55C - RESOLUTION AND AGREEMENT PUBLIC AGENCY RETIREMENT SVCS

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EXHIBIT IA SERVICES PARS will provide the following services for the City of Santa Ana 3121 Part-Time Social Security Alternative Retirement Plan: 1. Plan Installation Services: (A) Meeting with appropriate Agency personnel to discuss plan provisions, implementation timelines, benefit communication strategies, data reporting and contribution submission requirements; (B) Providing the necessary analysis and advisory services to finalize these elements of the Plan; (C) Providing the documentation needed to establish the Plan for review by Agency legal counsel, which must be reviewed and approved by the Agency, as demonstrated by the execution of this Agreement prior to the commencement of PARS services. 2. Plan Administration Services: (A) Monitoring the receipt of Plan contributions made by the Agency to the trustee of the PARS Trust ("Trustee"), based upon information received from the Agency and the Trustee; (B) Performing periodic accounting of Plan assets, including the allocation of employer and employee contributions, distributions, investment activity and expenses (if applicable) to individual Participant accounts, based upon information received from the Agency and/or Trustee; (C) Acting as ongoing liaison between the Participant and the Agency in regard to distribution payments, which shall include use by the Participants of toll-free telephone communication to PARS; (D) Coordinating the processing of Participant distribution payments pursuant to authorized written Agency certification of distribution eligibility, authorized direction by the Agency, the provisions further contained in this Agreement, and the provisions of the Plan; (E) Directing Trustee to make Participant distribution payments, pursuant to the Agency authorization provisions in this Agreement, and producing required tax filings regarding said distribution payments; (F) Notifying the Trustee of the amount of Plan assets available for further investment and management, or, the amount of Plan assets necessary to be liquidated in order to fund Participant distribution payments; (G) Coordinating actions with the Trustee as directed by the Plan Administrator within the scope this Agreement; (H) Preparing and submitting a periodic Non-Contribution report which includes all Participants who have received no new contributions for a period of time as specified Page 6 55C-13