BOARD VOTES TO FIND WAYS TO CLOSE RETIREMENT LOOPHOLES.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. , who co-authored the motion with Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. , said the county needs to be at the ``forefront of trying to restore common sense to the disability pension system.'' ``It's going to require state legislation,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``We are the largest county in the state. As Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County goes, so goes the rest of the state in many ways.'' The motion calls for a study of how to contain the soaring cost of public employee pensions through new rules and legislation. The county pays about $243 million a year in contributions to pension plans, and that figure could increase sharply under new legislation set to take effect Jan. 1 that would allow police and firefighters to claim full disability pensions for cancer without proving a job-related connection. Critics say too many firefighters and law enforcement officers are given full disability pensions. In Block's case, the Los Angeles County Employees Association Board of Retirement approved the pension, even though Block's death was related to a bathtub fall. The board ruled Block's widow was entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: to the full pension because he was in ill health due to the long-term stress of the job. Marsha Richter, chief executive officer of LACERA LACERA Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association , said she will be happy to cooperate with county officials on proposing changes in the system. Richter said she supports changing rules that allow public safety officers to participate in off-duty activities where injuries can occur as well as reviewing job positions and whether those positions are appropriately defined for the physical requirements of the jobs. As far as the cancer legislation, Richter said LACERA actively opposed it. ``I appeared in Sacramento and testified against it,'' she said. ``I wrote letters to the governor, but it passed.'' Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San said he's disturbed by the laws state legislators have passed regarding pension plans. ``It's obscene Offensive to recognized standards of decency. The term obscene is applied to written, verbal, or visual works or conduct that treat sex in an objectionable or lewd or lascivious manner. what California has done in handcuffing local governments on these pension plans,'' he said. ``Through the motion passed today, it provides a forum for recommendations to eliminate the special benefits.'' |
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