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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
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