NUMB:
991904
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:
XXBY:
THE CHAIR
TITLE:
A substitute charter ordinance relating to retirement benefits under the employes' retirement system.
SECS:
36-02-12-a am
ANLS:
- Analysis -
This charter ordinance implements the 1998-2000 labor agreement between the city of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Police Association, Local 21, IUPA, AFL-CIO. The 20-year pensionable longevity payment, which is pensionable, is increased by $100 effective with respect to payment beginning in 1998.
BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 36-02-12 of the charter is amended to read:
36-02. Definitions.
12. EARNABLE COMPENSATION shall mean: a. the annual regular base salary that would be payable to a member if he or she worked the full normal working time for his or her position, provided, however, that where service is credited during periods of absences as provided in s. 36-04-1-b, the employe shall be considered to have an earnable compensation as of his or her last month of employment prior to the beginning of such absences. In cases where compensation includes maintenance, the board shall fix the value of that part of the compensation not payable in money. Policemen, excluding sergeant of police, detective lieutenant and ranks above same, retiring on a service retirement allowance [[on or after]] >>between<< January 1, 1983 >>and December 31, 1997<<, shall have longevity in rank pay, if any, payable at the close of the calendar year immediately preceding their retirement included as earnable compensation >>. Policemen, excluding sergeant of police, detective lieutenant and ranks above same, retiring on a service retirement allowance on or after January 1, 1998, shall have longevity in rank pay, if any, that would have been payable at the close of the calendar year of their retirement had they not retired included as earnable compensation<<, and all other policemen retiring on a service retirement allowance shall have variable shift assignment pay, if any, to a maximum of $1,060 per calendar year for police sergeant, administrative police sergeant, police sergeant (garage) and police identification supervisor, and $1,050 per calendar year for all others payable for the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which they retire included as earnable compensation except that such other policemen who retire during calendar year 1985 shall have variable shift assignment pay, if any, payable for calendar year 1985 included as earnable compensation. Firemen retiring on a service retirement allowance on or after January 1, 1992 shall have up to a maximum of $550 in special emergency medical technician pay, if any, payable at the close of the calendar year immediately preceding their retirement included as earnable compensation. Firemen retiring on a service retirement allowance on or after January 1, 2000 shall have longevity pay, payable at the close of the calendar year immediately preceding their retirement included as earnable compensation. Members who are employes of the school board represented by Local 950, Operating Engineers International Union, who retire on or after March 4, 1990, shall have site differential pay if received on or after March 4, 1990 included as earnable compensation. Earnable compensation for any one year of creditable service shall not exceed $150,000. If for any calendar year after 1994 the excess of $150,000 increased by the cost of living adjustment prescribed by section 415(d), Internal Revenue Code, on a base period of the last quarter of calendar year 1993 exceeds $150,000 by an amount in excess of $10,000, the maximum for any subsequent calendar year shall be increased by the amount of the excess rounded to the next lowest multiple of $10,000.
Part 2. This charter ordinance shall apply to policemen covered by the 1998-2000 agreement between the City and the Milwaukee Police Association, Local 21, IUPA, AFL-CIO. All other policemen shall receive the benefits in effect prior to the adoption of this charter ordinance.
Part 3. This is a charter ordinance and shall take effect 60 days after its passage and publication, unless within such 60 days a referenum petition is filed as provided by s. 66.01(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
_________________________________
Legislative Reference Bureau
Date: ___________________________
CATT:
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
_________________________________
Office of the City Attorney
Date: ____________________________
ZDPT:
Department of Employe Relations
DFTR:
City Attorney
TEH/kef/Police Longevity pay
04/18/2000 #29954
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04/18/00