SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) (2019-2022)

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ARTICLE XIII 13.0 RETIREMENT 13.1 General, The terms of the existing contract between the City and California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS) governing the City retirement benefits for affected employees are incorporated by reference herein. The City shall continue to make contributions to CaIPERS in accordance with its contract with CaIPERS for SAMA employees covered by said contract as amended. 13.2 Deferred Retirement, The City will continue to make payment to CaIPERS on behalf of each SAMA employee, in an amount necessary to pay one hundred percent (100%) of his or her individual retirement contribution which is currently equal to eight percent (8%) of base salary, effective January 1, 2009. Such payments shall be credited to the individual employee's CaIPERS account as Employer Paid Member Contribution (EPMC). Such payments are not increases in base salary and no salary rate range applicable to any of the employees covered by this MOU shall be changed or deemed to have been changed by reason thereof. As a result, the City will not treat these payments as ordinary income and, thus will not withhold Federal or State income tax from said payments. The City has received an opinion or ruling from the Internal Revenue Service confirming that these payments are deferred compensation, and not ordinary income. In the event that the City receives a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service that such payments are ordinary income of the employees instead of deferred compensation, the City's obligation to make such payments shall discontinue and in place thereof the base salary of each said employee shall forthwith be increased by eight percent (8%) after January 1, 2009. For the purpose of reporting an employee's compensation to CaIPERS, the City shall include these payments as if they were a part of the employee's base salary. 13.3 Credit for Unused Sick Leave. A. An employee covered by this MOU with less than ten (10) years of fill -time City service, can have up to a maximum of 1600 hours of unused accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement converted to additional service credit at the rate of 0.004 years of service credit for each day of unused sick leave (i,e., 200 days of sick leave equals .80 additional years of service credit). The City must report only those days of unused sick leave that were accrued by the employee during the normal course of employment. SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) MOU: 2019-2022 0