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Residents press council on pension cost-of-living review and boat mooring enforcement; city manager pledges follow-up
Summary
Retirees told the council they have received no cost-of-living adjustments since 2013 and urged action before the budget; another resident raised concerns about potentially derelict boats occupying slips. City Manager Brown said code requires a biannual pension review and staff will evaluate whether a COLA is warranted and will look into mooring enforcement limits.
Several residents used the public-requests portion of the May 13 meeting to press the council on pension cost-of-living adjustments and boat mooring enforcement.
Steve Griffith told the council the code requires a biannual review of the General Employees' Pension Board to determine whether benefits have been "seriously eroded" (he cited section 12-103 of the code). Griffith cited recent consumer-price-index increases (he…
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