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HomeMy WebLinkAbout71.194 ORDINANCE NO. 71-1 94 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA AND THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM The City Council of the City of Saratoga does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That an amendment to the contract between the City Council of the City of Saratoga and the Board of Administration, 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. SECTION 2. The Mayor of the City Council of the City of Saratoga is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to execute said amendment for and on behalf of said Agency. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty days after the date of its adoption, and prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof shall be published a summary of this Ordinance at least once in the Saratoga News, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Saratoga and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect. Adopted and approved this 10th day of August ,1999, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Baker, Streit, Mehaffey, Vice Mayor Bogosian NOES: None ABSENT: Mayor Shaw (in memoriam) ~e M~ay'or~ ATTEST: City Oerk CalPERS EXHIBIT California Public Employees' Retirement System AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT Between the Board of Administration California Public Employees' Retirement System and the City Council City of Saratoga 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 June 1, 1961, and witnessed April 27, 1961, and as amended effective April 6, 1973, April 1, 1977, and May 1, 1978 which provides for participation of Public Agency in said System, Board and Public Agency hereby agree as follows: A. Paragraphs I through 9 are hereby stricken from said contract as executed effective May 1, 1978, and hereby replaced, by the following paragraphs numbered I through 12 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. 2. Public Agency shall participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System from and after June 1, 1961 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 amendments to said Law hereafter enacted except those, which by express provisions thereof, apply only on the election of a contracting agency. 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: a. 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: a. EXCLUDE PERSONS HIRED ON OR AFTER APRIL 6, 1973 WHO ARE EMPLOYED ON A TEMPORARY AND/OR SEASONAL BASIS IF IT IS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT AT TIME OF HIRE THAT SAID EMPLOYMENT NOT EXCEED SlX MONTHS; AND b. SAFETY EMPLOYEES. 5. Prior to January 1, 1975, those members who were hired by Public Agency on a temporary and/or seasonal basis not to exceed 6 months were excluded from PERS membership by contract. Government Code Section 20305 supersedes this contract provision by providing that any such temporary and/or seasonal employees are excluded, from PERS membership subsequent to January 1, 1975. 6. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for local miscellaneous members for each year of credited prior and current service shall be determined in accordance with Section 21354 of said Retirement Law, subject to the reduction provided therein for service .prior to March 31, 1978, termination of Social Security, for members whose service has been included in Federal Social Security (2% at age 55 Full and Modified). 7. Public Agency elected and elects to be subject to the following optional provisions: a. Section 20042 (One-Year Final Compensation). b. Section 20965 (Credit for Unused Sick Leave). c. Section 21624 and 21626 (Post-Retirement Survivor Allowance). d. Sections 21571 (Basic level of 1959 Survivor Benefits). PLEASE DO NOT S GN "EXHIBIT 0 IL¥ 8. Public Agency, in accordance with Government Code Section 20790, ceased to be an "employer" for purposes of Section 20834 effective on April 1, 1977. 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. 9. 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 of said Retirement System. 10. Public Agency shall also contribute to said Retirement System as follows: a. 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. b. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. This amendment shall b~fective on the ~ day of .19 B. BOARD OF ADMINIST. _ .,..~,%.... CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' ~REMENT SYSTEM CI~ OF SA~TOGA ,~ BY ' BY KENNETH W. M~ION, CHIEF PRESIDING OF~ ACTUARIAL &~PLOYER SERVICES DIVISION ~ Witne~ A,est: Clerk AMENDMENT PERS-CON-702A (Rev. 8\96)