Title
Resolution authorizing Benefit Protection Leave for 2 months retro IMRF service credit while employee was on approved unpaid leave of absence.
Staff Summary
• Employee 4097 was on approved unpaid leave of absence from December 2019 thru September 2021.
• Employee is requesting service credit for the months of August and September 2021.
• The cost to Lake County will be 11 percent of the employee’s average monthly wages.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Article 7 of the Illinois Pension Code (40 ILCS 5/7-139(a)(4)) provides that the governing body of a governmental unit may elect to allow service credit in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund to members who are placed on authorized leave of absence without pay, and
WHEREAS, not more than twelve (12) complete months of creditable service for such authorized leave of absence shall be credited towards any benefit under Article 7 of the Pension Code, and
WHEREAS, no service credit may be issued for such authorized, unpaid leave unless an application for credits is submitted to the Board of Trustees of Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund while the employee is in a status of active employment;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the County Board of Lake County, elects to allow service credit to all eligible employees who have been placed on a period of authorized leave without pay, not to exceed twelve (12) months, until the rescission of this resolution.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that all associated costs thereof to County Board of Lake County as determined by the Fund are hereby approved; AND
FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall be directed to maintain a record of this resolution for inspection, upon request by the Fund, and is further directed to certify IMRF Form 6.32, IMRF Benefit Protection Leave, upon the request of the affected employee[s].
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois on October 6, 2022.