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Council advances restated pension ordinances as judge reviews retiree settlement; clean-up needed before final benefit changes
Summary
Council approved first readings of restated police & fire and general-employee retirement system ordinances to provide a clean legal basis for implementing a federal-court settlement that would restore a $400 monthly benefit to retirees pending final court approval.
Pontiac City Council advanced on first reading restated and amended ordinances for the Police & Fire Retirement System and the General Employees Retirement System (GERS), a step city officials say is necessary to clean long-standing ordinance inconsistencies before amendments tied to a federal-court settlement can be applied.
Mayor and legal counsel described the action as housekeeping that consolidates decades of piecemeal changes into single, up-to-date ordinance texts. City legal counsel explained the rewrite: "When we make a change...I would just call out a particular section and say I'm going to change that section and not redo the entire plan document. So tonight what you have…
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