Jackson County Missouri - File #: 4709

• File #: 4709
• Version: 1
• Name: repealing subsections jackson County Code relating to Employees Pension Plan
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/4/2014
• In control: Finance and Audit Committee
• On agenda: 12/8/2014
• Final action: 12/15/2014
• Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing subsections 1503.14, 1503.35, 1503.39, and 1503.45 and sections 1505., 1523., 1550., 1570., 1571., and 1572., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the Jackson County Employees Pension Plan, and enacting, in lieu thereof, four new subsections and five new sections relating to the same subject.
• Indexes: JACKSON COUNTY CODE, PENSION PLAN

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/15/2014	0	County Legislature	adopt	Pass
12/15/2014	1	County Legislature	Consent Agenda
12/15/2014	0	County Legislature	amend
12/15/2014	0	Finance and Audit Committee	recommend for perfection	Pass
12/15/2014	0	County Legislature	perfect as amended	Pass
12/15/2014	0	County Legislature	suspend the rules to consider final passage	Pass
12/9/2014	0	County Legislature	Go To 1st Perfection	Pass
12/8/2014	0	County Legislature	assign to committee

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
AN ORDINANCE repealing subsections 1503.14, 1503.35, 1503.39, and 1503.45 and sections 1505., 1523., 1550., 1570., 1571., and 1572., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the Jackson County Employees Pension Plan, and enacting, in lieu thereof, four new subsections and five new sections relating to the same subject.


Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 4709, December 8, 2014

INTRODUCED BY Dennis Waits, Theresa Garza Ruiz, Crystal Williams, Fred Arbanas,
Scott Burnett, Kenneth T. Bacchus, Dan Tarwater, Greg Grounds, Bob Spence, County Legislators


Body
WHEREAS, the Jackson County Veterans Task Force and Pension Plan Board of Trustees have both recommended that the Jackson County Employees' Pension Plan be amended to allow military veterans employed by the County to purchase a year of credited service in the Plan for each full year of military service, up to four years total; and

WHEREAS, it is also appropriate that certain sections of the Plan be amended to make clear the property right that Plan members enjoy in the Plan's benefits and the County's obligation to fund the Plan; and

WHEREAS, such amendments to the Plan are in the best interests of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of Jackson County; now therefore

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Enacting Clause.
Subsections 1503.14, 1503.35, 1503.39, and 1503.45 and sections 1505., 1523., 1550., 1570., 1571., and 1572., Jackson County Code, 1984, are hereby repealed, and four new subsections and five new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as subsections 1503.14, 1503.35, 1503.39, and 1503.45 and sections 1505., 1523., 1550., 1570., and 1572., to read as follows:

1503.14 Credited Service.
The term "Credited Service" shall mean the number of years and months of employment for which a Member is given credit for the purpose of calculati...