HomeMy WebLinkAbout14 of 1976 - A resolution requesting that Governor Calvin L. Rampton veto Senate Bill 50 and request the Legislat Resolution No. 14
By Ted L. Wilson. Mayor
COMMISSIONER
Requesting that Governor Calvin L.
Rampton veto Senate Bill 50 and
request the Legislature to pass
legislation which makes contributions
I and benefit payments consistent with
each other.
Presented to the Board of Commissioners
AND PASSED
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RESOLUTION
Result
WHEREAS, the Utah Legislature passed S. B. 50 providing that retirement
benefits shall be based only upon base salary, excluding overtime and other
benefits; and
WHEREAS, contributions to the fund as based upon "all salary, wage and
overtime payments" paid to the employee [S 49-11-8(22), Utah Code Ann. 1953];
and
WHEREAS, the language "nor shall the contributions paid by the employer
and employee to the retirement systems be based upon any of the aforementioned
special payments to the last year of service" is completely vague and ambig-
uous. As such the bill raises, among others, the following questions and
problems:
1. Is it only in the last year of a person's employment that
contributions are not deducted and if so, does such a payment system
violate the equal protection clause of the State and Federal con-
stitutions?
2. It is not fair to require contributions on earnings of a
worker when those contributions will not be used to compute his
retirement pay. This formula hurts employee morale, undermines
their efficiency, and takes money without giving the appropriate
benefit to those who earned the money, contrary to the design and
intent of the whole Retirement Act.
3. It is not possible for an employer or employee to completely
anticipate which year of employment will be the last year, since
there are so many unforeseeable circumstances; and
WHEREAS, the bill is having a negative impact upon the morale of the
employees of Salt Lake City.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City respectfully
requires the Honorable Calvin L. Rampton to veto S. B. 50 with the request to
the Legislature to pass legislation which makes contributions and benefit
payments consistent with each other.
TED L. WILSON, MAYOR
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HERMAN G N, COMMISSIONEI
(ABSENT)
JENNINGS PHILLIPS, JR. COMMISSIONE