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Council adopts contract amendment to require additional employee payment of employer CalPERS share
Summary
The council adopted an uncodified ordinance and related resolution to amend the city's contract with CalPERS, approving changes that shift a portion of the employer contribution to unrepresented employees and elected officials; the change takes effect in late April 2025.
Redding city council on March 18 completed the final step to amend its contract with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), approving an uncodified ordinance and related resolutions after a statutory secret-ballot election among affected employees.
The amendment requires classic, unrepresented non-safety employees and elected officials to pay an additional 0.876% of the employer share, bringing their total employee contribution to 10.1%. Classic unrepresented safety employees in tier 1 and tier 2 will pay additional employer-share amounts (1.73% and 1.62% respectively), producing total employee contributions of 19.23% (tier 1 safety) and 19.12% (tier 2 safety). City staff said the changes meet CalPERS— requirements for employer-share cost sharing and that a secret-ballot election among affected employees produced the necessary approval to move forward.
City staff said the amendment becomes effective 30 days after adoption of the ordinance (April 17) with implementation of payroll deductions aligned to the following pay period (April 27). Council adopted the ordinance in its required second reading and authorized staff to finalize the CalPERS contract amendment documents.
