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Council reviews code updates to police and fire pension definitions and purchase rules
Summary
Staff presented proposed changes to Lincoln Municipal Code related to police and fire pensions, including updates to the definition of total disability, language on cost-of-living adjustments and purchase of prior service credit, and procedural changes for disability and survivor payments.
City staff presented several proposed amendments to Lincoln’s police and fire pension code on Sept. 8 to update medical definitions, expand purchase options for prior service credit, and clarify payment procedures for disability and survivor benefits. The items were presented for council consideration; no final vote on the code text is recorded in the meeting transcript.
Paul Lutomski, police and fire pension officer in the City HR department, told the council the main technical change would update an outdated psychiatric reference in the “total disability” definition. The existing code cited a psychiatric manual from 1980 and a specific federal rating system; staff proposed replacing…
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