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What Does That Mean for You?","publishDate":1551833690,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If all sides are declaring victory in the California Supreme Court’s pension ruling on Monday, it’s because the decision had a little something for all the combatants in the state’s pension wars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a much anticipated decision, the high court \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S239958.PDF\">upheld\u003c/a> a major rollback initiated during Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration—a reform that rescinded a long tradition that had allowed public employees to collect bigger pensions by inflating their years of service. Brown put an end to that tradition—known informally as “airtime”—in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court ruled that public employees won’t have a right to it anymore, a win for pension reformers. CalPERS has estimated Brown’s reforms, including putting the kibosh on airtime, will save government $29 billion to $38 billion over the next 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/4bbf40bf-2976-4241-bf6f-1c38232da6d3?src=embed\" title=\"Retirement Debt\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s a drop in the bucket compared to California’s overall pension obligations to teachers, firefighters, law enforcement officers and government workers—an unfunded liability of hundreds of billions of dollars—which the state, counties, cities and school districts are finding increasingly hard to manage. Pension reformers had hoped the court would open the door to bigger taxpayer savings by reversing a legal precedent called the “California Rule” that has long made it difficult to even limit the growth of public employee pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that, the victory went to labor unions, as the court sidestepped the California Rule question. But other benefits are also being challenged in court, so it ain’t over til it’s over, both sides say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Going On?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a>, also known as PEPRA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b05b9c14-3a19-4090-b8ae-8c5f9d153698?src=embed\" title=\"Supreme Court on Pensions\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argued that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” or ARS credit, is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">countered\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, they said, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with Brown on airtime, but did not take up the California Rule because, they found, airtime wasn’t covered by it as a contractual benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Does This Matter?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and local governments are facing massive retirement burdens. Unfunded liabilities total some $139 billion at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and $107 billion at the California State Teachers' Retirement System. There’s a concern that retirement obligations are starting to crowd out public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have only have so much money and more is going to pay for pensions and retiree health care for work that was done in the past, that’s less money for roads, schools, health care, public safety and all the other services Californians need from their government today.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/93ddb2d5-053f-410c-ba5e-e522dad634a5?src=embed\" title=\"Chuck Reed\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schools are a prime example. Despite billions more in state funding, much of the growth in education spending has been diverted to pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office say schools may need to use well over half of all new money to cover their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-teacher-pension-debt/\">growing pension obligations\u003c/a>. This is true even though the California State Teachers’ Retirement System has made investment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It means the status quo. Brown gets to claim victory on his pension changes, pension reform advocates will be able to argue that not every benefit need be forever, and labor unions will still be able to use the California Rule as a shield against sweeping change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a state employee, your benefits remain the same. The state stopped offering airtime in 2013, and new employees weren’t given the option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a taxpayer, you can take comfort in the knowledge that Brown saved you tens of billions of dollars and that the government workers who served you are enjoying the comfortable retirement you promised. Or, if you like, you can stew over the hundreds of billions of dollars in retiree benefits that you and your children will have to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But otherwise, little will change on the current pension landscape, including the legal challenges over Brown’s reforms. At least two PEPRA cases are in the pipeline. 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But other benefits are also being challenged in court, so it ain’t over til it’s over, both sides say.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Going On?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a>, also known as PEPRA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/b05b9c14-3a19-4090-b8ae-8c5f9d153698?src=embed\" title=\"Supreme Court on Pensions\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argued that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” or ARS credit, is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">countered\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, they said, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with Brown on airtime, but did not take up the California Rule because, they found, airtime wasn’t covered by it as a contractual benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Does This Matter?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and local governments are facing massive retirement burdens. Unfunded liabilities total some $139 billion at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and $107 billion at the California State Teachers' Retirement System. There’s a concern that retirement obligations are starting to crowd out public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have only have so much money and more is going to pay for pensions and retiree health care for work that was done in the past, that’s less money for roads, schools, health care, public safety and all the other services Californians need from their government today.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/93ddb2d5-053f-410c-ba5e-e522dad634a5?src=embed\" title=\"Chuck Reed\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schools are a prime example. Despite billions more in state funding, much of the growth in education spending has been diverted to pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst’s Office say schools may need to use well over half of all new money to cover their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-teacher-pension-debt/\">growing pension obligations\u003c/a>. This is true even though the California State Teachers’ Retirement System has made investment gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happens Now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It means the status quo. Brown gets to claim victory on his pension changes, pension reform advocates will be able to argue that not every benefit need be forever, and labor unions will still be able to use the California Rule as a shield against sweeping change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a state employee, your benefits remain the same. The state stopped offering airtime in 2013, and new employees weren’t given the option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a taxpayer, you can take comfort in the knowledge that Brown saved you tens of billions of dollars and that the government workers who served you are enjoying the comfortable retirement you promised. Or, if you like, you can stew over the hundreds of billions of dollars in retiree benefits that you and your children will have to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But otherwise, little will change on the current pension landscape, including the legal challenges over Brown’s reforms. At least two PEPRA cases are in the pipeline. No briefing dates have been scheduled yet.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11730837/everyone-is-saying-they-just-won-a-big-court-case-on-pensions-what-does-that-mean-for-you","authors":["byline_news_11730837"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2783","news_30","news_118"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11730848","label":"source_news_11730837"},"news_11378925":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11378925","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11378925","score":null,"sort":[1490686222000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump","title":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump","publishDate":1490686222,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the 1980s, California effectively withheld investment in South Africa to pressure leaders there to drop its apartheid policy. Now, the nation’s largest public retirement fund is facing a similar pressure aimed at protesting President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is huge, valued at \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/forms-publications/calpers-at-a-glance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more than $300 billion\u003c/a>. Decisions on where to put its money give CalPERS potentially large leverage with companies and industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting has \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB946\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would encourage CalPERS and the State Teachers Retirement System to divest from companies involved in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/23/california-companies-vying-to-build-trumps-wall/\" target=\"_blank\">construction of a wall\u003c/a> along the Mexican border. Ting says the reasoning is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are corporations and corporations respond to money,\" he says. \"These are two of the largest investors in the world and that’s one of the only ways I think they would get the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"J8CN57MIgV2eJ0uBeuHsJT2Wt5FFIRpc\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is not alone in his thinking. Over the years CalPERS has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201702/invest/item06b-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">called on to divest\u003c/a> from coal companies, the tobacco industry, firearms and various countries, among other things. Ting says his bill sends a message that California welcomes immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer Wylie Tollettee says the fund is not in the business of making political statements. Instead the focus is on evaluating the risk and reward of investments. And Tollettee says CalPERS increasingly prefers to focus on engaging with companies rather than divesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Own the company, be a long-term holder, be an active owner, care about what that company’s behavior is in the marketplace,\" he says. \"You’re going to be much more effective if you’re an owner and have a vote of your shares with that company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Mitchell is a professor emeritus at UCLA’s Schools of Management and Public Affairs. He agrees divesting isn’t especially effective in bringing about corporate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially what happens is CalPERS sells the stock to somebody else who doesn’t have those particular interest or concerns and the stock price is largely unaffected,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says CalPERS needs to maintain a diverse investment portfolio in order to meet its pension obligations.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The election of Donald Trump is reigniting use of a protest tool used decades ago: divestment.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490722921,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":373},"headData":{"title":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump | KQED","description":"The election of Donald Trump is reigniting use of a protest tool used decades ago: divestment.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump","datePublished":"2017-03-28T07:30:22.000Z","dateModified":"2017-03-28T17:42:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11378925 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11378925","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/28/lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump/","disqusTitle":"Lawmakers Look to California Retirement Funds to Protest Trump","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/03/2017-03-28d-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11378925/lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the 1980s, California effectively withheld investment in South Africa to pressure leaders there to drop its apartheid policy. Now, the nation’s largest public retirement fund is facing a similar pressure aimed at protesting President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is huge, valued at \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/forms-publications/calpers-at-a-glance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">more than $300 billion\u003c/a>. Decisions on where to put its money give CalPERS potentially large leverage with companies and industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting has \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB946\" target=\"_blank\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would encourage CalPERS and the State Teachers Retirement System to divest from companies involved in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/23/california-companies-vying-to-build-trumps-wall/\" target=\"_blank\">construction of a wall\u003c/a> along the Mexican border. Ting says the reasoning is simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are corporations and corporations respond to money,\" he says. \"These are two of the largest investors in the world and that’s one of the only ways I think they would get the message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting is not alone in his thinking. Over the years CalPERS has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201702/invest/item06b-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">called on to divest\u003c/a> from coal companies, the tobacco industry, firearms and various countries, among other things. Ting says his bill sends a message that California welcomes immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer Wylie Tollettee says the fund is not in the business of making political statements. Instead the focus is on evaluating the risk and reward of investments. And Tollettee says CalPERS increasingly prefers to focus on engaging with companies rather than divesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Own the company, be a long-term holder, be an active owner, care about what that company’s behavior is in the marketplace,\" he says. \"You’re going to be much more effective if you’re an owner and have a vote of your shares with that company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Mitchell is a professor emeritus at UCLA’s Schools of Management and Public Affairs. He agrees divesting isn’t especially effective in bringing about corporate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially what happens is CalPERS sells the stock to somebody else who doesn’t have those particular interest or concerns and the stock price is largely unaffected,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mitchell says CalPERS needs to maintain a diverse investment portfolio in order to meet its pension obligations.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11378925/lawmakers-look-to-california-retirement-funds-to-protest-trump","authors":["11200"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20446","news_2783","news_1323","news_1852","news_118","news_20720","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11371499","label":"news_72"},"news_11318512":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11318512","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11318512","score":null,"sort":[1487233817000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"richmond-cuts-jobs-street-repairs-library-books-to-keep-up-with-pension-costs","title":"Richmond Cuts Jobs, Street Repairs, Library Books to Keep Up With Pension Costs","publishDate":1487233817,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When the state auditor gauged the fiscal health of California cities in 2015, this port community on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay made a short list of six distressed municipalities at risk of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond has cut about 200 jobs — roughly 20 percent of its workforce — since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any chance we can avoid it,” said former City Councilman Vinay Pimple, referring to bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major cause of Richmond’s problems: relentless growth in pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for employee pensions, pension-related debt and retiree health care have climbed from $25 million to $44 million in the last five years, outpacing all other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Judy Lin is a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a>, a nonprofit journalism venture in Sacramento covering state policy and politics. This story is part of an ongoing project involving the Los Angeles Times, CALmatters and Capital Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The city has cut roughly 20 percent of its workforce since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1487209038,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":1703},"headData":{"title":"Richmond Cuts Jobs, Street Repairs, Library Books to Keep Up With Pension Costs | KQED","description":"The city has cut roughly 20 percent of its workforce since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Richmond Cuts Jobs, Street Repairs, Library Books to Keep Up With Pension Costs","datePublished":"2017-02-16T08:30:17.000Z","dateModified":"2017-02-16T01:37:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11318512 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11318512","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/16/richmond-cuts-jobs-street-repairs-library-books-to-keep-up-with-pension-costs/","disqusTitle":"Richmond Cuts Jobs, Street Repairs, Library Books to Keep Up With Pension Costs","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/about/staff/judy-lin/\">Judy Lin\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CALmatters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11318512/richmond-cuts-jobs-street-repairs-library-books-to-keep-up-with-pension-costs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the state auditor gauged the fiscal health of California cities in 2015, this port community on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay made a short list of six distressed municipalities at risk of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond has cut about 200 jobs — roughly 20 percent of its workforce — since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any chance we can avoid it,” said former City Councilman Vinay Pimple, referring to bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major cause of Richmond’s problems: relentless growth in pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for employee pensions, pension-related debt and retiree health care have climbed from $25 million to $44 million in the last five years, outpacing all other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Judy Lin is a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a>, a nonprofit journalism venture in Sacramento covering state policy and politics. This story is part of an ongoing project involving the Los Angeles Times, CALmatters and Capital Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11318512/richmond-cuts-jobs-street-repairs-library-books-to-keep-up-with-pension-costs","authors":["byline_news_11318512"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_118","news_579","news_17286","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11318515","label":"source_news_11318512"},"news_123353":{"type":"posts","id":"news_123353","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"123353","score":null,"sort":[1389730241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds","title":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds ","publishDate":1389730241,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS7960_106397785-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The good news from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Employees' Retirement System\u003c/a>, the pension system that serves about 1.7 million public sector workers, retirees and their dependents: 2013 was a very good year for the fund's investments. CalPERS reported Monday that its portfolio grew by 16.2 percent last year, boosted by last year's runup in stock prices, and is now worth $282 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-calpers-investment-return-20140114,0,2189294.story#axzz2qNvNoJ1v\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, the gains are the latest turn for CalPERS' up-and-down fortunes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The results for 2013 capped a wild ride for the agency over the last 11 years. The fund was especially hard hit during the Great Recession of 2007-09. In 2008, amid the depths of the worst global economic slowdown in half a century, the fund lost 27.8 percent of its value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it has climbed back. In 2011, the fund's increase in value was a mere 1.1 percent. For 2012, the rate of investment growth was up to 13.3 percent. By early 2013, the total value of the fund officially surpassed its pre-recession high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS' overall rate of return for 2013 was more than twice the 7.5 percent minimum that the fund's board has said it needs to meet current and future obligations to retirees.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CalPERS performance actually was well below the major stock indexes for 2013, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average reach a record high and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rise about 30 percent for the year. CalPERS saw more modest gains because it is required to balance its portfolio with other assets, like bonds, commodities and real estate, which didn't perform as well as stocks last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the CalPERS report, though, looms the reality that the state's public sector retirement funds are still facing hundreds of billions of dollars in future retirement obligations that it hasn't yet figured out a way to pay for. CalPERS reportedly accounts for about $100 billion of the shortfall. The state's other major retirement fund, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, faces another $80 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press notes in a story today that despite Gov. Jerry Brown's promise to start tackling the state's biggest fiscal challenges, he's not yet proposing any specific action on CalSTRS. (The system is vital to California teachers because they don't pay into Social Security and thus don't get it when they retire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's Don Thompson notes the CalSTRS liability is \"a gap so large that the fund is projected to deplete all its assets in about 30 years. ... The deficit for the nation's largest educator-only pension fund is so huge it would cost teachers, local school districts, community colleges and the state budget a combined $4.5 billion a year to bridge. The California State Teachers' Retirement System says it grows by $22 million each day nothing is done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson also spells out some of the obstacles that must be surmounted to get CalSTRS back on track:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And unlike the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which covers a wide range of state and municipal employees, CalSTRS cannot unilaterally increase the amount it collects from state and local governments. CalSTRS contributions can be increased only if the Legislature votes to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalPERS plans to boost contribution levels again next month for the third time in the last two years, the 8 percent that teachers pay into the pension fund from their salaries has not changed since 1972. The 8.25 percent that school districts pay has not been altered since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state's share can vary slightly, it has hovered at 5.5 percent, including an annual cost-of-living adjustment — about $1.4 billion a year. The state's general fund contribution to CalPERS is projected to top $1.8 billion next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the pension funds' revenue comes not from contributions but from investment income. And that also is the cause of CalSTRS' problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dot.com boom led to the fund being fully funded by 1998, but the windfall prompted state lawmakers to increase benefits and decrease the state's contribution. CalSTRS Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes said the fund has been seeking an increase ever since the tech market balloon deflated more than a decade ago, but the bottom really dropped out during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration says the state cannot afford to absorb the full $4.5 billion annual increase because it would overwhelm other budget priorities. Paying $4.5 billion on top of the current $1.4 billion would eclipse state spending for the University of California and California State University systems combined, according to the legislative analyst. It calls the unfunded teacher pensions perhaps the state's most difficult fiscal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts \"should anticipate absorbing much of any new CalSTRS funding requirement,\" advises Brown's budget, while \"the state's long-term role as a direct contributor to the plan should be evaluated.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"CalPERS fund scored a 16 percent gain in 2013. Meantime, a crisis looms for teachers' pension fund. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1399488738,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":856},"headData":{"title":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds | KQED","description":"CalPERS fund scored a 16 percent gain in 2013. Meantime, a crisis looms for teachers' pension fund. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds ","datePublished":"2014-01-14T20:10:41.000Z","dateModified":"2014-05-07T18:52:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"123353 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=123353","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/14/some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds/","disqusTitle":"Some Good News, and Some Big Challenges, for State Pension Funds ","customPermalink":"2014/01/14/good-news-bad-news-for-states-big-pension-funds/","path":"/news/123353/some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS7960_106397785-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The good news from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Employees' Retirement System\u003c/a>, the pension system that serves about 1.7 million public sector workers, retirees and their dependents: 2013 was a very good year for the fund's investments. CalPERS reported Monday that its portfolio grew by 16.2 percent last year, boosted by last year's runup in stock prices, and is now worth $282 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-calpers-investment-return-20140114,0,2189294.story#axzz2qNvNoJ1v\" target=\"_blank\">the Los Angeles Times reports\u003c/a>, the gains are the latest turn for CalPERS' up-and-down fortunes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The results for 2013 capped a wild ride for the agency over the last 11 years. The fund was especially hard hit during the Great Recession of 2007-09. In 2008, amid the depths of the worst global economic slowdown in half a century, the fund lost 27.8 percent of its value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, it has climbed back. In 2011, the fund's increase in value was a mere 1.1 percent. For 2012, the rate of investment growth was up to 13.3 percent. By early 2013, the total value of the fund officially surpassed its pre-recession high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS' overall rate of return for 2013 was more than twice the 7.5 percent minimum that the fund's board has said it needs to meet current and future obligations to retirees.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CalPERS performance actually was well below the major stock indexes for 2013, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average reach a record high and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rise about 30 percent for the year. CalPERS saw more modest gains because it is required to balance its portfolio with other assets, like bonds, commodities and real estate, which didn't perform as well as stocks last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the CalPERS report, though, looms the reality that the state's public sector retirement funds are still facing hundreds of billions of dollars in future retirement obligations that it hasn't yet figured out a way to pay for. CalPERS reportedly accounts for about $100 billion of the shortfall. The state's other major retirement fund, the California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, faces another $80 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press notes in a story today that despite Gov. Jerry Brown's promise to start tackling the state's biggest fiscal challenges, he's not yet proposing any specific action on CalSTRS. (The system is vital to California teachers because they don't pay into Social Security and thus don't get it when they retire.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's Don Thompson notes the CalSTRS liability is \"a gap so large that the fund is projected to deplete all its assets in about 30 years. ... The deficit for the nation's largest educator-only pension fund is so huge it would cost teachers, local school districts, community colleges and the state budget a combined $4.5 billion a year to bridge. The California State Teachers' Retirement System says it grows by $22 million each day nothing is done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson also spells out some of the obstacles that must be surmounted to get CalSTRS back on track:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And unlike the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which covers a wide range of state and municipal employees, CalSTRS cannot unilaterally increase the amount it collects from state and local governments. CalSTRS contributions can be increased only if the Legislature votes to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While CalPERS plans to boost contribution levels again next month for the third time in the last two years, the 8 percent that teachers pay into the pension fund from their salaries has not changed since 1972. The 8.25 percent that school districts pay has not been altered since 1990.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the state's share can vary slightly, it has hovered at 5.5 percent, including an annual cost-of-living adjustment — about $1.4 billion a year. The state's general fund contribution to CalPERS is projected to top $1.8 billion next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the pension funds' revenue comes not from contributions but from investment income. And that also is the cause of CalSTRS' problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dot.com boom led to the fund being fully funded by 1998, but the windfall prompted state lawmakers to increase benefits and decrease the state's contribution. CalSTRS Chief Executive Officer Jack Ehnes said the fund has been seeking an increase ever since the tech market balloon deflated more than a decade ago, but the bottom really dropped out during the Great Recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration says the state cannot afford to absorb the full $4.5 billion annual increase because it would overwhelm other budget priorities. Paying $4.5 billion on top of the current $1.4 billion would eclipse state spending for the University of California and California State University systems combined, according to the legislative analyst. It calls the unfunded teacher pensions perhaps the state's most difficult fiscal challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local districts \"should anticipate absorbing much of any new CalSTRS funding requirement,\" advises Brown's budget, while \"the state's long-term role as a direct contributor to the plan should be evaluated.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/123353/some-good-news-and-some-big-challenges-for-state-pension-funds","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758"],"tags":["news_2783","news_152","news_30","news_118","news_2044"],"featImg":"news_123362","label":"news_6944"},"news_116260":{"type":"posts","id":"news_116260","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"116260","score":null,"sort":[1383066847000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-agencies-gamble-on-pension-bonds-and-lose","title":"California Agencies Gamble on Pension Bonds — And Lose","publishDate":1383066847,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-116264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Pensions-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond issued a $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999. Today, it owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. (Ramin Rahimian for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond issued a $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999. Today, it owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. (Ramin Rahimian for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desperate to cover a $40 million shortfall in its pension fund for retired police officers and firefighters, the city of Richmond, Calif., turned to an exotic loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of tightening spending after it issued the $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999, city leaders increased the retirees’ pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Today, Richmond still owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. To narrow that gap and cover the debt, the city is dipping into proceeds from a supplemental property tax on residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s fiscal approach has residents like Joe Bako scratching their heads. “When you’re short on funds, you don’t start spending more,” said Bako, 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public officials and investment bankers have portrayed pension obligation bonds as a good way to shore up pension funds. The proceeds can be invested in the stock market, reaping returns potentially higher than the bonds’ interest rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that gamble is not panning out so far for at least five pension obligation bonds issued by California public agencies between 1999 and January, an analysis by The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the City of Richmond Police and Firemen’s Pension Fund, agencies with bonds in the red include Merced County and the Pasadena Fire and Police Retirement System. \u003c!--more-->Average returns on investments also have not kept pace with net interest costs on recent bonds in two other California counties: San Diego and San Bernardino. Because those bonds were issued within the past six years, it is too soon to determine how they will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Moody's has downgraded pension bonds in Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since 1999, local governments and special taxing districts in California have sold more than $11 billion in bonds to shore up their pension obligations, according to the state treasurer’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by the infusion of cash from pension bonds, some municipalities have enhanced employee pensions or buttressed needs elsewhere by suspending pension contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is basically a principle where they’re printing money,” said Chester Spatt, a former chief economist for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a finance professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “These (bonds) strike me as irresponsible, especially in light of what we’ve learned” from the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds do not require voter approval and, by the time they are paid off, many of the public officials who approved them are long gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision happened before I got here,” said Bill Lindsay, who became Richmond’s city manager in 2005. “Applying hindsight to investment returns, I wish I could do that for my entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even after the downturn, and with growing knowledge of the risk involved, many governments continued to rely on pension bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five places in California where pension bonds are underperforming so far, the shortfall also warns of deeper financial problems, said Thad Calabrese, assistant professor of public and nonprofit financial management at New York University. Residents of such areas might face service cuts and higher taxes, he said – or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of negotiating with the unions and imposing pension reforms, for example, this is a way of kicking the can,” Calabrese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pension obligation bonds figured prominently in last year’s bankruptcy in Stockton, which issued $125 million in pension bonds in 2007 – after it had improved retirement benefits and compensation several times. Stockton’s invested pension bond proceeds lost about a third of their value in the stock market crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detroit, the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy because of a shrinking tax base, declining population and other factors, failed to realize expected returns after issuing pension bonds in 2005 and 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Credit rating agencies increasingly are downgrading the creditworthiness of public agencies with pension bonds, which can make future borrowing more expensive. Earlier this year, Moody's downgraded pension bonds in California’s Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, lawmakers in Pennsylvania prohibited the state from using pension obligation bonds, citing the financial risks. And the federal Government Accountability Office has warned that pension bonds can leave some governments “worse off than they were before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s first pension obligation bond was issued in 1985 for $222 million by the city of Oakland, Calif., with the help of Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Roger Davis, a lawyer who consulted on the deal, said it was pulled together by the then-city manager and Goldman Sachs, with assistance from his firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. It may well have been conceived, he said, to enrich the pension fund without adding to the debt load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, that was a safer bet. Public agencies could issue bonds at a tax-exempt interest rate and invest in annuities, in most cases guaranteeing a rate of return higher than the owed bond interest. The following year, federal legislation removed the tax-exempt option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of jurisdictions continued to turn\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to the bonds to cover raises and benefit increases given out in flush years. Then economic downturns sapped the investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case in Oakland, which issued another pension bond for $436 million in 1997 and suffered heavy losses when the stock market plunged 11 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debt deepened when the city took a 15-year break from making police and fire pension contributions. The payments resumed\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in 2011, but last year, the city issued\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>another pension bond for $212 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re on their third credit card,” said Alameda City Manager John Russo, who voted against the 1997 bond when he was a member of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current plan is to help balance the budget by taking another pension contribution holiday through June 2017. Budget problems also have forced the city to shed a quarter of its police force since 2008\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supplementary tax on property owners in the city will generate an estimated $68 million this fiscal year, said Scott Johnson, who until earlier this month\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was Oakland’s assistant city administrator. That will help repay some of the bond and the system’s unfunded pension obligations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel we’re in a strong position,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Councilman Nathaniel Bates was concerned about going into such deep debt to close the gap in promised retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But minutes of a 1998 council meeting the finance director reassured him that the $36 million in pension bonds would establish a reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates joined the council in a unanimous vote. Later, he also agreed to inflation adjustments for police and firefighters, which under the city’s charter meant increases also went to the roughly 65 retirees and spouses in the city’s police and fire pension plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through 2012, the return on Richmond’s pension investments averaged 4.9 percent, falling short of the bond’s net interest costs, 7.4 percent. The bond will not be paid off until August 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $2.3 million the city owes for debt payments on the bond this fiscal year would cover compensation\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and health and other benefits for 15 police officers. Meanwhile, lower-than-expected property tax revenue will force the city next month to consider slicing $3 million from this year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pension bond is not the only negative drain on the pension fix-it plan. Since the city issued that pension bond, police pensioners have received nine benefit increases ranging from 2.5 to 5 percent, and fire pensioners have received six bumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Pension obligation bonds issued by Richmond, Oakland, other cities have proved to be a financial drain. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Agencies Gamble on Pension Bonds — And Lose","datePublished":"2013-10-29T17:14:07.000Z","dateModified":"2013-10-29T17:56:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"116260 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=116260","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/29/california-agencies-gamble-on-pension-bonds-and-lose/","disqusTitle":"California Agencies Gamble on Pension Bonds — And Lose","customPermalink":"2013/10/29/california-pension-bonds/","path":"/news/116260/california-agencies-gamble-on-pension-bonds-and-lose","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-116264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/Pensions-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond issued a $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999. Today, it owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. (Ramin Rahimian for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond issued a $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999. Today, it owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. (Ramin Rahimian for The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desperate to cover a $40 million shortfall in its pension fund for retired police officers and firefighters, the city of Richmond, Calif., turned to an exotic loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of tightening spending after it issued the $36 million pension obligation bond in 1999, city leaders increased the retirees’ pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Today, Richmond still owes more than $12 million on the bond, plus about $5 million in interest, and its pension fund remains roughly $12.5 million short. To narrow that gap and cover the debt, the city is dipping into proceeds from a supplemental property tax on residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s fiscal approach has residents like Joe Bako scratching their heads. “When you’re short on funds, you don’t start spending more,” said Bako, 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public officials and investment bankers have portrayed pension obligation bonds as a good way to shore up pension funds. The proceeds can be invested in the stock market, reaping returns potentially higher than the bonds’ interest rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that gamble is not panning out so far for at least five pension obligation bonds issued by California public agencies between 1999 and January, an analysis by The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the City of Richmond Police and Firemen’s Pension Fund, agencies with bonds in the red include Merced County and the Pasadena Fire and Police Retirement System. \u003c!--more-->Average returns on investments also have not kept pace with net interest costs on recent bonds in two other California counties: San Diego and San Bernardino. Because those bonds were issued within the past six years, it is too soon to determine how they will perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Moody's has downgraded pension bonds in Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since 1999, local governments and special taxing districts in California have sold more than $11 billion in bonds to shore up their pension obligations, according to the state treasurer’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by the infusion of cash from pension bonds, some municipalities have enhanced employee pensions or buttressed needs elsewhere by suspending pension contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is basically a principle where they’re printing money,” said Chester Spatt, a former chief economist for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a finance professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “These (bonds) strike me as irresponsible, especially in light of what we’ve learned” from the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bonds do not require voter approval and, by the time they are paid off, many of the public officials who approved them are long gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The decision happened before I got here,” said Bill Lindsay, who became Richmond’s city manager in 2005. “Applying hindsight to investment returns, I wish I could do that for my entire life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet even after the downturn, and with growing knowledge of the risk involved, many governments continued to rely on pension bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five places in California where pension bonds are underperforming so far, the shortfall also warns of deeper financial problems, said Thad Calabrese, assistant professor of public and nonprofit financial management at New York University. Residents of such areas might face service cuts and higher taxes, he said – or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of negotiating with the unions and imposing pension reforms, for example, this is a way of kicking the can,” Calabrese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Pension obligation bonds figured prominently in last year’s bankruptcy in Stockton, which issued $125 million in pension bonds in 2007 – after it had improved retirement benefits and compensation several times. Stockton’s invested pension bond proceeds lost about a third of their value in the stock market crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detroit, the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy because of a shrinking tax base, declining population and other factors, failed to realize expected returns after issuing pension bonds in 2005 and 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Credit rating agencies increasingly are downgrading the creditworthiness of public agencies with pension bonds, which can make future borrowing more expensive. Earlier this year, Moody's downgraded pension bonds in California’s Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, lawmakers in Pennsylvania prohibited the state from using pension obligation bonds, citing the financial risks. And the federal Government Accountability Office has warned that pension bonds can leave some governments “worse off than they were before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s first pension obligation bond was issued in 1985 for $222 million by the city of Oakland, Calif., with the help of Wall Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Roger Davis, a lawyer who consulted on the deal, said it was pulled together by the then-city manager and Goldman Sachs, with assistance from his firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. It may well have been conceived, he said, to enrich the pension fund without adding to the debt load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, that was a safer bet. Public agencies could issue bonds at a tax-exempt interest rate and invest in annuities, in most cases guaranteeing a rate of return higher than the owed bond interest. The following year, federal legislation removed the tax-exempt option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of jurisdictions continued to turn\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to the bonds to cover raises and benefit increases given out in flush years. Then economic downturns sapped the investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case in Oakland, which issued another pension bond for $436 million in 1997 and suffered heavy losses when the stock market plunged 11 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debt deepened when the city took a 15-year break from making police and fire pension contributions. The payments resumed\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in 2011, but last year, the city issued\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>another pension bond for $212 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re on their third credit card,” said Alameda City Manager John Russo, who voted against the 1997 bond when he was a member of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s current plan is to help balance the budget by taking another pension contribution holiday through June 2017. Budget problems also have forced the city to shed a quarter of its police force since 2008\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supplementary tax on property owners in the city will generate an estimated $68 million this fiscal year, said Scott Johnson, who until earlier this month\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was Oakland’s assistant city administrator. That will help repay some of the bond and the system’s unfunded pension obligations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel we’re in a strong position,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Councilman Nathaniel Bates was concerned about going into such deep debt to close the gap in promised retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But minutes of a 1998 council meeting the finance director reassured him that the $36 million in pension bonds would establish a reserve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates joined the council in a unanimous vote. Later, he also agreed to inflation adjustments for police and firefighters, which under the city’s charter meant increases also went to the roughly 65 retirees and spouses in the city’s police and fire pension plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through 2012, the return on Richmond’s pension investments averaged 4.9 percent, falling short of the bond’s net interest costs, 7.4 percent. The bond will not be paid off until August 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $2.3 million the city owes for debt payments on the bond this fiscal year would cover compensation\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and health and other benefits for 15 police officers. Meanwhile, lower-than-expected property tax revenue will force the city next month to consider slicing $3 million from this year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pension bond is not the only negative drain on the pension fix-it plan. Since the city issued that pension bond, police pensioners have received nine benefit increases ranging from 2.5 to 5 percent, and fire pensioners have received six bumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/116260/california-agencies-gamble-on-pension-bonds-and-lose","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_152","news_118"],"featImg":"news_116264","label":"news_6944"},"news_90303":{"type":"posts","id":"news_90303","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"90303","score":null,"sort":[1361986363000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"retirement-systems-to-send-members-to-hawaii-summit","title":"Calif. Retirement Systems Sending Members to Summit in Hawaii","publishDate":1361986363,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/print/18817\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the head of one of the state’s largest independent pension funds received an invitation recently for his staff to attend a conference in Hawaii, his response lacked the aloha spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/27/retirement-systems-to-send-members-to-hawaii-summit/waikiki-beach/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90312\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90312 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/waikiki-beach-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Medioimages/Photodisc)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Medioimages/Photodisc)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t plan on approving anyone to attend this conference given its location. … Hawaii is just not the right message to send at this time,” William Raggio, interim general manager of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions, warned in an email to his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other pension plans couldn’t resist. Four of the state’s 24 largest independent municipal retirement systems intend to send up to five board members each, a survey by California Watch has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include the city of Los Angeles, as well as Contra Costa, Los Angeles and San Diego counties – which are short a combined $17.5 billion to pay promised retiree pension benefits, according to figures provided by the plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conference organizers expect about 1,000 pension trustees, money managers and consultants from across the nation to converge on the famed beaches of Waikiki from May 19 to 23 for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncpers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems\u003c/a>, billed as the largest gathering of its kind for public pension plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agenda shows most conference sessions end by early afternoon, leaving ample time for surfing, golfing, tanning or relaxing at one of the conference hotel’s five swimming pools. The total cost per attendee: $2,600 or more, by some estimates, including airfare, hotel, registration and other expenses.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference website supplies board members hoping to shore up support for their expenses-paid trip a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncpers.org/page.php?pageid=147\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Attendance Justification Tool Kit\u003c/a>.” The site also includes “7 Tips for Building Your Case for Attending the Annual Conference,” which suggests that trustees emphasize how the conference could help them “build a networking list” and identify ways to help “save your fund money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why pension officials needed a tool kit to rationalize their trip to Honolulu, Hank Kim, executive director and counsel for the trade association organizing the national conference, said, “In hindsight, maybe ‘justification’ wasn’t the best choice of words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of government spending – and some pension officials – say travel to exotic destinations by those overseeing ailing pension funds is unseemly, especially as taxpayers watch their public services diminish to offset growing pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no such thing as a free trip to Waikiki,” said Joe Nation, a professor of the practice of public policy at Stanford University, who specializes in public employee pensions. “Everybody loses; taxpayers will have to pay more, or beneficiaries will have to pay more, or a combination of the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nation, a former Assembly Democrat from Marin, added that the pension managers “would have higher returns and their beneficiaries would be better off if they were to forgo this trip or travel close to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference in Hawaii was planned and booked back in 2006, before the recent recession, Kim said. Still, organizers expect a strong turnout as trustees and money managers seek to gain an edge in a recovering economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to have discussions and network with pension officials from all over the country is one of the things that our members find most valuable,” said Kim, whose organization represents nearly 560 public pension plans nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions are to include “Avoiding a Front Page Scandal at Your Pension Fund: Learning by Example,” and “How Do We Transform the Way People Think, Talk, and Act about Pensions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Cabral, one of five board members from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cccera.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association\u003c/a> who plans to attend, said he doesn’t think current and future retirees view “my travel as a boondoggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are trustees who are trying to further their own personal wealth, who are looking for employment with money managers,” said Cabral, a board member since 1977. “But my job is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real big value is interacting with other trustees. It helps to get different points of view,” said Cabral, who also serves as president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO Local 512, a union that represents 300 employees in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fellow Contra Costa pension trustee John Gioia questioned the plan to send a large delegation using public funds, especially to a place like Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pension trustees should exercise self-discipline and consider public perception in deciding which conferences to attend, otherwise the pension board may have to set limits on the number of trustees it sends,” said Gioia, who also is a county supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full travel costs for most local pension board members attending the conference have not been finalized. Along with the five board members from Contra Costa County, attendees will include three from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcera.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/a>, two from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System\u003c/a> and one from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacera.com/home/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pension administrators in San Diego County estimate that they will spend a total of $7,950 to send three trustees: board Chairman David Myers, Vice Chairman E.F. “Skip” Murphy and alternate board member Tim Hancock. That includes airfare, conference registration and a five- or six-night stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Myers, Murphy and Hancock were referred to Brian White, the plan’s chief executive. Through a spokesman, White issued a statement that said: “California state law requires board members to fulfill an education requirement. SDCERA assists Board members in fulfilling this requirement to educate and continuously improve the knowledge and understanding of complex topics and trends involving the governance of a public pension fund. Educational seminars typically cover critical topics such as legal requirements, investing, and trustee ethics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those new training requirements went into effect in January. Under a law amended by the state Legislature last year, boards overseeing pension systems in 20 California counties must ensure board members receive 24 hours of education every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the more frugal pension plans encourage their trustees to attend seminars in state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to save money,” said Greg Frank, a management analyst for the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association, a $2 billion plan covering roughly 11,000 current and future retirees. “We give the trustees classes to attend that are local, in places like Berkeley. It’s real easy to keep it in California and keep costs down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said he did not believe pension board members – or, for that matter, groups of trustees – needed to travel to exotic locations to fulfill the new training requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Hawaii conference would fulfill the requirements, so do programs set up through accredited academic institutions in California. Educational conferences scheduled over the next two years include those in Napa, Indian Wells, Sacramento and Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think that running up travel expenses and hotel rooms was a requirement of getting educated,” Wieckowski said. “We’re asking the public to show fiscal restraint, the cities and counties and the state are providing less services, and people are paying more taxes. So you would think these decision-makers would reflect that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PENSION BOARD MEMBERS PLANNING TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Jeffrey Penichet, board vice president\u003cbr>\n- Elizabeth Greenwood, commissioner\u003cbr>\nExpenses have not been finalized. Penichet and Greenwood did not return calls and emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Herman Santos, chairman of the Board of Investments\u003cbr>\nHotel stay estimated to cost $1,139.60. Other expenses have not been finalized. Santos referred questions to Gregg Rademacher, chief executive of the pension plan, who issued a written statement: “While conferences are generally held in the continental U.S., we are fortunate that our 50th state, Hawaii, is easier and more cost effective to attend than policy and investment conferences on the East Coast, namely, Washington D.C. and New York city. Although the flight times are approximately the same for Honolulu and Washington D.C., flying to and lodging in Hawaii is consistently more cost effective (and safe). The best case scenario is having a world-class conference, such as a NCPERS conference, in your home town, however, that is seldom the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Terry Buck, trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Richard Cabral, trustee: registration is $650\u003cbr>\n- Jerry Telles, trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Gabe Rodrigues, alternate trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Debora Allen, trustee: registration is $650\u003cbr>\nEstimated travel costs for the board members have not been finalized. Buck, Telles, Rodrigues and Allen referred requests for comment to the plan’s chief executive, Marilyn Leedom, who did not return calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Diego County Employees Retirement Association \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- David Myers, board chairman\u003cbr>\n- E.F. “Skip” Murphy, vice chairman\u003cbr>\n- Tim Hancock, alternate board member\u003cbr>\nTravel estimated to cost $2,650 each. Calls and emails to Myers, Murphy and Hancock were referred to the pension plan’s chief executive, Brian White. A spokesman for White issued a statement that said: “NCPERS makes the decision on the location, dates and other elements of the conference. … NCPERS is a national organization and a preeminent resource for providing education to pension trustees and officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1399488803,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1641},"headData":{"title":"Calif. Retirement Systems Sending Members to Summit in Hawaii | KQED","description":"by Jennifer Gollan, California Watch When the head of one of the state’s largest independent pension funds received an invitation recently for his staff to attend a conference in Hawaii, his response lacked the aloha spirit. “I don’t plan on approving anyone to attend this conference given its location. … Hawaii is just not the right","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Calif. 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Retirement Systems Sending Members to Summit in Hawaii","path":"/news/90303/retirement-systems-to-send-members-to-hawaii-summit","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/print/18817\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the head of one of the state’s largest independent pension funds received an invitation recently for his staff to attend a conference in Hawaii, his response lacked the aloha spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/27/retirement-systems-to-send-members-to-hawaii-summit/waikiki-beach/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90312\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90312 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/waikiki-beach-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Medioimages/Photodisc)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Medioimages/Photodisc)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t plan on approving anyone to attend this conference given its location. … Hawaii is just not the right message to send at this time,” William Raggio, interim general manager of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions, warned in an email to his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other pension plans couldn’t resist. Four of the state’s 24 largest independent municipal retirement systems intend to send up to five board members each, a survey by California Watch has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include the city of Los Angeles, as well as Contra Costa, Los Angeles and San Diego counties – which are short a combined $17.5 billion to pay promised retiree pension benefits, according to figures provided by the plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conference organizers expect about 1,000 pension trustees, money managers and consultants from across the nation to converge on the famed beaches of Waikiki from May 19 to 23 for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncpers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems\u003c/a>, billed as the largest gathering of its kind for public pension plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agenda shows most conference sessions end by early afternoon, leaving ample time for surfing, golfing, tanning or relaxing at one of the conference hotel’s five swimming pools. The total cost per attendee: $2,600 or more, by some estimates, including airfare, hotel, registration and other expenses.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference website supplies board members hoping to shore up support for their expenses-paid trip a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncpers.org/page.php?pageid=147\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Attendance Justification Tool Kit\u003c/a>.” The site also includes “7 Tips for Building Your Case for Attending the Annual Conference,” which suggests that trustees emphasize how the conference could help them “build a networking list” and identify ways to help “save your fund money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why pension officials needed a tool kit to rationalize their trip to Honolulu, Hank Kim, executive director and counsel for the trade association organizing the national conference, said, “In hindsight, maybe ‘justification’ wasn’t the best choice of words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of government spending – and some pension officials – say travel to exotic destinations by those overseeing ailing pension funds is unseemly, especially as taxpayers watch their public services diminish to offset growing pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no such thing as a free trip to Waikiki,” said Joe Nation, a professor of the practice of public policy at Stanford University, who specializes in public employee pensions. “Everybody loses; taxpayers will have to pay more, or beneficiaries will have to pay more, or a combination of the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nation, a former Assembly Democrat from Marin, added that the pension managers “would have higher returns and their beneficiaries would be better off if they were to forgo this trip or travel close to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference in Hawaii was planned and booked back in 2006, before the recent recession, Kim said. Still, organizers expect a strong turnout as trustees and money managers seek to gain an edge in a recovering economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to have discussions and network with pension officials from all over the country is one of the things that our members find most valuable,” said Kim, whose organization represents nearly 560 public pension plans nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions are to include “Avoiding a Front Page Scandal at Your Pension Fund: Learning by Example,” and “How Do We Transform the Way People Think, Talk, and Act about Pensions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Cabral, one of five board members from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cccera.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association\u003c/a> who plans to attend, said he doesn’t think current and future retirees view “my travel as a boondoggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are trustees who are trying to further their own personal wealth, who are looking for employment with money managers,” said Cabral, a board member since 1977. “But my job is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real big value is interacting with other trustees. It helps to get different points of view,” said Cabral, who also serves as president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO Local 512, a union that represents 300 employees in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fellow Contra Costa pension trustee John Gioia questioned the plan to send a large delegation using public funds, especially to a place like Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pension trustees should exercise self-discipline and consider public perception in deciding which conferences to attend, otherwise the pension board may have to set limits on the number of trustees it sends,” said Gioia, who also is a county supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full travel costs for most local pension board members attending the conference have not been finalized. Along with the five board members from Contra Costa County, attendees will include three from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcera.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/a>, two from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System\u003c/a> and one from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacera.com/home/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pension administrators in San Diego County estimate that they will spend a total of $7,950 to send three trustees: board Chairman David Myers, Vice Chairman E.F. “Skip” Murphy and alternate board member Tim Hancock. That includes airfare, conference registration and a five- or six-night stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Myers, Murphy and Hancock were referred to Brian White, the plan’s chief executive. Through a spokesman, White issued a statement that said: “California state law requires board members to fulfill an education requirement. SDCERA assists Board members in fulfilling this requirement to educate and continuously improve the knowledge and understanding of complex topics and trends involving the governance of a public pension fund. Educational seminars typically cover critical topics such as legal requirements, investing, and trustee ethics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those new training requirements went into effect in January. Under a law amended by the state Legislature last year, boards overseeing pension systems in 20 California counties must ensure board members receive 24 hours of education every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the more frugal pension plans encourage their trustees to attend seminars in state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to save money,” said Greg Frank, a management analyst for the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association, a $2 billion plan covering roughly 11,000 current and future retirees. “We give the trustees classes to attend that are local, in places like Berkeley. It’s real easy to keep it in California and keep costs down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said he did not believe pension board members – or, for that matter, groups of trustees – needed to travel to exotic locations to fulfill the new training requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Hawaii conference would fulfill the requirements, so do programs set up through accredited academic institutions in California. Educational conferences scheduled over the next two years include those in Napa, Indian Wells, Sacramento and Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think that running up travel expenses and hotel rooms was a requirement of getting educated,” Wieckowski said. “We’re asking the public to show fiscal restraint, the cities and counties and the state are providing less services, and people are paying more taxes. So you would think these decision-makers would reflect that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PENSION BOARD MEMBERS PLANNING TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Jeffrey Penichet, board vice president\u003cbr>\n- Elizabeth Greenwood, commissioner\u003cbr>\nExpenses have not been finalized. Penichet and Greenwood did not return calls and emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Herman Santos, chairman of the Board of Investments\u003cbr>\nHotel stay estimated to cost $1,139.60. Other expenses have not been finalized. Santos referred questions to Gregg Rademacher, chief executive of the pension plan, who issued a written statement: “While conferences are generally held in the continental U.S., we are fortunate that our 50th state, Hawaii, is easier and more cost effective to attend than policy and investment conferences on the East Coast, namely, Washington D.C. and New York city. Although the flight times are approximately the same for Honolulu and Washington D.C., flying to and lodging in Hawaii is consistently more cost effective (and safe). The best case scenario is having a world-class conference, such as a NCPERS conference, in your home town, however, that is seldom the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Terry Buck, trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Richard Cabral, trustee: registration is $650\u003cbr>\n- Jerry Telles, trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Gabe Rodrigues, alternate trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Debora Allen, trustee: registration is $650\u003cbr>\nEstimated travel costs for the board members have not been finalized. Buck, Telles, Rodrigues and Allen referred requests for comment to the plan’s chief executive, Marilyn Leedom, who did not return calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Diego County Employees Retirement Association \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- David Myers, board chairman\u003cbr>\n- E.F. “Skip” Murphy, vice chairman\u003cbr>\n- Tim Hancock, alternate board member\u003cbr>\nTravel estimated to cost $2,650 each. Calls and emails to Myers, Murphy and Hancock were referred to the pension plan’s chief executive, Brian White. A spokesman for White issued a statement that said: “NCPERS makes the decision on the location, dates and other elements of the conference. … NCPERS is a national organization and a preeminent resource for providing education to pension trustees and officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/90303/retirement-systems-to-send-members-to-hawaii-summit","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_18540"],"tags":["news_1019","news_908","news_118","news_3735"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_86019":{"type":"posts","id":"news_86019","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"86019","score":null,"sort":[1358454422000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"can-state-employees-work-2-jobs-at-once","title":"Can State Employees Work 2 Jobs At Once?","publishDate":1358454422,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86030\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some managers at CalPERS, the California state retirement system, are working two jobs there. Is that legal? CalPERS spokespeople say the agency is doing nothing wrong, but the practice has raised eyebrows among some experts in state regulations, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/17/5120460/some-calpers-managers-given-second.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the agency says it hired some managers to do double duty when it was implementing a new computer system and needed people to test it, as well as to catch up on a backlog of other tasks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After first exhausting a number of resource options including voluntary overtime, mandatory overtime, seasonal clerks, students, retired annuitants, arduous pay and other compensation options, CalPERS then appointed some skilled and experienced staff - at the manager and rank and file levels - to Additional Appointments to accomplish additional work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But experts interviewed by the Bee are questioning the practice because, unlike rank-and-file workers, salaried employees don't normally get paid overtime. Instead they are expected to work more than 40 hours a week when necessary, then take compensation time off when their schedules are less busy.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts interviewed by the Bee say hiring the managers for extra jobs seems to deviate from this standard:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...state personnel experts contacted by The Bee say they've never heard of managers taking hourly positions in their own department. The practice, they said, may violate federal labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, said former state personnel director Dave Gilb, it circumvents the state's intent to set fixed wages for salaried management jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's giving more money to people who are not eligible for overtime,\" Gilb said. \"It's not right.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CalPERS says the practice was allowed by a specific regulation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> An Additional Appointment is when a state civil service employee is appointed to a second position in state service to perform additional duties. This is a permissible practice in State government dating back decades and outlined in California's Personnel Management Policy and Procedures Manual (Section 350) and a practice that has been used by other agencies.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>How much money was involved? The Bee reported the following information, which it attributed to CalPERS:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>CalPERS paid $45,000 in November to a total 50 managers, an average $900 each. It paid the wages at the rank-and-file job overtime rate, time and a half. The money doesn't count toward pension calculations, the fund said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now a spokesperson for the State Controller's Office tells us it is looking to see how much CalPERS and other agencies have used additional appointments. We'll let you know when he gets back to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1358470826,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":441},"headData":{"title":"Can State Employees Work 2 Jobs At Once? | KQED","description":"Some managers at CalPERS, the California state retirement system, are working two jobs there. Is that legal? CalPERS spokespeople say the agency is doing nothing wrong, but the practice has raised eyebrows among some experts in state regulations, according to the Sacramento Bee. In a written statement, the agency says it hired some managers to","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Can State Employees Work 2 Jobs At Once?","datePublished":"2013-01-17T20:27:02.000Z","dateModified":"2013-01-18T01:00:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"86019 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=86019","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/17/can-state-employees-work-2-jobs-at-once/","disqusTitle":"Can State Employees Work 2 Jobs At Once?","path":"/news/86019/can-state-employees-work-2-jobs-at-once","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86030\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86030\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some managers at CalPERS, the California state retirement system, are working two jobs there. Is that legal? CalPERS spokespeople say the agency is doing nothing wrong, but the practice has raised eyebrows among some experts in state regulations, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/17/5120460/some-calpers-managers-given-second.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the agency says it hired some managers to do double duty when it was implementing a new computer system and needed people to test it, as well as to catch up on a backlog of other tasks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After first exhausting a number of resource options including voluntary overtime, mandatory overtime, seasonal clerks, students, retired annuitants, arduous pay and other compensation options, CalPERS then appointed some skilled and experienced staff - at the manager and rank and file levels - to Additional Appointments to accomplish additional work.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But experts interviewed by the Bee are questioning the practice because, unlike rank-and-file workers, salaried employees don't normally get paid overtime. Instead they are expected to work more than 40 hours a week when necessary, then take compensation time off when their schedules are less busy.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts interviewed by the Bee say hiring the managers for extra jobs seems to deviate from this standard:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...state personnel experts contacted by The Bee say they've never heard of managers taking hourly positions in their own department. The practice, they said, may violate federal labor law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, said former state personnel director Dave Gilb, it circumvents the state's intent to set fixed wages for salaried management jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's giving more money to people who are not eligible for overtime,\" Gilb said. \"It's not right.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CalPERS says the practice was allowed by a specific regulation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> An Additional Appointment is when a state civil service employee is appointed to a second position in state service to perform additional duties. This is a permissible practice in State government dating back decades and outlined in California's Personnel Management Policy and Procedures Manual (Section 350) and a practice that has been used by other agencies.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>How much money was involved? The Bee reported the following information, which it attributed to CalPERS:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>CalPERS paid $45,000 in November to a total 50 managers, an average $900 each. It paid the wages at the rank-and-file job overtime rate, time and a half. The money doesn't count toward pension calculations, the fund said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now a spokesperson for the State Controller's Office tells us it is looking to see how much CalPERS and other agencies have used additional appointments. We'll let you know when he gets back to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/86019/can-state-employees-work-2-jobs-at-once","authors":["1367"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_18538","news_2783","news_152","news_19904","news_118","news_3735","news_1267","news_3734","news_3733"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_74720":{"type":"posts","id":"news_74720","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"74720","score":null,"sort":[1346268892000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-live-1-p-m-calpers-board-special-meeting-on-dems-pension-reform-plan","title":"Dems' Pension Reform Plan Now Up For Discussion","publishDate":1346268892,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Thursday\u003c/em> KQED's Rachel Dornhelm \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/08/30/106792/pension_reform_to_hit_municipal_employees?category=bay+area\">reports\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> The two biggest Bay Area cities are exempt from Governor Jerry Brown's pension reform. San Francisco and San Jose are charter cities, with their own pension plans and bruising pension battles. Just this week San Jose's city council enacted a two-tiered pension plan to help rein in costs.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is discussing the Democratic pension reform plan today. You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.onlinevideoservice.com/clients/calpers/\">\u003cstrong>watch here live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update\u003c/em>: This seems to be the headline coming out of the meeting, which is now over, at least on Twitter...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TheStateWorker/status/240911719273218048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS is a government agency that manages the state's pension fund. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/about/organization/board/members/home.xml\">board is made up\u003c/a> of labor representatives, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_officio_member\">ex-officio\u003c/a> members, and gubernatorial appointees. It has issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/eip-docs/about/board-cal-agenda/agendas/full/201208/special/item3-attach1.pdf\">preliminary analysis\u003c/a> of the main components of the plan, announced yesterday but yet to be voted on. As Ben Adler \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/08/29/106745/governor_brown_announces_pension_plan?category=bay+area\">reported\u003c/a> on KQED Radio today, the plan's \"proposed changes include higher retirement ages, reduced payments, and a requirement for employees to pay at least half of their pension costs.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation is expected to be taken up by the Legislature in the next couple of days. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News10 Sacramento's John Myers laid out the \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/capitol/article/207006/525/Brown-Democrats-strike-pension-reform-deal\">significant changes the plan is proposing\u003c/a> in a post last night: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Unlike pension changes in years past, this one would apply both to state and local workers -- the vast majority of government workers in California. And while most of the changes would focus on future workers, current employees would also feel the impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal hinges on three major changes: new pension salary caps, new cost sharing, and less retirement cash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It caps the amount of a public worker's salary that can be used to calculate a pension -- about $110,000 for general workers and about $130,000 for public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It pushes for an equal split of pension costs to be borne by government and by workers. And in a provision the unions are especially angry about, it would allow for a mandatory 50/50 cost sharing on workers who fail to agree to changes at the bargaining table after five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, it means less cash for future retirees after longer careers. Local workers would, like many state workers before them, see controversial pension enhancements enacted in 1999 rescinded. Future workers in local government would have to stay on the job until 67 to get the same benefit a worker now can get by retiring at 55; the shift for local public safety would be from 50 to 57 for a similarly sized pension. \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/capitol/article/207006/525/Brown-Democrats-strike-pension-reform-deal\">Full post\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Rachel Dornhelm talked to Brown labor secretary Marty Morgenstern today. He said the part of the plan that will require employee contributions will have to be negotiated with the unions -- but within a five-year deadline. Morgenstern said, \"At the end of that time, management has the right to impose that as a last best and final offer if they go through the bargaining process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican legislators, by the way, \u003ca href=\"http://walnut.patch.com/articles/huff-calls-governor-s-pension-reform-plan-foggy\">are not impressed\u003c/a> with the proposed changes. And unions, by the way, are \u003cem>really\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/unions-blast-gov-jerry-browns-pension-plan/\">not impressed\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's original proposal was harsher, but his fellow Dems balked, so the agreement between them is considered a compromise measure. As is the case with state and local governments around the country, the gap between California's pension liabilities and its available funds has been driving the \"somebody-do-\u003cem>something\u003c/em>\" debate. Last year, the Little Hoover Commission, a bipartisan state oversight agency, released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lhc.ca.gov/studies/204/Report204.pdf\">report\u003c/a> on the public pension system that started out this way...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s pension plans are dangerously underfunded, the result of overly generous\u003cbr>\nbenefit promises, wishful thinking and an unwillingness to plan prudently. Unless\u003cbr>\naggressive reforms are implemented now, the problem will get far worse, forcing\u003cbr>\ncounties and cities to severely reduce services and lay off employees to meet pension\u003cbr>\nobligations.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>...and then went into gruesome details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conventional wisdom is that Brown wants a pension reform deal in order to make his Nov. tax-increase ballot initiative more palatable to the electorate. Last month, Senate Majority leader Darrell Steinberg, discussing the notion that state funding for high-speed rail would eat into support for the tax measure (a notion later shown to be \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/08/22/gov-browns-tax-measure-ahead-in-poll-but-trouble-looms/\">accurate\u003c/a> in polling data), said as much when he told the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/05/local/la-me-cap-bullet-train-20120705\">LA Times\u003c/a> that \"the vote...will be seen in a broader context. We'll have pension reform, which is much more important to voters...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, apropos of pension reform, here's a pretty interesting \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_21400206/san-jose-police-department-losing-some-its-best\">Mercury News article\u003c/a> that contends the San Jose police department has been losing officers at an unprecedented rate partly because of salary and pension cuts...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[Police Chief Chris] Moore and union officials say... (a)fter pension reform and pay cuts, officers can make more money and better benefits elsewhere, even at smaller departments...Moore said that employee contribution of nearly 20 percent for pension and retiree health care, coupled with the 10 percent pay cut, is driving officers to look elsewhere. Since 2011, 79 officers have resigned, compared with 47 from 2007 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They all say the same thing,\" Moore said. \"I love the city. I love this department. But I can't afford to work here.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1346349325,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":886},"headData":{"title":"Dems' Pension Reform Plan Now Up For Discussion | KQED","description":"Update Thursday KQED's Rachel Dornhelm reports: The two biggest Bay Area cities are exempt from Governor Jerry Brown's pension reform. San Francisco and San Jose are charter cities, with their own pension plans and bruising pension battles. Just this week San Jose's city council enacted a two-tiered pension plan to help rein in costs. 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San Francisco and San Jose are charter cities, with their own pension plans and bruising pension battles. Just this week San Jose's city council enacted a two-tiered pension plan to help rein in costs.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Board of Administration of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is discussing the Democratic pension reform plan today. You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.onlinevideoservice.com/clients/calpers/\">\u003cstrong>watch here live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update\u003c/em>: This seems to be the headline coming out of the meeting, which is now over, at least on Twitter...\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"240911719273218048"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalPERS is a government agency that manages the state's pension fund. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/about/organization/board/members/home.xml\">board is made up\u003c/a> of labor representatives, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_officio_member\">ex-officio\u003c/a> members, and gubernatorial appointees. It has issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/eip-docs/about/board-cal-agenda/agendas/full/201208/special/item3-attach1.pdf\">preliminary analysis\u003c/a> of the main components of the plan, announced yesterday but yet to be voted on. 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And while most of the changes would focus on future workers, current employees would also feel the impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal hinges on three major changes: new pension salary caps, new cost sharing, and less retirement cash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It caps the amount of a public worker's salary that can be used to calculate a pension -- about $110,000 for general workers and about $130,000 for public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It pushes for an equal split of pension costs to be borne by government and by workers. And in a provision the unions are especially angry about, it would allow for a mandatory 50/50 cost sharing on workers who fail to agree to changes at the bargaining table after five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, it means less cash for future retirees after longer careers. Local workers would, like many state workers before them, see controversial pension enhancements enacted in 1999 rescinded. Future workers in local government would have to stay on the job until 67 to get the same benefit a worker now can get by retiring at 55; the shift for local public safety would be from 50 to 57 for a similarly sized pension. \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/capitol/article/207006/525/Brown-Democrats-strike-pension-reform-deal\">Full post\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Rachel Dornhelm talked to Brown labor secretary Marty Morgenstern today. He said the part of the plan that will require employee contributions will have to be negotiated with the unions -- but within a five-year deadline. Morgenstern said, \"At the end of that time, management has the right to impose that as a last best and final offer if they go through the bargaining process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican legislators, by the way, \u003ca href=\"http://walnut.patch.com/articles/huff-calls-governor-s-pension-reform-plan-foggy\">are not impressed\u003c/a> with the proposed changes. And unions, by the way, are \u003cem>really\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/unions-blast-gov-jerry-browns-pension-plan/\">not impressed\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's original proposal was harsher, but his fellow Dems balked, so the agreement between them is considered a compromise measure. As is the case with state and local governments around the country, the gap between California's pension liabilities and its available funds has been driving the \"somebody-do-\u003cem>something\u003c/em>\" debate. Last year, the Little Hoover Commission, a bipartisan state oversight agency, released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lhc.ca.gov/studies/204/Report204.pdf\">report\u003c/a> on the public pension system that started out this way...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s pension plans are dangerously underfunded, the result of overly generous\u003cbr>\nbenefit promises, wishful thinking and an unwillingness to plan prudently. Unless\u003cbr>\naggressive reforms are implemented now, the problem will get far worse, forcing\u003cbr>\ncounties and cities to severely reduce services and lay off employees to meet pension\u003cbr>\nobligations.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>...and then went into gruesome details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conventional wisdom is that Brown wants a pension reform deal in order to make his Nov. tax-increase ballot initiative more palatable to the electorate. Last month, Senate Majority leader Darrell Steinberg, discussing the notion that state funding for high-speed rail would eat into support for the tax measure (a notion later shown to be \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/08/22/gov-browns-tax-measure-ahead-in-poll-but-trouble-looms/\">accurate\u003c/a> in polling data), said as much when he told the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/05/local/la-me-cap-bullet-train-20120705\">LA Times\u003c/a> that \"the vote...will be seen in a broader context. 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Since 2011, 79 officers have resigned, compared with 47 from 2007 to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They all say the same thing,\" Moore said. \"I love the city. I love this department. But I can't afford to work here.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/74720/watch-live-1-p-m-calpers-board-special-meeting-on-dems-pension-reform-plan","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_908","news_118","news_71"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_69462":{"type":"posts","id":"news_69462","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"69462","score":null,"sort":[1341347438000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gov-jerry-brown-asks-for-more-time-on-ca-pensions","title":"Gov. Jerry Brown Asks for More Time on Calif. 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Jerry Brown (Getty/Max Whittaker)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Brown issued a comprehensive proposal last fall, Democratic leaders only sent him their plan on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's spokesman Gil Duran says the governor ``could not agree to some of the changes in the pension counterproposal.'' He says such complex issues cannot be resolved by the end of this week, when lawmakers take a monthlong recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor wants to increase the retirement age from 55 to 67 for new, non-public safety employees and have local and state government workers pay more toward their pensions and retiree health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's proposal would put new workers in a hybrid plan that includes 401(k)-style accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego and San Jose recently passed changes.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1341517397,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":149},"headData":{"title":"Gov. Jerry Brown Asks for More Time on Calif. Pensions | KQED","description":"by Judy Lin Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. 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Jerry Brown is asking for more time to negotiate public pension reform with state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/jerry-brown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-69484\" title=\"jerry-brown\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/jerry-brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Jerry Brown (Getty/Max Whittaker)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Brown issued a comprehensive proposal last fall, Democratic leaders only sent him their plan on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's spokesman Gil Duran says the governor ``could not agree to some of the changes in the pension counterproposal.'' He says such complex issues cannot be resolved by the end of this week, when lawmakers take a monthlong recess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor wants to increase the retirement age from 55 to 67 for new, non-public safety employees and have local and state government workers pay more toward their pensions and retiree health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's proposal would put new workers in a hybrid plan that includes 401(k)-style accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego and San Jose recently passed changes.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/69462/gov-jerry-brown-asks-for-more-time-on-ca-pensions","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"tags":["news_18538","news_152","news_2582","news_19904","news_118","news_2668","news_2669"],"label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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