HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-43 - Requesting the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) Amend the Contract Between the City of Newport Beach and the Board of Administration of Calpers to Reduce or Eliminate Cost Sharing Pursuant to Government Code Section 20516RESOLUTION NO. 2025-43
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA REQUESTING
THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT
SYSTEM (CALPERS) AMEND THE CONTRACT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AND THE
BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION OF CALPERS TO
REDUCE OR ELIMINATE COST SHARING PURSUANT
TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 20516(a) FOR CITY
MISCELLANEOUS TIER I EMPLOYEES CITYWIDE
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach ("City") has entered
into good faith labor negotiations with the City's bargaining groups (collectively
"Associations") that represent City Miscellaneous Tier I employees;
WHEREAS, based on the negotiations with the Associations, the City has entered
into agreements and tentative agreements with most of the Associations to reduce or
eliminate the amount of employee cost sharing of the employer retirement contributions;
WHEREAS, the City anticipates reaching agreements or tentative agreements
with the remaining Associations soon;
WHEREAS, the City Council will be considering amending the Compensation
Plan, which outlines the salary and benefits for the unrepresented Key and Management
Employees, amending employment agreements, and taking other actions that will impact
the terms and conditions of employment for unrepresented City Miscellaneous Tier I
employees soon;
WHEREAS, for all employees who will continue to share costs, the cost sharing
will be through collective bargaining agreements pursuant to Government Code Section
20516(f);
WHEREAS, the City has been informed by the California Public Employees'
Retirement System ("CaIPERS") that modifying cost sharing under Government Code
Section 20516(a) requires a contract amendment with CaIPERS;
WHEREAS, the City is aware that processing such contract change is likely to
take at least a few months; and
WHEREAS, this is a matter of great urgency as the labor agreements with many
of the Associations are in effect or will go into effect imminently.
Resolution No. 2025-43
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NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council hereby requests that CalPERS initiate the process
to eliminate all cost sharing pursuant to Government Code section 20516(a) for all City
Miscellaneous Tier I employees, represented and unrepresented, as soon as possible.
Section 2: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
Section 3: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the substantive portion of this resolution.
Section 4: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the
activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the
environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378)
of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3,
because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or
indirectly.
Resolution No. 2025-43
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Section 5: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by
the City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
ADOPTED this 8th day of July, 2025.
ATTEST:
Molly Perry
Interim City Jerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
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Aaron C. Harp ,
City Attorney
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ; ss.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, Molly Perry, Interim City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify
that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2025-43 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
held on the Sth day of July, 2025, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to
wit:
AYES: Mayor Joe Stapleton, Mayor Pro Tern Lauren Kleiman, Councilmember
Barto, Councilmember Noah Blom, Councilmember Robyn Grant,
Councilmember Sara J. Weber, Councilmember Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
ABSENT: None
RECUSAL: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said
City this 9th day of July, 2025.
Molly Perry 1,
Interim City Clerk
City of Newport Beach, 7' i