(a) On the date of adoption of Ordinance 1992-31, passed March 11, 1992, Ordinance 1992-32, passed March 11, 1992, Ordinance 1992-33, passed March 11, 1992, Ordinance 1992-37, passed March 18, 1992, and Ordinance 1992-136, passed October 21, 1992, or thereafter as provided for in such ordinances, the percentage of the statutorily required contributions to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio (hereinafter referred to as P.E.R.S.) shall be ratified as withheld from the gross pay of each person within any of the position classifications covered by or established in such ordinances, and shall be "picked-up" by the City. This pick-up by the City is, and shall be designated as, public employee contributions and shall be in lieu of contributions to the P.E.R.S. by each person within any of the position classifications provided in such ordinances. No person subject to this pick-up shall have the option of choosing to receive the statutorily required contribution to the P.E.R.S. directly instead of having it pick-up by the City, or of being excluded from the pick-up. The City shall, in reporting and making remittance to the P.E.R.S., report that the public employee's contribution for each person subject to this pick-up has been made as provided by State statute. Council hereby adopts and ratifies the actions in reporting and making the remittances in the year 1992 under each of the above-mentioned ordinances.
The pick-up by the City provided by this section shall apply to all persons who are employees of the City who are or become contributing members of P.E.R.S.
The City's method of payment of wages or salary to employees who are members of P.E.R.S. is hereby modified in order to provide for a pension pickup-by reduction plan for the year 1992, and thereafter, as follows: The total salary for each employee shall be the salary otherwise payable under City policies. Such total salary of each employee shall be payable by the City in two parts: deferred salary and cash salary. An employee's deferred salary shall be equal to that percentage of that employee's total salary that is required, from time to time, by P.E.R.S. to be paid as an employee contribution by that employee, and shall be paid by the City to P.E.R.S. on behalf of that employee as a pick-up and in lieu of the P.E.R.S. employee contribution otherwise payable by that employee. An employee's cash salary shall be equal to that employee's total salary less the amount of the pick-up for that employee, and shall be payable, subject to applicable payroll deductions, to that employee. The City shall compute and remit its employer contributions to P.E.R.S. based upon an employee's total salary. The total combined expenditures of the City for such employee's total salary payable under applicable City policies and the pickup provisions of this subsection shall not be greater than the amounts it would have paid for those items had this provision not been in effect. Council hereby ratifies and adopts all the actions that were taken pursuant to the above- mentioned ordinances during the year 1992 and intends to have the pick-up continue hereafter.
The Finance Director is hereby authorized and directed to implement the provisions of this subsection to institute the pick-up of the statutorily required contributions to P.E.R.S. for those persons provided for in this subsection so as to enable them to obtain the result of Federal and State tax deferments and other benefits. Council hereby ratifies and adopts the actions of the Finance Director that were made pursuant to the above-mentioned ordinances during the year 1992 and intends them to continue during 1993 and thereafter.
(Ord. 1993-15. Passed 2-3-93.)
(b) Beginning March 28, 1993, the full amount of the statutorily required contributions to the P.E.R.S. shall be withheld from the gross pay of each person who is covered by the current collective bargaining agreement between the Maple Heights Transit Employees' Association and the City, and shall be picked-up (assumed and paid to the P.E.R.S.) by the City. This pick-up by the City is, and shall be designated as, public employee contributions and shall be in lieu of contributions to the P.E.R.S. by each person covered under the aforementioned collective bargaining agreement. No person subject to this pick-up shall have the option of choosing to receive the statutorily required contribution to the P.E.R.S. directly instead of having it picked-up by the City or of being excluded from the pick-up.
The City shall, in reporting and making remittance to the P.E.R.S., report that the public employee's contribution for each person subject to this pick-up has been made as provided by state statute.
The City's method of payment of wages of employees who are participants in P.E.R.S. is hereby modified as follows, in order to provide for a salary reduction pickup of employee contributions to P.E.R.S. The total wages for each covered employee shall be the wages otherwise payable under the City's policies. Such total wages of each employee shall be payable by the City in two parts: deferred wages and cash wages. An employee's deferred wages shall be equal to that percentage of that employee's total wages that are required, from time to time, by P.E.R.S. to be paid as an employee contribution by that employee, and shall be paid by the City to P.E.R.S. on behalf of that employee as a pick-up and in lieu of the P.E.R.S. employee contribution otherwise payable by that employee. An employee's cash wages shall be equal to that employee's total wages less the amount of the pick-up for that employee, and shall be payable, subject to applicable payroll deductions, to that employee. The City shall compute and remit its employer contributions to P.E.R.S. based upon an employee's total salary. The total combined expenditures of the City for such employee's total salary payable under applicable City policies and the pickup provisions of this subsection shall not be greater than the amounts it would have paid for those items had this provision not been in effect.
The Mayor is hereby authorized to implement the provisions of this subsection to institute the pick-up of the statutorily required contributions to the P.E.R.S. for those persons provided for in this subsection so as to enable them to obtain the result of Federal and State tax deferments and other benefits.
(Ord. 1993-58. Passed 3-18-93.)