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File #: 050744    Version: 0
Type: Charter Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/27/2005 In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 10/18/2005
Effective date: 1/3/2006    
Title: A charter ordinance abolishing the policemen's annuity and benefit fund board of trustees and transferring administrative and managerial responsibilities with respect to the policemen's annuity and benefit fund to the annuity and pension board.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: EMPLOYES RETIREMENT SYSTEM, POLICEMENS ANNUITY AND BENEFIT FUND, RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Attachments: 1. Letter from City Attorney's Office, 2. Fiscal Analysis, 3. Reply from DOA-Budget & management, 4. Notice Published 11-03-05.PDF
Number
050744
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A charter ordinance abolishing the policemen's annuity and benefit fund board of trustees and transferring administrative and managerial responsibilities with respect to the policemen's annuity and benefit fund to the annuity and pension board.
Sections
35-01-3-b am
36-15-1-e cr
Analysis
This ordinance abolishes the policemen's annuity and benefit fund board of trustees and transfers administrative and managerial responsibilities with respect to the policemen's annuity and benefit fund to the annuity and pension board (employees' retirement system). Abolition is conditioned on meeting the requirements of s. 35-01-3-b: two-thirds of the board members must consent to abolition, then at least two-thirds of the fund's adult members and beneficiaries, present at a meeting or by proxy, must approve the board's decision by at least a two-thirds vote.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Pursuant to the provisions of s. 35-01-3-b, the board of trustees of the policemen's annuity and benefit fund is abolished. The powers and duties under this chapter are granted to the annuity and pension board, established under ch. 36, pursuant to ss. 35-01-3-b and 36-15-1-e.

Part 2. The city of Milwaukee shall indemnify and hold harmless the board of trustees of the policemen's annuity and benefit fund, its officers, directors and employees from any and all liability, damages, or injury arising out of the transfer of the administration and management of the policemen's annuity and benefit fund to the annuity and pension board.

Part 3. Section 36-15-1-e of the city charter is created to read:
36-15. Administration.
1. ANNUITY AND PENSION BOARD.
e. Policemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund.
e-1. The annuity and pension board is authorized to exercise all powers and duties vested in the policemen's annuity and benefit fund board of trustees by ch. 35.
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