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Supervisor Farrell introduces charter amendment to pre-fund $4.4 billion retiree health liability

3006014 · April 16, 2025
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Supervisor Farrell introduced a charter amendment to move San Francisco from a pay-as-you-go model to a prefunded retiree health care trust that he says would eliminate a $4.4 billion unfunded liability over about 30 years while capping employee contributions at 10% of payroll.

Supervisor Farrell introduced a charter amendment on May 7 aiming to change how San Francisco pays for retiree health benefits, which he said currently represent an unfunded liability of about $4.4 billion.

Farrell told the Board that the city now pays retiree health benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis and that less than 1 percent of the $4.4 billion liability has been prefunded. He…

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