Menands board adopts resolution electing police pension benefits under Section 384‑e

The Menands Village Board of Trustees voted Dec. 2 to adopt a resolution electing to provide pension benefits for police department members under Section 384‑e of the Retirement and Social Security Law, effective December 2024.

Speaker 4 read the resolution into the record and moved its adoption; Speaker 5 seconded the motion and the board approved it on a voice vote. As read aloud during the meeting, the resolution states that the village “does hereby elect to provide a pension benefit of section 384‑e of the Retirement and Social Security Law for any member of its police department covered by section 384‑d and 384‑e … as presently or hereafter amended.” Speaker 3 said the signed resolution will be forwarded to the state and that the effective date will be December 2024.

The election under Section 384‑e is an administrative step that formally extends a state‑authorized pension benefit to eligible police employees; trustees did not debate alternate benefit structures at the meeting. The board’s approval followed a brief discussion that the PBA contract had included the funding for the benefit but the formal election to provide it had not previously been executed.

The board clerk and chair will sign the adopted resolution and submit it to the state retirement authority as the next procedural step. There was no recorded roll‑call tally in the transcript; the motion passed on a voice vote during the meeting and was documented as approved by trustees.