Authorizes the village of Port Chester to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Shelley Mayer says this is needed

Police Officer Michael Sprague was hired on January 7, 2013 and on Janu- ary 14, 2013, the Village completed and faxed his application (Form PF5022) to the NYS Police and Fire Retirement System. It was returned to the Village with Officer Sprague's registration number and plan code 384-d filled in by NYS on the appropriate sections of the form. The first the Village learned that the officer was in the plan designated 375-i and not plan 384-d was when it received the annual report. NYS advised the Village that the application form was not complete since it had not been notarized, and that NYS had attempted to contact the offi- cer. The Village did not follow up to ensure that the officer was in the correct plan.. The Village has since had a change of payroll clerks, and now desires to correct this omission. The Village requests this special legislation to reopen the plan. The identical bill S5551 passed the Senate and Assembly in 2017 and was signed by the Governor. Subsequent to 55551 being adopted into law, the village of Port Chester approved a resolution to make the required payments to the state to transfer Officer Sprague into the correct retirement plan. However, Officer Sprague was not made aware that to complete the transfer, he had to file additional forms. Said forms were not received by Officer Spra- gue nor was he notified that the matter was pending. Officer Sprague was advised by the village's human resources department that everything concerning the retirement issue was completed and put to rest after the bill passed and the village board approved the resolution. Officer Spra- gue relied upon this assurance and trusted that everything was in order. In November 2022, Office Sprague discovered, from retirement account information newly accessible online, that he remained in the wrong retirement plan, under 375i. Officer Sprague contacted state retirement personnel and was advised that a new bill, similar to the last one, would need to be introduced to rectify this error.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.