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Home My WebLink About1607 - ORDINANCES - 3/20/2002 ORDINANCE NO. 1607 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT BETWEEN THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND THE CITY ' COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That an amendment to the contract between the City Council of the City of Palm Springs and the Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System is hereby authorized, a copy of said amendment being attached hereto, marked Exhibit, and by such reference made a part hereof as though herein set out in full, as on file in the office of the City Clerk. SECTION 2. The Mayor of the City of Palm Springs is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to execute said amendment for and on behalf of said Agency. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty(30)days after passage. SECTION 4. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance, and to cause the same or a summary thereof or a display advertisement, duly prepared according to the law,to be published in accordance with law. ADOPTED this 20thday of march 2002. ' AYES: Members Mills, Oden, Reller—Spurgin and Mayor Kleiudienst NOES: None ABSENT: None ATTEST: C M INGS, LIFOR�IA CITY CLER l MAYOR r REVIEWED&APPROVED: I HEREBY CERTITY that the foregoing Ordinance 1607 was duley adopted by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs, California, in a meeting held on the 20th day of March, 2002; and that same was published the DESERT SUN, a newspaper of ge ral cir ati n r h29 2 02 Ann PATRICIA A. SANDERS City Clerk r t Ca1PERS California Public Employees' Retirement System ' 411*11. AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT Between the Board of Administration California Public Employees' Retirement System and the City Council City of Palm Springs The Board of Administration, California Public Employees' Retirement System, hereinafter referred to as Board, and the governing body of the above public agency, hereinafter referred to as Public Agency, having entered into a contract effective j January 1, 1957, and witnessed December 3, 1956, and as amended effective July 14, i 1965, January 14, 1973, January 1, 1975, September 5, 1976, July 10, 1977, October i 15, 1978, April 29, 1979, February 27, 1983, July 1, 1984, June 29, 1986, April 18, 1998, August 23, 1998, April 18, 1999 and August 19, 2001 which provides for i participation of Public Agency in said System, Board and Public Agency hereby agree t as follows: t I r A. Paragraphs 1 through 13 are hereby stricken from said contract as executed I effective August 19, 2001, and hereby replaced by the following paragraphs -numbered 1 through 13 inclusive: 1. All words and terms used herein which are defined in the Public Employees' Retirement Law shall have the meaning as defined therein unless otherwise specifically provided. "Normal retirement age" shall mean age 55 for local miscellaneous members, age 50 for local fire members and age 55 for local police members. 2. Public Agency shall participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System from and after January 1, 1957 making its employees as hereinafter provided, members of said System subject to all provisions of the Public Employees' Retirement Law except such as apply only on election of a contracting agency and are not provided for herein and to all j amendments to said Law hereafter enacted except those, which by express provisions thereof, apply only on the election of a contracting agency. I 3. Employees of Public Agency in the following classes shall become members of said Retirement System except such in each such class as � are excluded by law or this agreement: I I a. Local Fire Fighters (herein referred to as local safety members); I b. Local Police Officers (herein referred to as local safety members); I I C. Employees other than local safety members (herein referred to as local miscellaneous members). 4. In addition to the classes of employees excluded from membership by , said Retirement Law, the following classes of employees shall not become members of said Retirement System: NO ADDITIONAL EXCLUSIONS 5. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service for local miscellaneous members shall be determined in accordance with Section 21354.5 of said Retirement Law, subject to the reduction provided therein for service prior to December 31, 1974, termination of Social Security, for members whose service has been included in Federal Social Security (2.7% at age 55 Full and Modified). ' [Note that legislation has been proposed that could amend Government Code Section 21354.5 to make the 2.7% at 55 benefit formula applicable to both active members and inactive members who have not yet retired. If enacted, this amendment could have an effect on your agency's actuarial valuation and employer contribution rates in future years.] 6. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a local fire member shall be determined in accordance with Section 21362 of said Retirement Law (2% at age 50 Full). 1 I I I I I 7. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of I credited prior and current service as a local police member shall be determined in accordance with Section 21363.1 of said Retirement Law (3% at age 55 Full). j i 8. Public Agency elected and elects to be subject to the following optional I provisions: i a. Sections 21624, 21626 and 21628 (Post-Retirement Survivor Allowance). b. Section 21024 (Military Service Credit as Public Service), Statutes of 1974. C. Section 20042 (One-Year Final Compensation). d. Section 20965 (Credit for Unused Sick Leave). e. Section 21574 (Fourth Level of 1959 Survivor Benefits). 9. Public Agency, in accordance with Government Code Section 20790, ceased to be an "employer" for purposes of Section 20834 effective on September 5, 1976. Accumulated contributions of Public Agency shall be fixed and determined as provided in Government Code Section 20834, and accumulated contributions thereafter shall be held by the Board as provided in Government Code Section 20834. 10. Public Agency shall contribute to said Retirement System the contributions determined by actuarial valuations of prior and future service liability with respect to local miscellaneous members and local safety members of said Retirement System. 11. Public Agency shall also contribute to said Retirement System as follows: a. Contributions required per covered member on account of the 1959 Survivor Benefits provided under Section 21574 of said Retirement Law. (Subject to annual change.) In addition, all assets and liabilities of Public Agency and its employees shall be pooled in a single account, based on term insurance rates, for survivors of all local miscellaneous members and local safety members. b. A reasonable amount, as fixed by the Board, payable in one installment within 60 days of date of contract to cover the costs of administering said System as it affects the employees of Public Agency, not including the costs of special valuations or of'the periodic investigation and valuations required by law. C. A reasonable amount, as fixed by the Board, payable in one installment as the occasions arise, to cover the costs of special valuations on account of employees of Public Agency, and costs of the periodic investigation and valuations required by law. 12. Contributions required of Public Agency and its employees shall be subject to adjustment by Board on account of amendments to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, and on account of the experience under the Retirement System as determined by the periodic investigation and valuation required by said Retirement Law. 13. Contributions required of Public Agency and its employees shall be paid by Public Agency to the Retirement System within fifteen days after the end of the period to which said contributions refer or as may be prescribed by Board regulation. If more or less than the correct amount of contributions is paid for any period, proper adjustment shall be made in connection with subsequent remittances. Adjustments on account of errors in contributions required of any employee may be made by direct payments between the employee and the Board. B. This amendment shall be effective on the 3nae day of �af 2002 BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM CITY �O1F1,PALM SPRINGS � BY ( BYN —b.Kkc KEN H . MARZI N, CHIEF PRESIDING OFFICER ACT UARIA & EMPLOYER SERVIC S DIVISION PUBLIC E PLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM J Witness Date erk i I I I I AMENDMENT PERS-CONJ02A(Rev.8\96)