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Council committee considers home-rule petition to credit out-of-state police service for Boston detective Michael Sullivan
Summary
The Boston City Council Committee on Government Operations on Tuesday took testimony on a home-rule petition that would ask the Legislature to allow the Boston Retirement Board to treat five years of Michael Sullivan’s prior service with the Warwick, Rhode Island Police Department (Dec. 2000–Oct. 2005) as credible service when calculating his Massachusetts pension.
The Boston City Council Committee on Government Operations on Tuesday took testimony on a home-rule petition that would ask the Legislature to allow the Boston Retirement Board to treat five years of Michael Sullivan’s prior service with the Warwick, Rhode Island Police Department (Dec. 2000–Oct. 2005) as credible service when calculating his Massachusetts pension.
Why it matters: Allowing out-of-state public-safety service to count toward a Boston pension would affect recruitment and retention by easing lateral transfers for experienced officers; it also raises statutory and fiscal questions that the committee asked staff to study before forwarding a petition to Beacon Hill.
Michael Sullivan, a sergeant detective in the Boston Police…
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