O-2014-10 CITY OF CLERMONT
ORDINANCE No. 2014-10
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT,LAKE COUNTY,FLORIDA,AMENDING AND RESTATING
THE CITY OF CLERMONT FIREFIGHTERS'PENSION TRUST FUND,AS
ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 304-C; PROVIDING PLAN BENEFIT
REVISIONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS;
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS,the City of Clermont Firefighters' are presently provided pension and certain
other benefits under Ordinance No. 304-C and;
WHEREAS,the City Council desires to restate the provisions of the Firefighters'Retirement
Plan pursuant to the collective bargaining process;
WHEREAS, the bargaining unit; pursuant to the collective bargaining process, agrees to
allow the City to use one hundred (100 %)percent of the allowable annual Chapter 175 insurance
premium tax revenues as determined by the pension plan actuary to fund the normal pension costs of
this plan;
SECTION 1.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED,by the City Council of the City of Clermont,
Lake County, Florida that the following sections of the Firefighters' Retirement Plan Adoption
Agreement shall be amended to read as follows:
D. Salary
Means the fixed monthly remuneration paid a Firefighter;where,as in the case of a Volunteer
Firefighter, remuneration is based on actual services rendered, salary shall be the total cash
remuneration received yearly for such services,prorated on a monthly basis. The remuneration
paid a Firefighter by the employer for a plan year excludes bonuses. The amount of annual
overtime compensation that may be included in the calculation of the participant's retirement
benefit shall be limited to the first three hundred(300)hours of overtime paid per calendar year.
The amount of the accrued unused sick or annual leave payment at retirement that may be
included in the calculation of the participant's retirement benefit shall be the lesser of(a)the
total value of accrued unused sick or annual leave that would have been paid to the
participant based on years of service as of February 11, 2014 or (b) the actual amount of
accrued unused sick or annual leave paid to the participant at retirement.
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G. Benefit Amounts and Eligibility
Gl)Normal Retirement Date
A Participant's Normal Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month coincident
with or next following the attainment of age 55 and 10 years of service or attainment of
20 years of service, regardless of age.
K. Employee Contributions
Members of the Plan shall be required to make regular contributions to the Fund in the
amount of four(4%)percent of their salary/after tax, effective in the pay period beginning
February 10, 2014.
SECTION 2.
Any portion of the City of Clermont Code or any ordinance or part thereof in conflict with this
Ordinance is hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 3.
Should any section or part of a section be declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction,
such adjudications shall not apply or affect any other provision of this Ordinance, except to the
extent that the entire section or part of the section may in separable in meaning and effect from the
section to which such holding shall apply.
SECTION 4.
Plan benefit revisions provided by this Ordinance shall not apply to any plan member who has retired
prior to February 11, 2014.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall be published as provided by law,and it shall become law and take effect upon
its Second Reading and Final passage.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Clermont, Lake County,
Florida on this 11 to day of March, 2014.
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; 'arold S. Turville, Jr., Mayor
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ATTEST:
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Approved as to a -- -gality:
Di ' antzaris, City Attorney