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I <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 5, 2002 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1-G <br />SUBJECT' Personnel Ordinance Revision- Retirement System Sick Leave Cap Removal <br />DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Draft Personnel Ordinance Revision Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director, <br />Employee Benefts - Sick Leave Extension 2552 <br />(Article IV Section 6.15) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 7324181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-0501 <br /> Durham 688.7331 <br /> Mebane 336-22]-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a revision to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance to reflecta <br />legislative change in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System the removes the <br />cap on the amount of sick leave for which retirement service may be granted at retirement. <br />BACKGROUND: Permanent Orange County employees are members of the North Carolina <br />Local Government Employees' Retirement System. The Retirement System provides that <br />unused sick leave a retirement is counted in calculating the employee's years of retirement <br />service in addition to actual years worked. The Retirement System allows one month of service <br />credit for each 20 days of unused sick leave at retirement. <br />For employees retiring prior to January 1, 2002, the Retirement System gave retirement service <br />credit for sick leave to a maximum of 12 sick leave days per year of retirement system <br />membership service. During the 2001A isleive session, the North Carolina General Assembly <br />eded legislation to remove the cap on the number of sick leave days creditable at retirement. <br />This applies to employees retiring on and after January 1,2002. With the removal of the sick <br />leave cap, the retirement system gives a rearing employee retirement service crack for all <br />accumulated sick leave days so long as the sick leave is earned under a duty adopted policy. <br />The attached Personnel Ordinance revision simply updates the County's Ordinance M reflect <br />the decision made by Mle legislature to remove the cap on the amount of sick leave for which <br />retirement service court is granted In terms of the employee and County impact of the <br />legislative change, staff would note the following'. <br />Most County employees have sick leave balances under the % hours of earned sick leave <br />per year of service due to the need to use sick leave during their cassava so the removal of <br />the cap will not have an impact.