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191 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ORDINANCE NO. An Ordinance of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida amending the South Miami Pension Plan, providing for an amendment to Section 16 -12, Definitions, to comply with current City policy concerning the definitions of annual compensation, final average compensation, department head, employee, full time employee, participation and part -time employee; amending Section 16- 14(f)(1)(b) to allow retired participants to change a beneficiary up to two times at the participant's cost in compliance with Chapter 2009 -97, Laws of Florida; amending the City of South Miami Police Officers Retirement Trust Fund to provide for compliance with chapter 2009 -97, Laws of Florida; amending Section 16-17(b) to eliminate the 3% interest payment on return of contribution; providing for severability; providing for codification; and providing for an effective date. WHEREAS, the current language in the pension ordinance does not comply with city policy concerning the definition of Annual Compensation, Final Average Compensation, Department Head, Employee, Full -time Employee, Participation and Part -Time Employee; and WHEREAS, an amendment to the City code is necessary to coordinate the pension ordinance language and the city policy; and WHEREAS, the 2009 Florida Legislature enacted Chapter 2009 -97, Law of Florida, which mandates certain amendments to the City of South Pension Plan and City of South Miami Police Officers' Retirement Trust Fund; and WHEREAS, recent changes to State statutes require several amendments to the Plan in order to maintain eligibility for receipt of state premium tax revenues; and WHEREAS, an amendment to the City code is necessary to permit such new obligations and conditions; and Page 1 of 9 z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 WHEREAS, the trustees of the City of South Miami Pension Plan and City of South Miami Police Officers' Retirement Trust Fund have requested and approved the amendments provided herein as being in the best interests of the participants and beneficiaries and improving the administration of the plan, and WHEREAS, the City Mayor and City Commission has received and reviewed an actuarial impact statement related to these change and attached as such; and WHEREAS, the City Commission deems it to be in the public interest to provide these changes to the pension plan and to the pension plan for its police officer employees; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA, THAT: Section 1. That the foregoing whereas clauses are hereby ratified and confirmed as being true and correct and are hereby made a specific part of this Ordinance upon adoption hereof. Section 2. Section 16 -12 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of South Miami, Florida, is hereby amended as follows: Sec. 16-12. Definitions. Annual Compensation shall mean regular wages and salaries, including hazardous pay overtime pay vacation sick leave holiday pay clothing allowance educational incentive and extra duty pay. Department Head shall be defined in Article II Section 2.5 of the City Code as designated therein including: the title of Assistant City Manager, Department Head and Police Chief, who are responsible directly to the city manager, for operation of an established City department Page 2 of 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1.9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 9 39 40 41 42 Employee shall mean any person employed full -time by the Employer on a regular, permanent basis. Elected officials and any person—vA4ese for five (5) months or less in I I shall be excluded. The city manager, and city clerk shall be included within the definition of Employee, however such positions shall be allowed to opt out (in writing) of this pension plan. Employer shall mean City of South Miami. Final average compensation shall mean the Participant's annual compensation, as determined by the Employer, a-_tJ-g in ­;f­ ­4 excluding accruals such as vacation, holiday pay, sick leave and compensation time averaged over the last three -year period ending on the Participant's retirement date, date of disability, date of termination of employment or the date of termination of the plan, whichever is applicable. For police officers, final average compensation shall mean the greater of: (1) The average of the Participant's five best years of annual compensation during the last ten (10) years of service or (2) The average of the Participant's annual compensation over the Participant's last three (3) years, as described above. Full time employee shall mean an Employee who works 32 hours a week or more on a continuing basis and is eligible to receive all benefits ... Participation date shall mean date of participation in this Plan by a Full time employee. Part time employee shall mean employees who work less than 32 hours a week. Part time employees are not eligible to receive a pension benefit though the City. Section 3. Section 16- 14(f)(1)(b) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of South Miami, Florida, is hereby amended as follows: Sec. 16 -14. Pension benefits and retirement date. (f) Optional forms of payment. Page 3 of 9 1 (1) A participant entitled to a normal or early service retirement 2 benefit shall have the right at any time prior to the date upon which the 3 first payment is received to elect to have the benefit payable under one of 4 the options provided in this section. The participant shall be permitted to 5 revoke any such election and to elect a new option at any time prior to the 6 receipt of the first payment. Election of the retirement option shall be on a 7 form prescribed by the board of trustees. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 b. Joint and last survivor option. A participant may elect to receive a reduced benefit for life and to have the same benefit (or a designated fraction of the benefit) continued after the participant's death and during the lifetime of a designated joint pensioner. The participant shall have the option of electing to receive the payment of a benefit of seventy -five (75) percent, sixty -six and two- thirds (66 2/3) percent, or fifty (50) percent of the participant's monthly retirement allowance to be paid at the participant's death to a joint pensioner designated by the participant at the time of or prior to retirement, such benefit to be payable during the lifetime of the joint pensioner. The reduced retirement benefit shall be the actuarial equivalent of the amount of the retirement compensation otherwise payable to the participant. A designated joint pensioner may be any natural person, but need not be the spouse of the participant. In the event that the designated joint pensioner dies, before the participant's benefit payments begin, this option shall be canceled automatically and a retirement income shall be payable to the member in the form of a life annuity as if the election had never been made. A retired participant may change his or her joint pensioner up to two times without the approval of the Board or the current joint pensioner. The retiree member need not provide proof of the good health of the joint pensioner being removed, and the designated survivor being removed need not be living. Any increase in liability to the Plan associated with the new designation, as determined by the Fund's actuary, shall be borne by the retiree. 37 Section 4. Section 16 -33 of the South Miami Code of Ordinances is hereby 38 amended to read as follows: 39 Sec. 16 -33. Membership of board; term; officers; meetings; quorum. 40 41 (a) There is hereby created a seven - member board of trustees of the city 42 police officers' retirement trust fund, which board shall consist of three (3) Page 4 of 9 I 2 C1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 um WIT elpJ01311110 MR •- - • • . • • • - - • 1A IRWIN -° - -- ii lwi ON INS M-NOW 0 .- .. • - • - •- . --• . • - • Page 5 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 proceedings of the board and shall comply with requirements of F.S. § 185.06(3). At each quarterly meeting a report detailing the assets and liabilities of the fund as of the date of such meeting shall be presented. All elections of the board shall be by a majority vote, a quorum being present. Three k34Eour L4Lor more trustees shall constitute a quorum. Trustees shall receive not compensation as such but may be reimbursed for any expenses related to board business. Section 5. Section 16 -37 of the South Miami Code of Ordinances is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 16 -37. Powers of board. The board shall have the power and authority as follows: (a) To invest and reinvest monies of the fund. In making such investments they shall be governed by F.S. ch. 185 relating to the investment of fiduciary funds, except that the allocation of assets shall not be less than forty (40) percent in fixed income investments at market. The board may, however, invest up to ten twenty -five (25) percent of the assets in international securities. (f) The board shall identify and publicly report any direct or indirect holdings it may have in any scrutinized company, as defined in Florida Statutes Section 215.473 and proceed to sell, redeem divest, or withdraw all publicly traded securities it may have in such company beginning January 1 2010 and shall thereafter be prohibited from purchasing or holding such securities The divestiture of any such security must be completed by September 30, 2010. In accordance with Ch. 2009- 97 Laws of Florida no person may bring any civil, criminal, or administrative action against the board or any employee, officer, director, or advisor of such board based upon the divestiture of any security pursuant to this paragraph. Section 6. Section 16 -42 of the South Miami Code of Ordinances is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 16 -42. Benefits. Page 6 of 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 No participant shall receive benefits from the fund in excess of the amount credited to his account. Subject to this provision a participant shall receive benefits as follows: (f) Death of a participant: Upon the death of a participant prior to retirement, there shall be paid to the beneficiary last designated by him all the monies credited to the participant's account plus four (4) per cent interest, compounded annually, for the period commencing with the December 31st immediately preceding, but not including, the day of death of the participant. In the event a participant dies on or after January 1, 2007 while performing Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act (USERRA) Qualified Military Service the beneficiaries of the participant shall be entitled to any benefits (other than benefit accruals relating to the period of qualified military service) as if the participant had resumed employment and then died while employed. (g) Change of beneficiary. Each participant shall have the right to name a beneficiary and to change his beneficiary designation from time to time. Any such exercise of rights shall become effective immediately upon proper execution of the beneficiary designation form provided by the board as a standard form under this plan. A retired participant may change his or her designated beneficiary up to two times without the approval of the Board or the removed and the designated beneficiary being removed need not be living. Any increase in liability to the Plan associated with the new designation as determined by the Fund's actuary, shall be borne by the retiree. Section 7. Sec. 16 -17. Termination of employment. 37 (a) If the employment of a participant is terminated except by retirement, 38 transfer to ineligible status or death, the participant's interest and rights 39 under this plan shall be limited to those contained in the following sections 40 of this section. 41 (b) Any such participant shall be entitled to elect Option 1 or Option 2, as 42 described below, except that Option 2 shall be automatically considered Page 7 of 9 I as having been elected by the participant unless Option 1 is elected 2 before the participant's normal retirement date. 3 Option 1: A cash payment of an amount equal to the aggregate of the 4 contributions made by the participant prior to termination of employment 5 with Gredoted interest Go ounded annually at the rate ef three (3) peFGeR 6 per d -ef -the year of payment to the first of the mon#�� 7 . Provided that police officer participants 8 eligible to withdraw their contributions from this pension plan may only 9 withdraw their contributions without interest. 10 Option 2: Pension benefits commencing on what otherwise would have 11 been the normal retirement date of the participant in an amount equal to 12 the greater of that which can be provided by the aggregate of the 13 contributions made by the participant prior to the termination of 14 employment, with credited interest compounded annually at the rate of 15 three (3) percent per annum from the end of the year of payment to the 16 date on which pension benefits commence; or an amount determined by 17 multiplying the amount of pension to which the participant is entitled in 18 accordance with subsection 16 -14(a) or 16- 14(b), whichever is applicable 19 by a percentage determined in accordance with the following schedule on 20 the basis of the length of credited service. 21 22 Section 8. If any section, clause, sentence or phrase of this ordinance is for 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, the holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. Section 9. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are repealed. Section 10. This Ordinance shall take effect upon adoption. ATTEST: •__►l PASSED AND ADOPTED this day of GWOC• _I MAYOR Page 8 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1St Reading — 2 °d Reading — READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM AND SUFFICIENCY: CITY ATTORNEY COMMISSION VOTE: Mayor Stoddard: Vice Mayor Newman: Commissioner Palmer: Commissioner Beasley: Commissioner Harris: W:\My Documents \resolutions \Ordinance Amnd Definitions per City Policy SMPP Compliance with 2009- 97 -Ordn rev final.doc Page 9 of 9 0 O V1 d < 0 O o 2 E a its E 0". 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