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`"1 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 2.04.055,
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS, OF CHAPTER 2.04, CITY
COUNCIL, OF TITLE 2, ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL OF
THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, Section 2.04.055 of the Moorpark Municipal Code (Code) provides
to a councilmember who is ineligible for California Public Employees Retirement System
(CaIPERS) retirement contributions the same retirement benefits afforded to the City of
Moorpark's temporary part-time employees; and
WHEREAS, prior to May 22, 2010, the City paid the entire retirement contribution
required for the temporary part-time employee alternate retirement system in
compliance with Federal requirements, or 7.5 %, to Nationwide Retirement Solutions,
Inc. (NRS), a retirement plan provider; and
WHEREAS, as of May 22, 2010, the City terminated NRS and appointed Public
Agency Retirement Services (PARS) as Trust Administrator of the alternate retirement
system in compliance with Federal requirements; and
WHEREAS, as of June 1, 2010, the City revised the alternate retirement system
consistent with Federal requirements, so that employees pay 3.75% of the retirement
contribution while the City pays the remaining 3.75 %; and
WHEREAS, the current CaIPERS City -paid competitive service employee
contribution is currently 7 %; and
WHEREAS, the City -paid alternate retirement system for temporary part-time
employees no longer provides an equitable contribution for a councilmember who is
ineligible for CaIPERS; and
WHEREAS, on May 19, 2010, the City Council of the City of Moorpark directed
staff to amend Section 2.04.055 of the Code changing the alternate retirement system
for a councilmember ineligible for the CaIPERS retirement plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 2.04.055 of the Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read in its entirety as follows:
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"2.04.055 Compensation and benefits.
The compensation of each city councilmember shall be six hundred
dollars ($600.00) per month.
All sitting councilmembers shall be entitled to the same health
insurance and life insurance benefits afforded the city's competitive
service employees, and as such may be amended from time to time for
the city's competitive service employees, with the exception that
councilmembers are not eligible for a cash -back payment in lieu of health
insurance.
All sitting councilmembers shall be entitled to the same California
Public Employees Retirement System (CaIPERS) benefits afforded the
city's competitive service employees, and as such may be amended from
time to time for the city's competitive service employees. If a sitting
councilmember is not eligible to receive a CaIPERS retirement
contribution, such councilmember shall receive a contribution to the city's
alternate retirement system plan in compliance with Federal requirements,
and that contribution shall be equivalent to the city -paid competitive
service employee contribution to CaIPERS and shall not include the
CaIPERS employer contribution. If the CaIPERS employee contribution
amount is less than the total minimum contribution required for the
alternate retirement system plan, in compliance with Federal
requirements, such councilmember shall pay the portion of the Federally
mandated minimum retirement contribution that exceeds the City -paid
retirement contribution."
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion
of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this
Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion
thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its
passage and adoption. Any change in retirement contribution for a seated member of
the City Council shall not become effective until the beginning of that member's change
in term of office.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
Ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall
make a minute of the passage and the adoption thereof in the records of the
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proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall,
within fifteen (15) days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be
published once in the Ventura County Star a newspaper of general circulation, as
defined in Section 6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is
hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of October, 2010.
Janice S. Parvin, Mayor
ATTEST:
Deborah S. Traffenstedt, City Clerk
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