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File #: 2010-1245    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Veto was Overridden
File created: 12/28/2010 In control: Standing Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/30/2010
Enactment date: 12/28/2010 Enactment #: 42
Effective date:    
Title: Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title 2, Fiscal, creating a new Article XI: Dedicated Funding for the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund, to allow for specific funding to be dedicated to the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund with the goal of retaining local oversight immediately and into the future.
Sponsors: Darlene M. Harris, Patrick Dowd, Bruce A. Kraus, William Peduto, Natalia Rudiak, Douglas Shields
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 02 - FISCAL
Attachments: 1. 2010-1245.doc, 2. 2010-1245 VERSION 2.doc, 3. 2010-1245 VERSION 3.doc
 
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Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title 2, Fiscal, creating a new Article XI: Dedicated Funding for the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund, to allow for specific funding to be dedicated to the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund with the goal of retaining local oversight immediately and into the future.
 
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WHEREAS, it remains the intention of the Council of the City to dedicate irrevocably revenue to the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund between 2011 and 2041 for the purpose of providing adequate funding for the City's existing pension obligations; and,
 
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh must comply with Pennsylvania Act 44 of 2009 to create a revenue stream that will provide a minimum of 50% funding of the Comprehensive Municipal Trust Fund of Pittsburgh by January 1, 2011, or in the alternative, the City's pension fund would be taken over by Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System (PMRS); and,
 
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania Employee Retirement Commission (PERC) has made a determination that it would accept a present value of irrevocably pledged future revenue streams in order to attain, at a minimum, 50% funded pension fund,
 
 
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
 
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title 2, Fiscal, is hereby supplemented by adding a new Article XI:  Dedicated Funding for Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund, as follows:
 
CHAPTER 272: DEDICATED FUNDING FOR COMPREHENSIVE MUNICIPAL PENSION TRUST FUND
 
§ 272.01 SOURCES OF FUNDING
The City Council hereby dedicates irrevocably to the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund for purposes of Act 44 of 2009 the receipts of revenue from the Parking Tax for the years 2011 through 2041 to be calculated as a present value asset, according to the following schedule of annual payments:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year
Total
2010
 $                      -
 
 
2011
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2012
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2013
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2014
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2015
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2016
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2017
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2018
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2019
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2020
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2021
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2022
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2023
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2024
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2025
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
2026
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2027
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2028
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2029
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
2030
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2031
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2032
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2033
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2034
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2035
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2036
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2037
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2038
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2039
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2040
 $13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
2041
$13,000,000 $13,376.000
 
 
 
 $403,000,000  $414,656,000
 
 
 
§ 272.02 AGREEMENT WITH PITTSBURGH PARKING AUTHORITY
This Ordinance does not preclude the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Parking Authority from implementing Acts 763 and 36 of 2010 (Bills 2010-1026 and 2010-1027) at any time.
 
§ 272.03 GUARANTEE
Should the City's Parking Tax fail to generate the required revenue, the City pledges its full faith and credit to meet this obligation. The dedication of the amounts detailed on the schedule detailed in this Chapter is irrevocable.
 
 
 
§ 272.04 EFFECTIVE DATE AND SUNSET
This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon the signature of the Mayor, or ten days after the City Clerk provides this ordinance to the mayor for signature.  This Ordinance shall remain in effect so long as the funding is required to maintain the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund at or above 50% funding, and may only be declared ineffective by due legislative process following  (a)legislative creation of another source of dedicated funding deemed sufficient by the Pennsylvania Public Employees Retirement Commission; (b)legislative receipt and disbursement of dedicated windfall funding deemed sufficient by the Pennsylvania Public Employees Retirement Commission; or (c)fiscal and investment management and employment and retirement projections together deemed sufficient by the Pennsylvania Public Employees Retirement Commission.