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42 <br />legislation which goes into effect during this MOU and if there are provisions of that <br />legislation which, by law, automatically goes into effect, either party may request to <br />negotiate over the legislation, including over the impact. <br />Final compensation for New Safety Members will be based on the highest annual average <br />compensation earnable during a period of at least thirty-six (36) consecutive months <br />preceding the effective date of his or her retirement per Government Code Section <br />7522.32. <br />Effective July 1, 2013, employees covered under the 2.7% @ 57 retirement formula for <br />Safety shall pay one half of the normal cost rate, as established by CalPERS. <br /> <br />14.7 Military Service Credit as Public Service. “Safety” employees and “miscellaneous” <br />employees may elect to purchase up to four (4) years of service credit for any continuous <br />active military or merchant marine service prior to employment. The employee must <br />contribute an amount equal to the contribution for current and prior service that the <br />employee and the employer would have made with respect to that period of service per <br />Government Code Section 21024. <br />14.8 Credit for Unused Sick Leave. All sworn and non-sworn employees can have unused <br />accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement converted to additional service credit at <br />the rate of four thousandths (0.004) years of service credit for each day, eight (8) hours <br />per day, of unused sick leave (i.e., two hundred (200) days of sick leave equals eight <br />tenths (.8) additional years of service credit), pursuant to regulations prescribed by <br />CalPERS. The maximum total unused sick leave that can be converted shall be two- <br />hundred fifty days (250) eight (8) hours working days equal to two thousand (2000) <br />hours. Any accumulated sick leave in excess of two thousand (2000) hours shall be <br />forfeited. The City must report only those hours of unused sick leave that were accrued <br />by the employee during the normal course of employment. This section applies to <br />members whose effective date of retirement is within four (4) months or one hundred <br />twenty (120) days of separation from employment. (Government Code Section 20965) <br />Effective the date of City Council adoption of this MOU, the maximum total unused sick <br />leave that can be converted shall be ten (10) eight (8) hour working days equal to eighty <br />(80) hours. Employees hired on or after a contract amendment between the City and <br />CalPERS shall not be eligible to convert unused sick leave to CalPERS for service credit.