The “State Employees' Retirement Act”, as now amended or as it may hereafter be amended, is hereby adopted for the City of Alhambra.
Plenary authority and power is hereby vested in the City of Alhambra, its council, and its several officers, agents and employees to do and perform any act, or exercise any authority granted, permitted or required, whereby said city, under the provisions of said retirement act, shall become a contracting city fully participating in the state employees' retirement system, on the same basis as state employees wherever and whenever said act permits; provided, however, that the legislative body of the City of Alhambra may terminate any contract entered into with the board of administration of the state employees' retirement system only under authority granted by ordinance adopted by a majority vote of the electors of the City of Alhambra. The employees of the Alhambra City Library shall be considered and held to be employees of the City of Alhambra for the purpose of the establishment and maintenance of the retirement system hereby authorized.
The council shall levy and collect taxes sufficient to pay all costs and expenses to be paid by the City of Alhambra to enable said city to participate in the state employees' retirement system, and limitations of article XVIII, section 128, of the Charter of the City of Alhambra, with respect to the levying and collec-tion of municipal taxes, shall not apply to any tax authorized by this article. (1944, A.C. Res. 33.3).