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<br />separation from employment can convert up to two thousand (2,000) hours of <br />accrued unused sick leave towards CalPERS Service Credit. The City must report <br />only those days of unused sick leave that were accrued by the employee during the <br />normal course of employment. <br />C.Effective the date of City Council adoption of this 2022-2025 MOU, the maximum <br />total unused sick leave that can be converted shall be ten (10) eight (8) hour working <br />days equal to eighty (80) hours. Employees hired on or after a contract amendment <br />between the City and CalPERS shall not be eligible to convert unused sick leave to <br />CalPERS for service credit. <br />13.4 Military Service Credit as Public Service. An employee covered by this MOU may elect <br />to purchase up to four (4) years of service credit for any continuous active military or <br />merchant marine service prior to employment. The employee must contribute an amount <br />equal to the contribution for current and prior service that the employee and the employer <br />would have made with respect to that period of service. <br />13.5 2.7% at 55 Service Retirement Benefit for Classic Miscellaneous Members. The City <br />agrees to provide Miscellaneous employees covered by this MOU with the 2.7% at 55 <br />Service Retirement benefit pursuant to CalPERS regulations. This formula will apply to <br />each year of eligible service credited with the City of Santa Ana. <br />Employee Contribution for Retirement Benefit. The employee’s contribution rate will be <br />eight percent (8%). All employee contributions for retirement benefits are paid to the <br />employer cost (i.e., employer contribution) in accordance with Government Code Section <br />20516(f). The parties acknowledge that this provision has been mutually negotiated and <br />incorporated as an essential element of the parties’ MOU. In the event that either party <br />wishes to modify this provision in a successor MOU, the parties intend for this provision <br />to remain unchanged until a successor MOU is ratified or impasse procedures have been <br />concluded. <br />Pre-Taxable Benefit. To the extent permitted by CalPERS and Internal Revenue Service <br />regulations, the City shall make the above employee deductions pre-tax contributions. <br />13.6 For “New Members” within the meaning of the California Public Employees’ Pension <br />Reform Act (“PEPRA”) of 2013. <br />The PEPRA went into effect on January 1, 2013. The parties agree that if there is any other <br />clean up or other retirement legislation which goes into effect during this MOU and if there <br />are provisions of that legislation which, by law, automatically goes into effect, either party <br />may request to negotiate over the legislation, including over the impact. <br />SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) MOU: 2022-2025 45