HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 03252014 - D.5RECOMMENDATION(S):
ADOPT Resolution No. 2014/88 making Government Code section 31870 (Two Percent Cost of Living Adjustment
to Retirement Benefit) applicable to sworn employees represented by the District Attorney Investigators' Association
and to Related Sworn Unrepresented Employees who are hired on and after July 1, 2014, who become new members
of the Contra Costa County Employee Retirement Association (CCCERA) in the Public Employee Pension Reform
Act (PEPRA) Tier.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Implementation of a change in the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to the pension benefit for sworn unrepresented
employees and sworn employees represented by the District Attorney Investigators' Association, hired after July 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.
BACKGROUND:
In the Memorandum of Understanding ratified by the District Attorney Investigators' Association on March 13, 2014
and approved by the Board of Supervisors on March 25, 2014, the parties agreed that employees represented by the
District Attorney Investigators' Association hired on or after July 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 safety members
of CCCERA.
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 03/25/2014 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor
ABSENT:Mary N. Piepho, District III 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: March 25, 2014
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June Mchuen, Deputy
cc: Robert Campbell, Auditor-Controller, Christine Penkala, County Benefits Manager
D.5
To:Board of Supervisors
From:David Twa, County Administrator
Date:March 25, 2014
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Implementing Two Percent Cost of Living Adjustment to Retirement Benefit for Employees Represented by the
District Attorney Investigators' Association
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
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),
except for certain District Attorney Inspector, Probation, and Retirement classifications. This action will apply
Government Code section 31870 to persons hired on or after July 1, 2014, into unrepresented sworn positions
currently existing in the District Attorney’s Office--District Attorney Chief of Inspectors, District Attorney
Lieutenant of Inspectors, and Lieutenant of Inspectors- Welfare Fraud classifications, and to any future unsworn
represented positions in the District Attorney’s Office.
Consistent with the Memorandum of Understanding with the District Attorney Investigators' Association,
Resolution 2014/88 will effect the change to the pension COLA for all future sworn employees of the District
Attorney’s Office who become New Members of CCCERA in the PEPRA Tier on or after July 1, 2014.
(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. 2014/88