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DATE: December 14, 2016 Consent Calendar
SUBJECT: DELEGATE AUTHORITY TO THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE
DECISIONS RELATING TO DISABILITY RETIREMENT OF LOCAL
SAFETY MEMBERS.
FROM: David H. Ready, City Manager
BY: Department of Human Resources
SUMMARY:
The City Council delegated responsibility of determining and certifying applications and
requests relating to disability retirement of local safety members to the City Manager on
January 9, 1974, by Resolution No. 10959. CalPERS has requested an updated
resolution signed by the Mayor of the City of Palm Springs.
RECOMMENDATION:
1 . Adopt Resolution No. , "A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, DELEGATING THE CITY
MANAGER AUTHORITY TO MAKE CERTAIN DETERMINATIONS,
CERTIFICATIONS, APPLICATIONS AND REQUESTS RELATING TO DISABILITY
RETIREMENT OF LOCAL SAFETY MEMBERS.
2. Authorize the Mayor to sign the resolution.
STAFF ANALYSIS:
In accordance with Section 21023.6 of the Government Code, the governing body of an
agency or an official delegated by the governing agency, must determine whether a
safety member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS) is
disabled and must be retired when the conditions causing his or her disability become
permanent and stationary.
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City Council Staff Report
December 14, 2016 - Page 2
Delegating authority to the City Manager regarding industrial disability retirement
Pursuant to a change in CalPERS rules, Resolution No. 10959, adopted on the January
9, 1974, delegating authority to make determinations, certifications, applications, and
requests relating to disability retirement of local safety members is no longer valid and
needs to be updated and executed by the Mayor of the City of Palm Springs.
Kim Hardcastle ames Thompson
Human Resources Manager Chief of Staff/City Clerk
David H. Ready, E
City Manager
Attachment: Proposed Resolution
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, DELEGATING THE CITY
MANAGER AUTHORITY TO MAKE CERTAIN
DETERMINATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS, APPLICATIONS,
AND REQUESTS RELATING TO DISABILITY RETIREMENT
OF LOCAL SAFETY MEMBERS.
WHEREAS, the City of Palm Springs, hereinafter referred to the "City", is a
contracting agency of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, hereinafter
sometimes referred as "CaIPERS"; and
WHEREAS, the City has in its employ certain police officers and firefighters who
are classified as local safety members within the meaning of the California Public
Employees' Retirement Law; and
WHEREAS, the California Public Employees Retirement Law requires that the
City determine whether any of its local safety member employees are disabled within
the meaning of said Law, and, in the event such disability be found, whether the origin
of such disability industrial within the meaning of the Law; and
WHEREAS, such determination may lawfully be delegated to the City Manager;
and
WHEREAS, such determinations in relation to employees of the City other than
local safety member employees, are duly delegated to the City Manager;
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That the City Manager be delegated the authority to make determinations
pursuant to Section 21023.6 of the Government Code, on behalf of the
City, of disability and as to whether any such disability is industrial, and to
certify such determinations and all other necessary information relating to
such determinations to CaIPERS.
Section 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to make applications to
CaIPERS on behalf of the City for disability retirement of employees
Resolution No.
Page 2
classified as local safety members, and to initiate request for
reinstatement of such employees who have been retired for disability.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED THIS 14TH DAY OF DECEMBER 2016.
Robert Moon, Mayor
ATTEST:
James Thompson, City Clerk
CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS )
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Resolution No. is a full, true and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a
adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on this 14th
day of December 2016, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
James Thompson, City Clerk
City of Palm Springs, California