FROM: Colin Bishop, Chief of Member Services
SUBJECT: Returning Retiree Certification: Charles Abney
RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve the request to extend employment of Charles Abney from May 4, 2024 to November 1, 2025 because an extreme necessity exists to continue the retiree's employment beyond the 18-month limit, and thus the standards of SBCERA Board Benefits Policy No. 032 "Retirees Returning to Work," have been met.
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BACKGROUND:
The California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 ("PEPRA") provides specific employment restrictions for retirees who return to work with an employer in the same public retirement system from which they receive a benefit. The SBCERA Board of Retirement ("the Board") policy on "Retirees Returning to Work" outlines the operating criteria under which SBCERA retirees can return to work with SBCERA-participating employers, while remaining in compliance with the restrictions set forth in PEPRA. Most notably, when an employer intends to employ an SBCERA retiree beyond 18 consecutive months from the commencement of his or her re-employment, the request must be approved by the Board.
Charles Abney retired on June 30, 2005 and was initially re-employed on July 16, 2011, in the Sheriff's Aviation Unit, prior to the implementation of PEPRA. The Board first implemented its policy on "Retirees Returning to Work" in 2015, and in the years since then the Sherriff's Department has requested and received various extensions for Mr. Abney's employment in accordance with SBCERA Board Policy, most recently when the Board approved his return to work from November 1, 2022, to October 31, 2023.
The Sheriff's Department is currently requesting an extension for Mr. Abney to continue working until November 1, 2025. More details on that current request are provided below. However, Mr. Abney continued to work after the end of his most recently approved reemployment date of October 31, 2023, with his last day working being Apr...
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