Each plan may make provision for the participation in the benefits of the system by the dependents of members, retired City and County employees, temporary City and County employees, such other dependents of deceased and retired City and County employees as the Board of Supervisors may authorize by ordinance, teachers and other employees of the San Francisco Unified School District retired under the San Francisco City and County Employees' Retirement System and resigned employees of the City and County and resigned teachers and employees of the school district whose resignations occur after June 15, 1955, and within 30 days immediately prior to the date on which, but for their resignations, they would have become retired members of the said Retirement System, on whose relinquishment of retirement allowances as permitted by the Charter occurs after such date and resigned employees of the San Francisco Unified School District not otherwise included. A resigned employee or teacher is one whose employment has terminated other than by retirement, discharge or death or who has relinquished retirement allowances. The purpose of empowering the health service board to make provision for the participation in the benefits of the system to the aforementioned resigned teachers and employees of the San Francisco Unified School District is to enable them, subject to the health service board's exercise of its power, to participate in the benefits of the system after transferring to the State Teachers' Retirement System from the San Francisco City and County Employees' Retirement System. The purpose of empowering the health service board to make provision for participation in the benefits of the system by the aforementioned resigned employees of the City and County and other resigned employees of San Francisco Unified School District is to permit the health service board to have power to treat them the same as it treats resigned teachers and employees of the San Francisco Unified School District.
As used in this section, and for the purpose of this section, the terms "City and County employees" and "employees of the City and County" shall include officers and employees of the Parking Authority of the City and County of San Francisco.
In addition to "the average contributions" in Subsection (b) of Section A8.428, the Board of Supervisors may provide by ordinance for additional funds from the City and County to pay the full cost of any plan for medical benefits adopted under Sections A8.422 or A8.423 for current members of the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors may also provide by ordinance for the continuation in any plan by former supervisors who agree to and do pay the full cost of such benefit.
(Amended March 2000)