(a) Subject to the approval and order of each or any elected official of the City, following approval by the Internal Revenue Service, the full amount of the statutorily required contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions shall be withheld from the gross pay of each such City official, or other appointing authority and of each person who is an employee of such official or other appointing authority, and shall be "picked-up" (assumed and paid to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions) 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 Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions by each such person or employee. No person subject to this "pick-up" shall have the option of choosing to receive the statutorily required contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions instead of having it "picked-up" by the City or of being excluded from the "pick-up".
(b) Council approves and orders for each bargaining unit employee that the full amount of the statutorily required contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions shall be withheld from the gross pay of each person who is an employee of Council shall be "picked-up" (assumed and paid to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio) by the City. This "pick-up" is and shall be designated as Public Employees Contributions and shall be in lieu of contributions of the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions by each such employee. No person subject to this "pick-up" shall have the option of choosing to receive the statutorily required contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio instead of having it "picked-up" by the City or of being excluded from the "pick-up".
(c) The City and the Finance Director thereof, shall, in reporting and making remittance to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions, report that the Public Employees contribution for each person subject to their “pick-up” has been made by the City in lieu of contributions to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and Police and Fire Pensions by each such person and that such contributions are designated as Public Employee Contributions.
(Ord. 86-89. Passed 11-28-89.)