Number
121718
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
020479, 041592
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution relating to City contributions for health benefits of certain employees of the Fire and Police Departments upon retirement.
Analysis
This resolution corrects a discrepancy in Common Council Resolution File Number 041592 so as to continue to permit sworn fire and police management personnel who retire on a service retirement to have their share and the City’s share of the cost of retiree health coverage based on their sick leave balances at retirement.
Body
Whereas, Common Council Resolution File Number 041592, adopted July 6, 2005, stated that the “Common Council wishes to amend Common Council Resolution File No. 020479 to permit all sworn fire and police management employees appointed to a management position on or after January 1, 2004, to pay for retiree health insurance based on their sick leave balances on the same basis as provided in the current contract between the City and Local 215 for sworn Fire management, and on the same basis as provided in the current contract between the City and the Milwaukee Police Supervisors’ Organization for police management;” and
Whereas, Common Council Resolution File Number 041592 was adopted to permit sworn fire and police management employees who retire on a service retirement to continue to have the monthly contribution toward meeting the monthly cost of their enrollment in City health plans, so long as they are less than age 65, paid by the City and the retirees based upon the employees’ sick leave balances upon retirement subject to the Common Council’s reserved right to change the terms and conditions of retiree health care benefits after the adoption of that resolution; and
Whereas, The final “Resolved” clause of Common Council Resolution File Number 041592 inadvertently stated in part that “the terms of this resolution shall apply only to sworn fire and police management employees who were appo...
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