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14 R 2, Rose City Chapter No. 5.. That the State allow credit for all prior sef? vice. (Adopted by General Council). R 3, Rose City C o p te r No. 5, com- binfffilvith R 14.I^ ^ M p P h a p te e ,M 29 and R 17,. Salem Chapter No. L 17 below). R 4, Klamath Falls Chapter No? 12,' H H M aking retirement compulsory at age 65. Did not pass, (b) Increasing the amount of prior service payments. C om ^ineS^lth another resolution, (c) Retaining the present limit of 20 ¿years for p rio ^ sQIlllO payments. Did not pass. r 5, Rose City chaPter H 5- .Re" tirement on a living wage. Committee recommended that this resolution be referred to the Board of Directors for such action as they saw lit. (Commit tee rpcommendati^M approved by Council). R 6, Rose City Chapter No. 5. BE IT RESOLVED, To amend by Legislative Action, Section 20, Chapter 401, Laws of 1945, as amended by striking out or deleting portions of this Section as are included between brackets ( ). I I “Section 20, Until the first payment on account of his retirement allowance becomes .normally due, a person who is a member of the sys tem may elect to convert (the annuity portion. of) th e ; aliowance otherwise IfOftable on his account after his re tirement into a service retirement an- nuity of equivalent acturial value of. one of the optional forms named be low.”- I Committee’s recommendation was do pass. (Committee recommendation approved by Council). R 7, Rose City g g B B E D creasing employer contributions. Cof- mittee combines this witn another res olution which covered this point, with the consent of Rose City delegate. R 8, Rose City Chapter No. 5. Re: All State matcWBlI funds in Retire ment Fuhel. Committee recommended that it do not pass. M r.O ^ relo ck moved such action on .the grounds’ largely that the bookkeeping involved would be greater expense than a bene fit. ( C o m m i t t e e recommendation adopted)I R 9, Rose City Chapter No. 5. Pro viding for minimum living wage for fljjgg^ility retirement.Kpommittee rec ommended. that it do not'pass based oh the ^^^^® ,^that^M 3^S olution as subnglML did -not furnish anything for the committee to act upon. It was a debatable item. .;(Committee recom- mendatiowadopted by General Coun- cil). R 10, Rose City Chapter No. 5. In creases in retirement allowances to be studied and report made to next Gen eral Council. (Adopted by General ^ u n c iS ^ p R 11, Eugene Chapter No. 6 and R 12, Roundup Chapter No. 24 and R 13, Tillamook Chapter No. 15. Committee substitution^ to-wit: “ (a) That the 1948 Generall llouncil go on record as approving the policy of leav ing the retirement age as in the pres ent statute, but that we not oppose the change of retirement ages for -those grouW| not covered by this Associa- tion or where the present ages of re- tirement are definitely in conflict to the best in te r^ ts of the State (Adopted by General Council). “ (b) That the problem of arbitrary retirement of academic members of the State System of Higher Education at age of 65 be referred to the Board of Directors for study and that the Direc tors be authorized to seek such cor- rective amendments to the Public Em ployees Retirement Act as seem appro-x p-riate after such consideration but not to raise the minimum retirement age above 68.” (Adopted by General Coun- ||fr)? ?< R 14, Corvallis Chapter No. 29. BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Association seek to have the state legislature adopt the prownons of the fallowing proposed amendments to the Public Employees Retirement Act: . (1) The maximum salary limit as basis for matching the employees’ con tributions toward the retirement fund by the public employer be increased from $200 per m onth!as provided in the present law to $350 per month. (Section 15, Paragraph 1). (See R 17 below). (2) That prior service credit pen sion be increased from $2.50 per month to $4.00 per month, and thatgthis (Continued on page 27)
