HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12172013 - SD.1RECOMMENDATION(S):
ADOPT Resolution 2013/480 making Government Code section 31870 (Two Percent Cost of Living Adjustment to
Retirement Benefit) applicable to employees represented by either the Deputy Sheriffs' Association Rank and File
Unit (Non-Sworn Classifications) or Physicians' and Dentists' Organization of Contra Costa hired on or after January
1, 2014, who become New Members of CCCERA in the PEPRA Tier.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Implementation of a change in the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to the pension benefit for employees
represented either by the Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association Rank and File Unit (non-sworn) or by
the Physicians' and Dentists' Organization of Contra Costa, hired after January 1,2014 who become members of
CCCERA in the PEPRA Tier, is intended to result in long term savings for both the employees and the County.
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 12/17/2013 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor
Contact: Lisa Driscoll, County Finance
Director (925) 335-1023
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the
minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: December 17, 2013
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc: Robert Campbell, Auditor-Controller, Ted Cwiek, Human Resources Director, Sharon Anderson, County Counsel, Marilyn Leedom, Chief Executive
Officer/CCCERA, David Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner, William Walker, Health Services Director
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To:Board of Supervisors
From:David Twa, County Administrator
Date:December 17, 2013
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Implementing Two Perfent Cost of Living Adjustment to Retirement Benefit for Various Employees and Elected
Officials
BACKGROUND:
In the Memoranda of Understanding ratified by the Deputy Sheriffs Association and approved by the Board of
Supervisors on October 1, 2013, and the Side Letter approved on December 3, 2013, the Memorandum of
Understanding ratified by the Physicians and Dentists Organization of Contra Costa County and approved by the
Board of Supervisors on December 3, 2013, the parties agreed that employees represented by these labor
organizations hired on or after January 1, 2014, who become members of CCCERA in the PEPRA Tier, will have
up to a two percent banked COLA to their retirement benefit (Government Code, § 31870), rather than up to a
three percent banked COLA (Government Code, § 31870.1) as applicable to some non-safety members of
CCCERA.
In Management Benefits Resolution 2013/299, the Board specified that Elected and Appointed Department Heads,
Management, Exempt, and Unrepresented employees hired on or after January 1, 2014, who become members of
CCCERA in the PEPRA Tier, will have up to a two percent banked COLA to their retirement benefit
(Government Code, § 31870), rather than up to a three percent banked COLA (Government Code, § 31870.1).
This provision does not apply to Retirement, District Attorney Investigator, and Probation classifications subject
to the Management Benefits Resolution. A separate resolution, 2006/770 established the two percent COLA to the
pension benefit (Government Code, § 31870) for sworn Sheriffs classifications covered by the Management
Benefits Resolution effective January 1, 2007. The instant action will not rescind Resolution 2006/770, which will
continue in full force and effect.
Employees hired on or after January 1, 2014, in classifications eligible for membership in CCCERA, become
members of CCCERA on or after February 1, 2014. (Government Code, § 31552.)
Consistent with the respective Memoranda of Understanding with the above-named labor organizations and with
the most recent Management Benefits Resolution 2013/299, adoption of Resolution 2013/480 will effect the
change to the COLA for future employees who become New Members of CCCERA in the PEPRA Tier.
(Government Code, § 31483.)
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Delay in implementation of newly negotiated two percent cost of living adjustment to retirement benefit.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
None.
ATTACHMENTS
Resolution No. 2013/480
Resolution No. 2014/2