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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 />Final compensation for New Safety Members will be based on the highest annual average <br />compensation earnable during any 36 consecutive months preceding the effective date of his <br />or her retirement, <br />Effective July 1, 2013, employees covered under the 17% @ 57 retirement formula for <br />Safety shall pay one half of the nonnal cost rate, as established by CalPERS. <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 employee <br />and the employer would have made with respect to that period of service. <br />14.8 Credit for Unused Sick Leave. A non -sworn employee covered by this MOU can have <br />unused accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement converted to additional service credit <br />at the rate of 0.004 years of service credit for each day, eight (8) hours per day, of unused <br />sick leave (i.e., 200 days of sick leave equals .80 additional years of service credit), pursuant <br />to regulations prescribed by PERS, The maximum total unused sick leave that can be <br />converted shall be two hundred (200), eight (8) hours working days (1600 hours). Any <br />accumulated sick leave in excess of 1600 hours shall be forfeited. The City must report only <br />those hours ofuunised sick leave that were accrued by the employee during the normal course <br />of employment. This section applies to members whose effective date of retirement is within <br />four (4) months of separation from employment. The provisions of this section will also <br />apply to sworn employees covered by this MOU. <br />14.9 Effective the first pay period following council approval, the Unifonn allowance will be <br />discontinued and the City shall no longer report to CalPERS any portion of said uniform <br />allowance as constituting compensation for the employee. <br />40 <br />