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File #: 100574    Version:
Type: Charter Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/1/2010 In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 9/21/2010
Effective date: 12/6/2010    
Title: A substitute charter ordinance relating to retirement benefits for employes represented by certain bargaining units.
Sponsors: THE CHAIR
Indexes: CHARTER ORDINANCES, LABOR CONTRACTS, RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Attachments: 1. Cover Letter, 2. Fiscal Note, 3. Hearing Notice List, 4. Notice Publsihed on 10-6-10

Number

100574

Version

SUBSTITUTE 1

Reference

100241, 100286

Sponsor

ALD. MURPHY

Title

A substitute charter ordinance relating to retirement benefits for employes represented by certain bargaining units.

Sections

36-04-1-f  am

36-05-1-h-5-b  am

36-08-7-a-2  am

36-08-7-m  am

Analysis

This charter ordinance changes retirement benefits for city employes represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO as follows:

1.  A bonus year is added to the pension payment formulary thus qualifying an employe to retire earlier or add pension-eligible service time, or both.  Only employes who retire from August 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 are eligible.

2.  Employes retiring from August 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011 shall receive a cost-of-living increase of 2% effective the first anniversary of their retirement.

3.  Employes hired on or after August 1, 2010, shall contribute 5.5% of their earnable compensation as a contribution to the retirement system.

Body

The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

 

Part 1.  Section 36-04-1-f of the city charter is amended to read:

36-04.  Creditable Service.

1.  SERVICE CREDITED.

f.  City employes represented by Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, the Technicians, Engineers and Architects of Milwaukee, the Association of Scientific Personnel, and the Association of Municipal Attorneys, SEIU Healthcare District 1199 Wisconsin/Staff Nurses Council, Local 195, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Local 75, Journeyman Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, AFL-CIO, Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Machine Shop, District 10, IAMAW, AFL-CIO, Joint Bargaining Unit Local 139, IUOE, AFL-CIO/Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Fire Equipment Dispatchers and nonmanagement/nonrepresented employes who during the calendar year 2010 retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under s. 36-05-1-d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-c, shall be eligible for a bonus year.  At the member's discretion, the bonus year may be added either to the member's age for purposes of retirement eligibility, or to creditable service.  The bonus year may be divided into one month increments and used for a combination of additions to age and creditable service, not to exceed a total of 12 months.  All or part of the bonus year cannot be applied to earn more than 35 years of creditable service or to exceed the 70% of final average salary limitation stated in s. 36-06-10-f.  In order to be eligible for the bonus year provided in this paragraph, a non-represented/nonmanagement employe must provide notice of his or her intent to retire to his or her department head or designee by August 31, 2010.  Employes of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District represented by District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Local 366, who during the period commencing May 1, 2010 and ending April 30, 2011, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under s. 36-05-1-d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-c, shall be eligible for a bonus year pursuant to this paragraph and must give notice by February 1, 2011, of their intent to retire in order to be eligible for the bonus year.  This provision shall expire at the end of April 30, 2011.  Employes of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District who are management or non-represented, who during the period commencing January 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under s. 36-05-1-d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-c, shall be eligible for a bonus year pursuant to this paragraph and must give notice by November 1, 2011, of their intent to retire in order to be eligible for the bonus year.  This provision shall expire at the end of December 31, 2011.  [[Employes of]] >>City employes represented by<< Local 494, IBEW-AFL-CIO, Electrical Group, who during the period commencing June 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2010, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under s. 36-05-1-d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-c, shall be eligible for a bonus year pursuant to this paragraph.  This provision shall expire at the end of December 31, 2010.  Employes of Milwaukee public schools represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, who during the period commencing August 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2010, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under s. 36-05-1-d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-c, shall be eligible for a bonus year pursuant to this paragraph.  This provision shall expire January 1, 2011.  >>City employes represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, who during the period commencing August 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2010, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under s. 36-05-1-d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under s. 36-05-6-c, shall be eligible for a bonus year pursuant to this paragraph.  This provision shall expire at the end of December 31, 2010.<<

                     

Part2.  Section 36-05-1-h-5-b of the city charter is amended to read:

36-05.  Benefits. 

1.  SERVICE RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE.

h-5-b.                     City employes represented by Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, the Technicians, Engineers and Architects of Milwaukee, the Association of Scientific Personnel, the Association of Municipal Attorneys, SEIU Healthcare District 1199 Wisconsin/Staff Nurses Council, Local 195, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Local 75, Journeyman Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, AFL-CIO , Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Machine Shop, District 10, IAMAW, AFL-CIO, Joint Bargaining Unit Local 139, IUOE, AFL-CIO/Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Fire Equipment Dispatchers  and nonmanagement/nonrepresented employes who during the calendar years 2010 and 2011 retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under par. d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under par. 6-c, and their surviving spouses, shall receive a 2% pension escalator effective with the installment next following the first anniversary of their retirement.  [[Employes of]] >>City employes represented by<< Local 494, IBEW-AFL-CIO, Electrical Group, who during the period commencing June 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2011, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under par. d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under par. 6-c, and their surviving spouses, shall receive a 2% pension escalator effective with the installment next following the first anniversary of their retirement.  Employes of Milwaukee public schools represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, who during the period commencing August 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2010, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under par. d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under par. 6-c, and their surviving spouses, shall receive a 2% pension escalator effective with the installment next following the first anniversary of their retirement.  >> City employes represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, who during the period commencing August 1, 2010, and ending December 31, 2011, retire from active service on a normal service retirement allowance, including allowances under par. d-3, or on an immediate retirement allowance under par. 6-c, and their surviving spouses, shall receive a 2% pension escalator effective with the installment next following the first anniversary of their retirement.<< 

 

Part 3.  Section 36-08-7-a-2 of the city charter is amended to read:

36-08.  Method of Financing.

7.  MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS

a-2.  City employes hired on or after January 1, 2010, who are represented by Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, the Technicians, Engineers and Architects of Milwaukee, the Association of Scientific Personnel, the Association of Municipal Attorneys, SEIU Healthcare District 1199 Wisconsin/Staff Nurses Council, Local 195, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Local 75, Journeyman Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, AFL-CIO, Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Machine Shop, District 10, IAMAW, AFL-CIO, Joint Bargaining Unit Local 139, IUOE, AFL-CIO/Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, management and nonmanagement/nonrepresented employes, >>city employes represented by<< Local 494, IBEW-AFL-CIO, Electrical Group [[employees]] hired on or after June 1, 2010; >>city employes represented by<< Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Fire Equipment Dispatchers employes hired on or after June 15, 2010; >>city employes represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, hired on or after August 1, 2010;<< and employes of Milwaukee public schools represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, hired on or after August 1, 2010 shall contribute 5.5% of their earnable compensation.

 

Part 4.  Section 36-08-7-m of the city charter is amended to read:

m.  During the 8-year period immediately following their enrollment, general city employes who are enrolled as members on or after January 1, 2000 shall contribute to the combined fund a sum expressed as 1.60% of the member’s pensionable earnings if they participate in the combined fund.  If a member who makes contributions under this par. separates from service without a vested pension or withdraws his or her accumulated contributions, amounts contributed under this par. shall be returned to the contributor without interest.  This subsection shall not apply to city employes hired on or after January 1, 2010 who are represented by Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, the Technicians, Engineers and Architects of Milwaukee, the Association of Scientific Personnel, the Association of Municipal Attorneys, SEIU Healthcare District 1199 Wisconsin/Staff Nurses Council, Local 195, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Local 75, Journeyman Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, AFL-CIO, Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Machine Shop, District 10, IAMAW, AFL-CIO, Joint Bargaining Unit Local 139, IUOE, AFL-CIO/Milwaukee District Council 48, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, management and nonmanagement/nonrepresented employes; >>city employes represented by<< Local 494, IBEW-AFL-CIO, Electrical Group [[employees]] hired on or after June 1, 2010; >>city employes represented by<< Local 494, IBEW, AFL-CIO, Fire Equipment Dispatchers [[employes]] hired on or after June 15, 2010; >>city employes represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, hired on or after August 1, 2010;<< and employes of Milwaukee public schools represented by Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, hired on or after August 1, 2010. 

 

Part 5.  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

 

 

____________________________

Legislative Reference Bureau

Date:  ______________________

Attorney

IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE

IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE

 

 

____________________________

Office of the City Attorney

Date:  ______________________

 

Requestor

 

Drafter

LRB121623-2

MET

9/15/2010