CC - Agendas - City Council - REGULAR - 8/14/2018

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9.E.a was 5 years. Therefore, part-time employees who left the department or who were hired as full- timers did not receive the employer's matching funds when they terminated Plan membership. This resulted in the Plan "forfeiture account" growing until it reached its current balance of $190,000. The Plan forfeiture account is used to pay Plan expenses and also the Town's matching contributions for Plan participants, but the forfeiture account cannot be used for any other purpose. The committee asked for information related to whether this change would require legislation or if it could be done under the guidelines set up by the profit sharing plan. Tim Stratton, a tax attorney from Gust Rosenfeld gave his opinion to the committee that such a change would require legislation based on an old attorney general opinion as well as the fact that fire districts recently were successful getting legislation passed doing the same thing. There was a unanimous vote by the committee to forward this policy issue as a resolution to the Resolutions Committee at the League Annual Conference. The City of Yuma proposed Policy Issue 3. It proposes to establish a legislative committee to examine and explore resources for the Revolving Emergency Telecommunications Fund (9-1-1 funding). The 9-1-1 funding model established in 2001 for telecommunication excise tax had automatic reductions written in the legislation. It scheduled a drop in the monthly fee from 37 cents to 28 cents and ultimately decreased it to 20 cents a month by 2007. This is a 46% decrease in the monthly fee between 2001 and 2007 and, although technology has and is changing dramatically, the monthly fee remains at 20 cents in was formulated prior to the proliferation of smart phone mobile technology. Approximately 53 million dollars have been swept from the state's 9-1-1 funding source (Revolving Emergency Telecommunications Fund) since 2003. Approximately 18 million dollars is now collected annually and distributed to the 9-1-1 systems throughout the state. The annual collection has fallen short of the 9-1-1 system and public safety requirements and requests. The 9-1-1 funding is inadequate and the 9-1-1 systems, especially in rural areas of the state, are suffering. The committee discussed the issue and recommended that this policy issue be designated as a proposed resolution to be considered by the Resolutions Committee. The table below summarizes the GAHRE Committee's actions: Policy Issue Disposition by Committee 1 Campaign Funds Transfer Resolution GAHRE 1 2 Volunteer Firefighter Excess Funds Resolution GAHRE 2 3 9-1-1 Funding Legislative Committee Resolution GAHRE 3 Lana Mook Mayor of El Mirage Chair, General Administration, Human Resources and Elections Committee Attachment: 2018 League Conference Resolutions Packet (2125 : League Resolutions Voting) 16 Packet Pg. 152