A8.506 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Charter, the Board of Supervisors shall have the power to contract with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System of the State of California to provide that the sheriff, undersheriff and all deputized personnel of the sheriff's department shall be members of the Public Employees' Retirement System, and the Board of Supervisors and the Retirement Board shall have the power to perform all acts necessary to carry out the terms and purposes of such contract. The maximum employee contribution for sheriff, undersheriff and deputized personnel of the sheriff's department shall be seven and one-half percent (7½%). Required contributions exceeding seven and one-half percent (7½%) shall be made by the City and County. However, the employee contribution for persons who become employed as sheriff, undersheriff and deputized personnel of the sheriff's department on and after July 1, 2010, shall be nine percent (9%). The nine percent (9%) employee contribution rate shall take effect immediately upon expiration of the agreement that is operative on June 30, 2010, between the City and County and the recognized bargaining organization representing said employees. All contracts and contract amendments with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System of the State of California for persons hired on and after July 1, 2010, and before January 7, 2012, shall provide, to the maximum extent permitted, that final compensation for service under the Public Employees' Retirement System plan will be calculated based on a two-year formula. Except as provided in this Section A8.506, on and after July 1, 2010, contracts and contract amendments with the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System of the State of California shall be cost-neutral and employee bargaining units shall be permitted to trade salary or other employee paid benefits to achieve cost-neutrality. The Board of Supervisors shall have the power to amend such contracts or contract amendments to terminate the participation of the sheriff, undersheriff and all deputized personnel of the sheriff's department for prospective service and to provide comparable benefits in the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System and to exempt such contracts or contract amendments from the cost-neutrality requirements of this Section A8.506, provided the sheriff, undersheriff, and the recognized employee organizations representing the impacted employees agree. The Board of Supervisors and the Retirement Board shall have the power to perform all acts necessary to carry out the amendment of such contracts or contract amendments. For sheriffs assuming office and undersheriffs and all deputized personnel of the sheriff's department hired, on and after January 7, 2012, the Board of Supervisors shall have the power to amend its contract with the Public Employees' Retirement System and to provide retirement benefits for said persons in the San Francisco Employees' Retirement System in a plan applicable to sheriffs, undersheriffs and deputized personnel of the sheriff's department. The Board of Supervisors and the Retirement Board shall have the power to perform all acts necessary to carry out the amendment of such contract. Any person who shall become a member of the Public Employees' Retirement System pursuant to such contract shall have the right to be a member of the health service system and the Health Service Board shall make provisions for participation in the benefits of the health service system by such persons. (Amended by Proposition D, Approved 6/8/2010; Proposition C, Approved 11/8/2011)

SCHOOL DISTRICT AND SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Charter, the Board of Supervisors shall have the power to perform any and all acts necessary or appropriate to implement any provisions of the Education Code of the State of California which contemplate that teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District and the San Francisco Community College District shall not be members of the San Francisco City and County Employees' Retirement System but shall be members only of the State Teachers' Retirement System or which contemplate that such teachers may elect to be members of the State Teachers' Retirement System and not to be members of the San Francisco City and County Employees' Retirement System.

Registered nurses, hired and compensated by the department of health on a per diem basis, shall not be members of the Retirement System or subject to the provisions of the Retirement System by reason of such employment. Members of the Retirement System on the effective date of this section shall have the option to be exercised in writing on a form to be furnished by the retirement board and to be filed at the office of the Retirement System not later than March 31, 1988, to exclude compensation for per diem nursing as compensation for all Retirement System purposes. The provisions of this section shall be prospective only, shall be effective January 1, 1988 and shall not give any person a claim for refund of pension contributions prior to January 1, 1988.