(a) The City of Los Angeles shall defray one-half or more of the “Normal Contributions”, “Survivor Contributions” and “Cost of Living Contributions” payable to the City Employees Retirement Fund by those employees who are members of the City Employees’ Retirement System and who, furthermore, qualify for such defrayal under the provisions of either Subsection (b) or (c) of this section and who are not excluded from the defrayal pursuant to Subsection (j) of this section, for the duration provided in those respective subsections. Such defrayal shall not constitute the establishment of a retirement benefit.
(b) Members of the City Employees’ Retirement System not represented by a recognized employee organization shall receive a defrayal of one-half of the normal contributions, plus an additional defrayal equal to two percent (2%) of the employees’ compensation earnable.
(c) For employees in classifications represented by recognized employee organizations, the defrayal pursuant to Subsection (a) hereof may be provided for in accordance with the terms of the Memoranda of Understanding affecting each classification. Said defrayal, if provided for in a Memorandum of Understanding, shall be in effect during the term of such Memorandum of Understanding. If, upon the expiration of any such Memorandum of Understanding providing for such defrayal, no successor Memorandum of Understanding has been adopted for the classifications included therein, the defrayal for the classifications in that representation unit shall continue from the date of expiration of said Memorandum of Understanding until such time as a successor Memorandum of Understanding is adopted for these classifications or until such time as the City Council adopts an ordinance terminating such defrayal, whichever occurs first.
(d) There is already established an account in the General City Purposes Fund of the Budget called “Retirement Contributions”. Money appropriated to that account shall be used for the purposes provided in this section.
(e) The contributions to be made as authorized in this section shall not be made for any member of the City Employees’ Retirement System who is an employee of the Department of Airports, the Harbor Department, the Department of Pensions or the City Employees’ Retirement System, except to the extent that such departments have authorized such contributions to be paid from funds under their control and have transferred funds to the Retirement Contributions Account.
(f) The City Controller shall, prior to the payment to the City Employees’ Retirement System, discount the amount of the employees’ contributions to be defrayed by the City by a percentage amount which shall, from time to time, be as directed by the Board of Administration, which percentage amount will reflect expected savings to accrue from terminations and withdrawals of contributions made by the employees.
(g) The Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services shall advise the Controller as to the operative date and the termination date of an employee’s entitlement to the City’s defrayal provided for in this section. It shall further be the obligation of the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services to notify the Controller regarding the identity of the employees affected by any changes in status of entitlement to the City’s defrayal of part of the employee contributions.
(h) Subject to the provisions of Section 4.1031.1 of this Code, the Controller is directed to pay one-half of the contributions of members of the City Employees’ Retirement System qualified for such defrayal pursuant to this section from the Retirement Contributions Account to the City Employees’ Retirement Fund. Such payments shall be made at times to coincide with the payment of members’ contributions to the City Employees’ Retirement system.
(i) Any reduction of employees’ contributions to City Employees’ Retirement system which results from the defrayal authorized by this section shall be subject to all the conditions set forth in Section 4.1031.1(c) of this Code.
(j) Members of the City Employees’ Retirement System who become such members on or after January 1, 1983 and who are subject to a 6% flat rate contribution to said System shall not be entitled to any defrayal of their contributions provided in this section.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 149,905, Eff. 8-1-77.
Amended by: Ord. No. 153,494, Eff. 4-18-80, Oper. 1-13-80; Subsec. (a) and (b) adds (j), Ord. No. 157,225, Eff. 12-10-82; Ord. No. 173,305, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00.