(a) City employees who are not police officers or fire-fighters are members of the Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Plan C-2, with a B-1 base, and the E benefit and F-55 waiver, as defined by Public Act 135 of 1945, as amended. Any member of this Retirement System may voluntarily retire upon attainment of age fifty-five years with fifteen or more years of service, or age sixty years with ten or more years of service. The normal retirement age is sixty-five. Retirement is mandatory when an employee reaches seventy years of age.
(b) Each police officer or fire-fighter employed by the City shall immediately become a member of the Policemen and Firemen Retirement System. Any member of this Retirement System may voluntarily retire upon attainment of age fifty years after twenty-five years of service. Any police officer or fire-fighter who has attained the age of sixty may be asked to retire by the City. After age sixty, the employee, upon petition to the City Manager, may continue on a year-to-year basis to age sixty-five. In order to continue on this year-to-year basis, the employee may be asked to provide medical proof, at his own expense, that he is physically fit to continue work. Retirement is mandatory when an employee reaches sixty-five years of age.
(c) No person shall be employed by the City, or paid with City funds, who has retired under the provisions of either the Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System or the Policemen and Firemen Retirement System. The City Manager may make exceptions to this provision, with the approval of the City Commission, when he feels the interests of the City would be served thereby.
(d) Every employee, except members of the Policemen and Firemen Retirement System, shall be subject to the provisions of the Federal Social Security Old Age and Survivor's Insurance Program and deduction to cover such payments shall be made from each payroll to the maximum as the law provides.
(e) Additional information on retirement shall be provided by the office of Employee Relations.
(Ord. 14-78. Passed 11-28-78; Res. 702. Passed 2-18-86; Res. 711. Passed 2-25-86.)
(f) A day of work, for all employees, for retirement purposes, shall consist of eight hours.
(Res. 173. Passed 3-19-96.)
(g) Past requirement benefits for retired police and fire employees of the City under the provisions of Act 345 of the Public Acts of 1937, as amended, shall be adjusted as follows:
(1) Effective January 1, 1996, and each January 1 thereafter, the minimum monthly pension benefit shall increase a maximum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) until a minimum monthly pension benefit of one thousand dollars ($1,000) is reached. This increase would also affect beneficiaries receiving the automatic sixty percent benefit and those receiving benefits of members who elected options other than the automatic sixty percent. Such survivor benefits shall be capped once the member's original benefit would have reached one thousand dollars ($1,000) per month.
(2) This pension adjustment shall apply only to those members and beneficiaries who are retired and receiving a pension benefit as of the effective date of this subsection.
(Res. 75. Passed 1-2-96.)