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Wheat Ridge amends police pension rules to enroll recruits immediately and raise city contribution
Summary
City council approved an ordinance to allow police recruits to join the sworn police pension plan immediately and a resolution to increase the city's pension contribution to sworn officers to 12.5% while lowering normal retirement age to 50; changes are funded by forfeiture-release funds and aim to reduce administrative burden and align with IRS
Wheat Ridge City Council on Jan. 27 approved two measures affecting the police pension plan: an ordinance to permit police recruits to enroll in the city's sworn police pension plan upon hire, and a resolution to amend the plan adoption agreement to increase the city's contribution and lower the normal retirement age for sworn employees.
Deputy city management staff described the recruit change as an administrative fix. Under current code, recruits entering the academy are enrolled temporarily in the civilian plan for roughly six months and then moved into the sworn plan after graduation, causing extra paperwork and, in some cases, loss of…
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