Item 25 - Memorandum of Understanding Establishing the Terms and Conditions of Employment for SAMA

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1, 2013. The parties agree that if there is any other clean up or other retirement legislation which goes into effect during this MOU and if there are provisions of that legislation which, by law, automatically goes into effect, either party may request to negotiate over the legislation, including over the impact. Final compensation for New Safety Members will be based on the highest annual average compensation earnable during a period of at least thirty-six (36) consecutive months preceding the effective date of his or her retirement per Government Code Section 7522.32. Effective July 1, 2013, employees covered under the 2.7% @ 57 retirement formula for Safety shall pay one half of the normal cost rate, as established by CAPERS. 14.7 Military Service Credit as Public Service. "Safety" employees and "miscellaneous" employees may elect to purchase up to four (4) years of service credit for any continuous active military or merchant marine service prior to employment. The employee must contribute an amount equal to the contribution for current and prior service that the employee and the employer would have made with respect to that period of service per Government Code Section 21024. 14.8 Credit for Unused Sick Leave. All sworn and non -sworn employees can have unused accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement converted to additional service credit at the rate of four thousandths (0.004) years of service credit for each day, eight (8) hours per day, of unused sick leave (i.e., two hundred (200) days of sick leave equals eight tenths (.8) additional years of service credit), pursuant to regulations prescribed by Ca1PERS. The maximum total unused sick leave that can be converted shall be two -hundred fifty days (250) eight (8) hours working days equal to two thousand (2000) hours. Any accumulated sick leave in excess of two thousand (2000) hours shall be forfeited. The City must report only those hours of unused sick leave that were accrued by the employee during the normal course of employment. This section applies to members whose effective date of retirement is within four (4) months or one hundred twenty (120) days of separation from employment. (Government Code Section 20965) The maximum total unused sick leave that can be converted shall be ten (10) eight (8) hour working days equal to eighty (80) hours. Employees hired on or after a contract amendment between the City and Ca1PERS shall not be eligible to convert unused sick leave to Ca1PERS for service credit.