The Local Government Employees' Retirement System Board on Thursday unanimously accepted a recommendation from the State Treasurer’s staff to adopt an Employer Contribution Rate Stabilization Policy. 在该政策通过之后, the Board set LGERS employer contribution rates for the next 5 years in accordance with the policy. N.C. 城市 & County Management Association Retirement Committee had previously met with the Treasurer’s staff 和 recommended both the policy 和 the contribution rates, a recommendation which was approved by the League’s Executive Committee.
The rate stabilization will require an increase in the employer contribution rate next year to 7.普通员工25%，8%.执法人员(LEOs) 0%. 明年以后，这两项利率都将上调0.到2020-21财年，每年25%. (Please note that these rates are only for the pension component of your contribution rates. 死亡抚恤金，也就是0.14% for LEOs but can vary from unit to unit for general employees -- is in addition to these rates.) Adoption of this policy 和 these contribution rates will allow for predictability 和 stability in the contribution rates, while continuing to keep the local retirement system one of the best-funded systems in the country. The policy allows for retiree COLAs to be granted based on investment gains without adjusting the contribution rate, 和 includes a mechanism to automatically increase or decrease the contribution rate if circumstances change 和 the stable contribution policy results in significant over- or under-funding of the system. Both the COLA 和 the fund's presumed rate of investment return came under legislative scrutiny last year.
More information on the options presented to the LGERS Board can be found 在这里. Projections for future employer contributions under different scenarios can be found in presentations 在这里 和 在这里. All of the documents from yesterday's meeting can be found 在这里. 联系人: 克里斯·尼达
New municipal elections have been ordered in five towns in the state due to voter 和 c和idate eligibility issues 和 other irregularities. 本森的选民, 三一, 近期, Ahoskie 和 Pembroke will go back to the polls on March 15 to decide one or more municipal race. The elections will coincide with the presidential 和 statewide primaries.
The State Board of Elections ordered the new elections this week in response to complaints filed by c和idates 和 others. 在阿霍斯基选举中, a winning council c和idate was ruled to be ineligible for failing to live in the district. In Benson, 37 voters were mistakenly given the wrong ballot based on the district in which they live. The rulings led to relatively short filing periods because of the need to prepare ballots ahead of the March 15 date.
Presentations made during the Orientation for New Mayors sessions held last month are now available on the League’s website. The presentations include those made by both League 和 UNC School of Government staff. 每次市政选举之后, the League 和 School of Government host the sessions as a primer for mayors who have not previously served as mayor w在这里 they can learn their roles as mayors, 公开会议和公共记录法, presiding for the good of the group 和 how to work with the media. 点击
在这里 查看PDF版本的演示文稿.
A North Carolina brewery is shifting production to come to the aid of Flint, Michigan. 奥斯卡蓝调精酿啤酒厂, which is based in Colorado but operates its East Coast brewery in Brevard, 运费是50吗?,000 cans of water from the Brevard facility to Flint to help meet residents' water needs.
Flint's water became contaminated with lead after the city, which is under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, stopped utilizing Detroit for its water supply needs 和 began pulling water from the Flint River in a cost-saving measure. Although the city has since gone back to using water supplied by Detroit, scientists say that corrosive properties in the Flint River water that caused lead leaching remain in the water system. Flint is one of eight Michigan municipalities that have been put under the control of a state emergency manager since 2008 because of financial problems.
阅读更多关于奥斯卡蓝调的捐赠 在这里. 可以找到弗林特水危机的媒体报道 在这里 和 在这里.
Responding to some predictions that sea-level rise will spell doom for low-lying cities 和 towns, an academic expert on some of the issues involved has a different take on what will happen: adaptation. Matthew Kahn, a professor of environmental 和 urban economics at the University of Southern California, writes in the Harvard Business Review that economic realities will create incentives for people to adapt 和 that new economic opportunities will arise from that adaptation. Read Kahn's assessment of the effects of sea-level rise on coastal cities
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