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Adopt resolution for paying and reporting the value of the Employer Paid Member Contributions to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System for sworn Fire Safety Managers represented by the Management Association;
DISCUSSION
City management representatives and representatives of the Long Beach Management Association (LBMA) and the Long Beach Association of Confidential Employees (LBACE) have had a number of meet and confer sessions regarding changes in wages, hours and working conditions. Meetings have been concluded and Memoranda of Understandings (MOUs) have been jointly signed by City representatives and representatives of the named employee organizations. The MOUs for the LBMA and the LBACE are for the period of October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011.
The major provisions of the MOUs with the LBMA and the LBACE are: no cost-of-living increases over the term of the agreement; agreement to full CalPERS pick-up for new City employees; agreement to a lower retirement formula of 2.0% at 60; and three-year average final compensation for new employees represented by the two Associations. These provisions shall also apply to unrepresented management Miscellaneous employees. For Police, Fire and Marine Safety managers represented by the LBMA, unit members agree to a new tier of retirement benefit as executed by the applicable Association representing non-management Safety members.
Pursuant to the MOUs and pending approval of the Resolutions, effective February 26, 2011, new City employees represented by these Associations, shall pay 100 percent of the member contribution which, at this time, is eight percent. Additionally, the Resolutions provide that any new unrepresented management Miscellaneous employees, hired on or after February 26,2011, shall pay 100 percent of the member contribution which, at this time, is eight percent.
In order for the City to make changes to the employer paid member contribution, it is necessary for the City Council...
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