Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Colleen Chawla, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Lee Pullen, Director, Aging and Disability Services
Subject: Amendment to the Agreement Providing for the Public Authority's Participation in the California Public Employees' Retirement System
RECOMMENDATION:
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Acting as the Governing Board of the San Mateo County In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Public Authority, adopt a resolution approving an amendment to the agreement providing for the Public Authority's participation in the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
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BACKGROUND:
California Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC) section 12301.6 authorizes county boards of supervisors to provide for the delivery of IHSS either by contracting with a nonprofit consortium or by establishing a Public Authority (PA). On September 21, 1993, the Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 03508, which created a PA for the delivery of IHSS. Pursuant to WIC section 12301.6, the PA is a public entity separate from the County. There are currently 19 full-time PA employees in San Mateo County.
Social Security coverage is available to state and local government employees through a voluntary but irrevocable federal-state agreement authorized by Section 218 of the Social Security Act. Employees covered under a Section 218 agreement have the same coverage and benefit rights as employees mandatorily covered for Social Security and Medicare. The County of San Mateo completed an application and agreement with the State of California pursuant to Section 218, and the State signed the agreement in 1957, but PA employees were not included.
In June 2021, this Board approved a resolution, authorizing the PA to include its positions in the State of California's Section 218 Social Security agreement, providing for the coverage of the PA's employees under the old age, survivors, disability, a...
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