# Jacob Oliva Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Education; ex officio member of the ATRS Board of Trustees by virtue of office. Per BP1 Section XIII Oliva is also an ex officio member of the Board's Operations Committee. Sent designee Kelly Griffin to the April 7, 2025 ATRS Board meeting. Not documented as having attended any Board meeting personally in this batch and not documented in any Israel Bonds correspondence. ## Position on the Board Ex officio trustee per ATRS Rule 1-102(e). Operations Committee statutory ex officio member per BP1 Section XIII. The Operations Committee considers proposals for laws, rules, and policies, not investment proposals. Investment proposals fall within the Investment Committee's purview where the State Treasurer and State Bank Commissioner are the statutory ex officio members. Oliva's substantive committee jurisdiction does not include the Israel Bonds investment proposal. ## The Kelly Griffin designee pattern The 4/7 attendance roster lists "Kelly Griffin, designee for Sec. Jacob Oliva, Department of Education." Griffin attended the 4/7 meeting in Oliva's place. Whether the same designee pattern continued at the 6/2 meeting is not knowable from the packet (which is pre-meeting). See [[atrs-board-governance-structure]] for the broader designee pattern. ## Evidence > "Kelly Griffin, designee for Sec. Jacob Oliva, Department of Education" > 04-07-25 minutes embedded in 06-02-25_BOT_Packet.pdf, attendance roster ## Cross-References [[atrs-board-governance-structure]] concept page on the Board composition and the designee pattern [[atrs-bot-packets-7-3-25]] source page