(a) Effective December 29, 1991, the full amount of the statutorily required contributions to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund shall be withheld from the gross pay of each person within any of the classes established in subsection (b) hereof and shall be "picked up" (assumed and paid to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund) by the Village. This pick-up by the Village is, and shall be designated as, public employee contributions and shall be in lieu of contributions to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund by each person within any of the classes established in subsection (b) hereof. No person subject to this pick-up shall have the option of choosing to receive the statutorily required contribution to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund directly instead of having it picked up by the Village or of being excluded from the pick-up.
The Village shall, in reporting and making remittance to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, report that the contribution for each person subject to this pick-up has been made as provided by State statute.
(b) The pick-up by the Village provided by this section shall apply to all employees of the Village who are or become contributing members of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund.
(c) The Village's method of payment of salary to employees who are participants in the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund is hereby modified as follows, in order to provide for a salary reduction pick-up of employee contributions to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund: The total salary for each employee shall be the salary otherwise payable under Village policies. Such total salary of each employee shall be payable by the Village in two parts:
(1) Deferred salary; and
(2) Cash salary.
An employee's deferred salary shall be equal to that percentage of that employee's total salary which is required from time to time by the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund to be paid as an employee contribution by that employee, and the same shall be paid by the Village to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund on behalf of that employee as a pick-up and in lieu of the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund 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 Village shall compute and remit its employer contributions to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund based upon an employee's total salary. The total combined expenditures of the Village for such employee's total salary, payable under applicable Village policies, and the pick-up provisions of this section, shall not be greater than the amounts it would have paid for those items had this provision not been in effect.
The Clerk-Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to implement the provisions of this section to institute the pick-up of the statutorily required contributions to the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund for those persons provided in subsection (b) hereof, so as to enable them to obtain the result in Federal and State tax deferments and other benefits.
(Ord. O-92-014. Passed 3-2-92.)