting. I had a great second week so far and I think have been reaching all my goals and meeting a lot of interesting people in the process.