HomeMy WebLinkAbout97-60 - PERS Employer and Employee ContributionsRESOLUTION NO. 97-60
• A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH ELECTING TO BE SUBJECT TO PUBLIC
EMPLOYEES' MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL CARE ACT ONLY WITH
RESPECT TO MEMBERS OF A SPECIFIC EMPLOYEE
ORGANIZATION FIXING THE EMPLOYER'S CONTRIBUTION FOR
EMPLOYEES AND THE EMPLOYER'S CONTRIBUTION FOR
ANNUITANTS AT DIFFERENT AMOUNTS.
WHEREAS, (1) Government Code Section 22850.3 provides that a contracting
agency may elect upon proper application to participate under the Public Employees'
Medical and Hospital Care Act with respect to a recognized employee organization
only; and
WHEREAS, (2) Government Code Section 22754 (g) defines any Special District as
a contracting agency, and
WHEREAS, (3) Government Code Section 22857 provides that a contracting agency
may fix the amount of the employer's contribution for employees and the employer's
contribution for retired employees and survivors at different amounts provided that
the monthly contribution for retired employees and survivors shall be annually
increased by an amount not less than 5 percent of the monthly contribution for
employees, until such time as the amounts are equal; and
WHEREAS, (4) A Special District is hereby defined as a non - profit, self- governed
• public agency within the State of California, and comprised solely of public
employees performing a governmental rather than proprietary function, and
WHEREAS, (5) The City of Newport Beach, hereinafter referred to as Special
District is an entity meeting the above definition; and
WHEREAS, (6) Government Code Section 53208.5 (b) prohibits any member of a
legislative body whose service first commences on and after January 1, 1995, from
receiving health and welfare benefits greater than the most generous schedule of
benefits being received by any category of nonsafety employees; and
WHEREAS, (7) Government Code Section 53201 (c) (1) provides that a legislative
body that provided benefits to former elected members shall not provide benefits to
any person first elected to a term of office that begins on or after January 1, 1995,
unless the member participates on a self -pay basis or was fully vested prior to
January 1, 1995; and
WHEREAS, (8) The Special District desires to obtain for the members of the
Newport Beach City Council who are active and retired employees of the agency, the
benefit of the Act and to accept the liabilities and obligations of an employer under
the Act and Regulations; now therefore be it
RESOLVED, (a) That the Special District elect, and it does hereby elect, to be
subject to the provisions of the Act; and be it further
• RESOLVED, (b) That the employer's contribution for each employee shall be the
amount necessary to pay the full cost of his/her enrollment, including the enrollment
of his/her family members in a health benefits plan up to a maximum of $400.00 per
• month; and be it further
RESOLVED, (c) That the employer's contribution for each retired employee or
survivor shall be the amount necessary to pay the cost of his enrollment, including
the enrollment of his/her family members, in a health benefits plan up to a
maximum of $230.00 per month; and be it further
RESOLVED, (d) That the employer's contribution for each retired employee or
survivor shall be increased annually by 5% percent of the monthly contribution for
employees, until such time as the contributions are equal; and that the contributions
for active and retired employees and survivors shall be in addition to those amounts
contributed by the Special District for administrative fees and to the Contingency
Reserve Fund; and be it further
RESOLVED, (e) That the executive body appoint and direct, and it does hereby
appoint and direct, Administrative Services Department Director Dennis Danner to
file with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System a
verified copy of this Resolution, and to perform on behalf of said Special District all
functions required of it under the Act and Regulations of the Board of
Administration; and be it further
RESOLVED, (f) That coverage under the Act be effective on August 1, 1997.
ADOPTED at the regular meeting of the City Council at Newport Beach,
California, on this 14th day of July, 1997.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, NANCY C. LACEY, Acting City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 97 -60, was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 14th
day of July, 1997, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: O'Neil, Thomson, Edwards, Hedges, Glover, Noyes, and Mayor Debay
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 15th day of July, 1997.
(Seal)
A m4Cier k of the ity of
Newpo each, California