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Member Gene Lhotka introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING SPECIAL LEGISLATION TO EXEMPT VOLUNTEER
FIREFIGHTERS FROM PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION (PERA)
POLICE AND FIRE FUND MEMBERSHIP
WHEREAS, the Brooklyn Center Volunteer Firefighters Relief Association
(the Association) and the City have been informed that volunteer firefighters
must be placed into membership in the Public Employees Retirement Association
(PERA) Police and Fire Fund upon meeting certain minimum compensation levels; and
WHEREAS, volunteer firefighters placed into PERA would then be receiving
PERA pension credit for work which is already covered under their own Association
Pension Plan; and
WHEREAS, to avoid this inequitable result, the Association's Board of
Trustees supports the pursuit of special legislation exempting their members from
PERA.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota to pursue the special legislation by adopting the
proposed legislation attached to this resolution as Exhibit A; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is directed to prepare
sufficient certified copies of this resolution and transmit them to the appro-
priate officials at the State Legislature.
March 13, 1989
Date
ATTEST: at
Clerk
Attachment
RESOLUTION NO. 89 -47
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by
member Celia Scott and upon vote being taken thereon, the following
voted in favor thereof: Dean Nyquist, Gene Lhotka, Celia Scott, Todd Paulson,
and Jerry Pedlar;
and the following voted against the same: none,
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
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RESOLUTION NO. 89 -47
A bill for an act
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
Exhibit A
relating to retirement; excluding volunteer firefighters in the City of Brooklyn
Center from membership in the Public Employees Retirement Association pension
funds.
Section 1. (Brooklyn Center Volunteer Firefighters)
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a volunteer firefighter serving
with the Brooklyn Center Fire Department shall be excluded from the definition
of "public employee" in Minnesota statutes, section 353.01, subdivision 2 for
activities undertaken as part of volunteer firefighter duties. Compensation
paid to a Brooklyn Center volunteer firefighter for volunteer firefighting duties
shall be excluded from the definition of "salary" in section 353.01, subdivision 10.
A Brooklyn Center volunteer firefighter shall not be a member of the public employees
police and fire fund as a result of volunteer firefighting duties.