CalPERS
EXHIBIT
California
Public Employees' Retirement System
AMENDMENT TO CONTRACT
Between the
Board of Administration
California Public Employees' Retirement System
and the
City Council
City of San Jacinto
The Board of Administration, California Public Employees' Retirement System, hereinafter referred to as Board, and the governing body of the above public agency, hereinafter referred to as Public Agency, having entered into a contract effective December 31, 1970, and witnessed November 17, 1970, and as amended etective September 28, 1973, October 7, 1976, January 13, 1983, January 21, 1988, May 2, 1999, October 21, 2001, June 24, 2002, June 23, 2003, September 8, 2008, and March 3, 2012, which provides for participation of Public Agency in said System, Board and Public Agency hereby agree as follows:
A. Paragraphs 1 through 16 are hereby stricken from said contract as executed, effective March 3, 2026, and hereby replaced by the following paragraphs numbered 1 through 19 inclusive:
All words and terms used herein which are defined in the Public Employees' Retirement Law shall have the meaning as defined therein unless otherwise specifically provided. "Normal retirement age" shall mean age 55 for classic local miscellaneous members, age 62 for new local miscellaneous, age 55 for classic local fire members, age 50 for classic local police members, and age 57 for new local safety members.
2. Public Agency shall participate in the Public Employees' Retirement System from and after December 31, 1970, making its employees as hereinafter provided, members of said System subject to all provisions of the Public Employees' Retirement Law except such as apply only on election of a contracting agency and are not provided for herein and to all amendments to said Law hereafter enacted except those, which by express provisions thereof, apply only on the election of a contracting agency.
3. Public Agency agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and its trustees, agents and employees, the CaPERS Board of Administration, and the California Public Employees' Retirement Fund from any claims, demands, actions, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, expenses and costs, including but not limited to interest, penalties and attorney fees that may arise as a result of any of the following:
(a) Public Agency's election to provide retirement benefits, provisions or formulas under this Contract that are different than the retirement benefits, provisions or formulas provided under the Public Agency's prior non-CalPERS retirement program.
(b) Any dispute, disagreement, claim, or proceeding (including without limitation arbitration, administrative hearing, or litigation) between Public Agency and its employees (or their
representatives) which relates to Public Agency's election to amend this Contract to provide retirement benefits, provisions or formulas that are different than such employees' existing retirement benefits, provisions or formulas.
(c) Public Agency's agreement with a third party other than CaPERS to provide retirement benefits, provisions, or formulas that are different than the retirement benefits, provisions or formulas provided under this Contract and provided for under the California Public Employees' Retirement Law.
Employees of Public Agency in the following classes shall become members of said Retirement System except such in each such class as are excluded by law or this agreement:
a. Local Fire Fighters (herein referred to as local safety members); b. Local Police Officers (herein referred to as local safety members); c. Employees other than local safety members (herein referred to as local miscellaneous members).
5. In addition to the classes of employees excluded from membership by said Retirement Law, the following classes of employees shall not become members of said Retirement System:
NO ADDITIONAL EXCLUSIONS
6. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service for classic local miscellaneous members in employment before and not on or after September 8, 2008, shall be determined in accordance with Section 21354 of said Retirement Law, subject to the reduction provided therein for service prior to December 31, 1982, termination of Social Security, for members whose service has been included in Federal Social Security (2% at age 55 Full and Modified). 7 The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service for classic local miscellaneous members in employment before and not on or after September 8, 2008, and not entering membership for the first time in the miscellaneous classification after March 3, 2012, shall be determined in accordance with Section 21354.5 of said Retirement Law, subject to the reduction provided therein for service prior to December 31, 1982, termination of Social Security, for members whose service has been included in Federal Social Security (2.7% at age 55 Full and Modified).
8. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a classic local miscellaneous member shall be determined in accordance with Section 21354 of said Retirement Law (2% at age 55 Full).
9. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a new local miscellaneous member shall be determined in accordance with Section 7522.20 of said Retirement Law (2% at age 62 Full).
10. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a classic local fire member shall be determined in accordance with Section 21369 of said Retirement Law (2% at age 55 Full).
11. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a classic local police member shall be determined in accordance with Section 21362 of said Retirement Law (2% at age 50 Full).
12. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a new local fire member shall be determined in accordance with Section 7522.25(b) of said Retirement Law (2% at age 57 Full).
13. The percentage of final compensation to be provided for each year of credited prior and current service as a new local police member shall be determined in accordance with Section 7522.25(d) of said Retirement Law (2.7% at age 57 Full).
14. Public Agency elected and elects to be subject to the following optional provisions:
a. Section 21024 (Military Service Credit as Public Service) for local miscellaneous members and local police members only.
Section 20425 ("Local Police Officer" shall include employees of a police department who were employed to perform identification or communication duties on August 4, 1972, and who elected to be local safety members).
c. Section 21574 (Fourth Level of 1959 Survivor Benefits).
Section 20042 (One-Year Final Compensation) for classic members only.
e. Section 20475 (Different Level of Benefits): Section 21354 (2% @ 55 Full formula) is applicable to classic local miscellaneous members entering membership for the first time with this agency in the miscellaneous classification after March 3, 2012.
15. Public Agency, in accordance with Government Code Section 20790, ceased to be an "employer" for purposes of Section 20834 effective or October 7, 1976. Accumulated contributions of Public Agency shall be fixec and determined as provided in Government Code Section 20834, and accumulated contributions thereafter shall be held by the Board as provided in Government Code Section 20834.
16. Public Agency shall contribute to said Retirement System the contributions determined by actuarial valuations of prior and future service liability with respect to local miscellaneous members and local safety members of said Retirement System.
17. Public Agency shall also contribute to said Retirement System as follows:
a. Contributions required per covered member on account of the 1959 Survivor Benefits provided under Section 21574 of said Retirement Law. (Subject to annual change.) In addition, all assets and liabilities of Public Agency and its employees shall be pooled in a single account, based on term insurance rates, for survivors of all local miscellaneous members and local safety members.
b A reasonable amount, as fixed by the Board, payable in one installment within 60 days of date of contract to cover the costs of administering said System as it affects the employees of Public Agency, not including the costs of special valuations or of the periodic investigation and valuations required by law.
A reasonable amount, as fixed by the Board, payable in one installment as the occasions arise, to cover the costs of special valuations on account of employees of Public Agency, and costs of the periodic investigation and valuations required by law.
18. Contributions required of Public Agency and its employees shall be subject to adjustment by Board on account of amendments to the Public Employees' Retirement Law, and on account of the experience under the Retirement System as determined by the periodic investigation and valuation required by said Retirement Law.
Contributions required of Public Agency and its employees shall be paid by Public Agency to the Retirement System within fifteen days after the end of the period to which said contributions refer or as may be prescribed by Board regulation. If more or less than the correct amount of contributions is paid for any period, proper adjustment shall be made in connection with subsequent remittances. Adjustments on account of errors in contributions required of any employee may be made by direct payments between the employee and the Board.
B. This amendment shall be effective on the day of
BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION CITY COUNCIL
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM CITY OF SAN JACINTO
MELODY BENAVIDES, CHIEFT PRESIDING OFFICER
PENSION CONTRACTS AND PREFUNDING
Witness Date PLEASE DO NOT SIGN "EXHIBIT ONLY"
Attest:
Clerk
AMENDMENT CaPERS ID #1099253767
PERS-CON-702A