Number
041438
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
041309
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A substitute charter ordinance relating to retirement benefits for employes represented by certain bargaining units.
Sections
36-04-1-c rc
Analysis
The approved collective bargaining agreement between the city of Milwaukee and the Association of Law Enforcement Allied Services Personnel, Local #218, I.U.P.A., AFL-CIO (Police Service Personnel), includes provisions that these represented members who retire on a service retirement allowance between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2006, shall receive one year of creditable year of service for each 3 years of active military service prior to enrollment in the retirement system to a maximum of 3 years of creditable service. The added service credit is taken into account for purposes of determining the amount of the service retirement allowance but not for any other purpose, including determining eligibility for a service retirement allowance or eligibility for additional imputed service credit. This charter ordinance implements the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 36-04-1-c of the charter, as affected by file number 041309, passed February 1, 2005, is repealed and recreated to read:
36-04. Creditable Service.
1. SERVICE CREDITED. c. The board shall allow one year of creditable service for each 3 years of active military service prior to enrollment in the retirement system to policemen represented by the MPA and firemen represented by Local 215, IAFF, who participate in the combined fund and who retire on a service retirement allowance between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2002, and policemen represented by the MPSO, general city employes who participate in the combined fund and who retire on a service retirement allowance between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2002, and non-represented firemen or policemen who participate in the combined fund and who retire on a service retirement allowance between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2002, and policemen represented by the MPA, firemen represented by Local 215, IAFF, nonrepresented firemen, and general city management and nonrepresented employes, who participate in the combined fund and who retire on a service retirement allowance on or after January 1, 2003, and members represented by Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, the Public Employees' Union 61, LIUNA, AFL-CIO, the Technicians, Engineers and Architects of Milwaukee, the Association of Scientific Personnel, the Staff Nurses Council, Local 195, IBEW, AFL-CIO and Joint Bargaining Unit Local 139, IUOE, AFL-CIO/Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Machine Shop, the Association of Municipal Attorneys, the Association of Law Enforcement Allied Services Personnel, and Local #218, I.U.P.A., AFL-CIO (Police Service Personnel), who participate in the combined fund and who retire on a service retirement allowance between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2006. The creditable service awarded under this par. shall not exceed 3 years. To be eligible the member must be honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States. To be eligible for inclusion in the calculation, a period of active military service must be a period of not less than 90 consecutive days spent in the active service of the armed forces of the United States and meet the requirements of 10 U.S.C. ยง 101(d)(1). If a member has accumulated less than 3 years of active military service, the member shall be allowed additional months of service credit on a pro rata basis calculated as the product of the full months of active military service under this par. multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is 3. The additional service credit earned under this par. shall be taken into account for purposes of determining the amount of the service retirement allowance, but shall not be taken into account for any other purpose including, but not limited to determining eligibility for a service retirement allowance under s. 36-05-1-d or f, a deferred retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-b-2 or 6-d-2, an early retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-b-3 or 6-c, or eligibility for additional imputed service credit under sub. 4.
Part 2. This is a charter ordinance and shall take effect 60 days after its passage and publication, unless within such 60 days a referendum petition is filed as provided in s. 66.0101(5), Wis. Stats., in which event this ordinance shall not take effect until submitted to a referendum and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon.
LRB:
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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Legislative Reference Bureau
Date: ___________________
ATTORNEY
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
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Office of the City Attorney
Date: _________________________
Requestor
Department of Employe Relations
Drafter
LRB05043-3
BJZ/rk
3/7/2005