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RESOLUTION NO. 6933
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA
VISTA URGING THE LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES TO ADOPT
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RECIPROCITY BETWEEN THE RETIREMENT
SYSTED~S OF ALL GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES IN THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA AND TO SPONSOR AND ENDORSE LEGISLATION WHICH
WOULD URGE ALL INDEPENDENT RETIREMENT SYSTEMS TO BECOME
CONTRACTING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMtENT
SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, the Federal government has conducted nationwide
studies which indicate two alarming facts of socioeconomics in the
United States:
1. That Social Security, although not intended to
operate as a pension system, is frequently the only
security which senior citizens have, and
2. That increased mobility of the American worker,
from white collar to unskilled, combined with deliberate
discharge and layoff practices in American industry,
results in a tremendous loss to the working man in his
pension rights and concomitant gain by industry through
accumulation of pension funds NOT paid to the workers,
and
WHEREAS, as a result of such studies, proposals have been
made that federal laws be enacted to secure vested rights in pension
systems to working men and also to allow for a transfer of those
rights to new employment positions, and
WHEREAS, it is apparent that such problems are not confined
to the private sector, but also exist specifically in the area of
public employment in the State of California, and
WHEREAS, employees of one governmental agency in the State
of California may not transfer their pension rights to another agency
unless both agencies are contracting members of the State Retirement
System, and
WHEREAS, there exists no reciprocity between independent
retirement systems and contracting members of the State Retirement
System, and
WHEREAS, such a situation severely limits job opportunities
for municipal employees who, for many reasons, both voluntary and
involuntary, may choose to relocate within the State in another agency,
and
WHEREAS, the constraints placed upon the employee by the
existing system also works detrimentally to the interests of the
municipalities themselves since they very often cannot attract~out-
standing candidates for employment because of the unwillingness of
employees to lose years of service toward retirement, and
WHEREAS, an ability to transfer retirement credits and
the establishment of total reciprocity between all of the retire-
ment systems in the State would be mutually advantageous to the
municipal employees in the State of California and to the munici-
palities themselves.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Chula Vista that the City Council does hereby urge the League
of California Cities to adopt recommendations to establish total
reciprocity between the several retirement systems in the State of
California by endorsing appropriate legislative action to bring all
independent retirement systems into the Public Employees Retirement
System of the State of California as contracting members.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk of the City of
Chula Vista be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to fprward
certified copies of this resolution to the League of California Cities,
each member of the Legislative Delegation of San Diego County, Board
of Supervisors of San Diego County and to the City Councils of all
of the cities in San Diego County.
Presented by
Approved as to form by
George Lindberg, City Atto ey George D. Lindberg, City Attorney
ADOPTED AND APPROVED by the CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF CHULA
VISTA, CALIFORNIA, this 3rd day of July ~ lg~g , by
the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen Scott, Hobel Hamilton Hyde E~dahl
NAYES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
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Mayor of the City of Chula Vista
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City Clerk `""'
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) /
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
CITY OF CHULA VISTA )
I~ , City Clerk of the City of
Chula Vista, Cali ornia, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above is a full,
true and correct copy of Resolution No. and that the same has not
been amended or repealed. DATED
City Clerk
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