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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1990.02.08 - 16818From: (4-73500-915-01-00-2077) To: (4-73500-915-01-00-2083) February 8, 1990 MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 90005 FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CAD DELL, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: TREASURER AND DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET - A REVIEW OF ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS AND REQUEST AUTHORIZATION FOR RETIREMENT APPROPRIATION TRANSFER AND ESTABLISHMENT OF RETIREMENT FRINGE BENEFIT RATES TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS in 1987 the County Board of Commissioners by Miscellaneous Resolution #87280 established the Retirees' Hospitalization Benefit Fund (70545) as a mechanism to actuarially fund the liability for vested future health care benefit payments; and WHEREAS the County has undertaken a systematic program to fund the increasing cost of providing medical benefits for current and former County employees, including imposition of a $136.00 annual charge to currently active employees, beginning in 1989; and WHEREAS the County's Actuary, Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company, has determined that the equivalent cost ($136.00) of funding the accrued liability incurred for Retirees Hospitalization for all retirees as of December 31, 1988 amounts to $1,080,942 and further indicated that a surplus existed in the retired life reserve equal to $8.6 million; and WHEREAS the Retirement Commission, at its June 29, 1989 meeting, approved the transfer of $1,080,942 from the Retirement Reserve to the Pension Reserve to fund the increased cost of providing medical benefits in lieu of a 2% improvement factor in annual pension payments; and WHEREAS the practical results of the Retirement Commission's action are to reduce the required 1990 County contribution to the Retirement Fund for funding pension payments thereby freeing these monies to be used to supplement funding for the increased costs of Retirees' Hospitalization Benefits; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners authorized the following budget amendment to the Fringe Benefit Fund to enable a transfer of $1,080,942 to the Retirees' Hospitalization Benefit Fund (70545) for purposes of funding increased costs for retirees' medical benefits for all retirees as of December 31, 1988. BY: Retirement Contribution Account $(1,080,942) Retirees' Hospitalization Account $ 1,080,942 -0- Dardel Canty Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee I move adoption of the foregoing resolution. FINANCE COMMITTEE H E:REpY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION jp4-mrretirefee February 8, 1990 Resolution # 90005 Moved by Caddell supported by Jensen the resolution be adopted. AYES: Crake, Ferrens, Gosling, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Law, Luxon, McConnell, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen, Pappageorge, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Caddell, Chester. (25) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted. STATE OF MICHIGAN) COUNTY OF OAKLAND I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on February , 1990 with the original record thereof now remaining in my office. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affled the seal of the County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 8th day141/FeblE4W;47, ,ReAy510- 1990 Lynix D. Allen, County Clerk