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Committee asks city attorney, retirement board to review home-rule petition on service buyback
Summary
Councilor Stephanie Infante presented a home-rule petition to allow limited credible-service buyback for municipal employees; the committee voted to request legal advice and actuarial numbers from the city attorney, retirement board, CAFO and personnel director and tabled the matter until those analyses are returned.
Councilor Stephanie Infante introduced a home-rule petition (Item 12726) proposing credible-service/time-buyback for municipal employees to allow restoration of limited prior service credit. Infante said the intent was to limit the ask to two years in the current draft and cited prior examples in other Massachusetts municipalities.
A resident and city employee, Ael Kano, described his personal circumstance and asked the committee to move the petition forward. "I'm here to request...for a home rule petition to be placed forward in order to have credible service buyback of two years of service," he said.
Committee members expressed concern about fiscal impacts and asked for formal legal and actuarial advice. Councilor Gregor de Rosario moved — and the committee approved — a request that the city attorney, the retirement board, the CAFO and the personnel director evaluate the proposal and return guidance; the matter was tabled pending that review.
Next steps are a city-attorney legal opinion and retirement-board actuarial estimates of cost and feasibility; the sponsor said she would remain available for questions and to revise the draft based on counsel advice.
The committee did not advance the petition to the full council at this meeting; it was referred for analysis and held in committee until those materials return.
