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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 (CalPERS) governing the City retirement benefits for affected employees are incorporated by reference herein. The City shall continue to make contributions to CalPERS in accordance with its contract with CalPERS for employees covered by said contract as amended. 13.2 Deferred Retirement. The City will continue to make payment to CalPERS on behalf of each employee, in an amount necessary to pay one hundred percent (100%) of their 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 Ca1PERS 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. 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%). For the purpose of reporting an employee's compensation to CalPERS, 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 full-time City service, can have up to a maximum of sixteen hundred (1,600) hours of 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 of unused sick leave (i.e., two hundred (200) days of sick leave equals eight tenths (.8) 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. This section applies to members whose effective date of retirement is within one hundred and twenty (120) days or four (4) months of separation from employment. B. Employees with at least ten (10) years of full-time City service that retire from the City of Santa Ana within one hundred twenty (120) days or four (4) months of SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) MOU: 2022-2025