File #: 100117    Version: Name: Reducing Employer Retirement Benefit Costs
Type: Charter Amendment Status: Filed
Introduced: 1/28/2010 In control: Rules Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/5/2010
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Charter Amendment (Third Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco by amending Sections A8.409-5, A8.432, A8.506, A8.506-2, A8.506-3, and A8.510, and by adding Sections A8.432-1, A8.600 to A8.600-14, A8.601 to A8.601-16 and A8.602 to A8.602-16, to: (1) restrict the City and County from agreeing to pay required employee contributions to the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System ("SFERS") or the California Public Employees' Retirement System ("CalPERS") for certain employees after June 8, 2010; (2) authorize the City and County to offer a one-time seven percent (7%) wage increase to certain employees as acknowledgement that the City and County will no longer pay the required seven and one-half percent (7.5%) employee contribution to SFERS or the required employee contribution to CalPERS afforded in their most recent collectively bargained agreement, provided that no such increase shall become effective before July 1, 2011; (3) require voter approval before the City and County can pay, for up to a two-year period, required employee contributions to SFERS or CalPERS for certain employees after June 8, 2010; (4) define "Participating Employers" for the Retiree Health Care Trust Fund to include the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, to the extent it participates in the City and County's Health Service System and upon resolution by its governing board; (5) require the difference between the City and County's contribution to the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System ("SFERS") set by the Retirement Board each year and the employer normal cost rate to be deposited into the Retiree Health Care Trust Fund; (6) require the difference between the "Participating Employers'" contribution to SFERS set by the Retirement Board each year and the employer normal cost rate to be deposited into the Retiree Health Care Trust Fund only upon resolution by the governing boards of the respective "Participating Employers" approving said deposits; (7) establish an employee contribution rate of nine percent for all employees hired on and after July 1, 2010 who become members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System ("CalPERS"); (8) require all contracts with CalPERS for miscellaneous safety persons hired on and after July 1, 2010 to include a two-year formula for the calculation of final compensation to the fullest extent possible; (9) require all contracts with CalPERS for sheriff's department employees and housing authority police hired on and after July 1, 2010 to include a three-year formula for the calculation of final compensation to the fullest extent possible; (10) require all contracts and contract amendments on and after July 1, 2010 for personnel of the sheriff's department and housing authority police who are members of CalPERS to be cost-neutral to the City and County; (11) create a new retirement plan for miscellaneous officers and employees hired on and after July 1, 2010 that modifies the average final compensation calculation from a one-year formula to a two-year formula; and (12) create new retirement plans for safety members hired on and after July 1, 2010 that increase required employee retirement contributions to nine percent and modify the average final compensation calculation from a one-year formula to a two-year formula.
Sponsors: Eric Mar, David Campos
Attachments: 1. Leg_Ver1, 2. Commi_Packet_020410, 3. Leg_Ver2, 4. Leg_Ver3
Legislation Details
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