SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (“SAMA”)

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separation from employment can convert up to two thousand (2,000) hours of accrued unused sick leave towards Ca1PERS 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. C. Effective the date of City Council adoption of this 2022-2025 MOU, 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 CalPERS shall not be eligible to convert unused sick leave to Ca1PERS for service credit. 13.4 Military Service Credit as Public Service. An employee covered by this MOU 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. 13.5 2.7% at 55 Service Retirement Benefit for Classic Miscellaneous Members. The City agrees to provide Miscellaneous employees covered by this MOU with the 2.7% at 55 Service Retirement benefit pursuant to Ca1PERS regulations. This formula will apply to each year of eligible service credited with the City of Santa Ana. Employee Contribution for Retirement Benefit. The employee's contribution rate will be eight percent (8%). All employee contributions for retirement benefits are paid to the employer cost (i.e., employer contribution) in accordance with Government Code Section 20516(f). The parties acknowledge that this provision has been mutually negotiated and incorporated as an essential element of the parties' MOU. In the event that either party wishes to modify this provision in a successor MOU, the parties intend for this provision to remain unchanged until a successor MOU is ratified or impasse procedures have been concluded. Pre -Taxable Benefit. To the extent permitted by Ca1PERS and Internal Revenue Service regulations, the City shall make the above employee deductions pre-tax contributions. 13.6 For "New Members" within the meaning of the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act ("PEPRA") of 2013. The PEPRA went into effect on January 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. SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) MOU: 2022.2025