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ARTICLE XII 12.0 RETIREMENT 12.1 General. The terms of the existing contract between the City and California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS) governing the City retirement benefits for employees are incorporated by reference herein. The City shall continue to make contributions to (CaIPERS) in accordance with its contract with Ca1PERS for employees covered by said contract as amended. 12.2 Deferred Retirement. The City shall continue to make payment to CaIPERS on behalf of each employee covered by this MOU in accordance with the following schedule: A. With respect to Miscellaneous employees covered by this MOU who do not qualify as "New Members" under the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA), the City shall pay an amount necessary to pay one hundred percent (100%) of his or her individual retirement contribution which is equal to eight percent (8%). Such payments shall be credited to the individual employee's CaIPERS account. Such payments are not increases in base salary and no salary rate range applicable to any of the employees covered by this MOU shall be changed or deemed to have been changed by reason thereof. As a result, the City will not treat these payments as ordinary income and, thus will not withhold Federal or State income tax from said payments. The City has received an opinion or ruling from the Internal Revenue Service confirming that these payments are deferred compensation, not ordinary income. For the purpose of reporting an employee's compensation to CaIPERS, the City shall include these payments as if they were a part of the employee's base salary. 12.3 Credit for Unused Sick Leave. Employees covered by this MOU, can have unused accumulated sick leave at the time of retirement converted to additional service credit at the rate of 0.004 years of service credit for each day of unused sick leave (i.e., 200 days of sick leave equals .8 additional years of 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. This section applies to members whose effective date of retirement is within four (4) months of separation from employment. 12.4 Military Service Credit as Public Service. Employees 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. U-1 25B-50