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Employee Relations and Collective Bargaining City employees are represented by three employee associations. The three employee associations are shown below. Pursuant to the City's Employee Relations Ordinance and the Meyers-Millis-Brown-Act, the City and the employee associations negotiate wages, hours and conditions of employment. Emplovee Group San Leandro Police Officers Association San Leandro City Employees' Association (affiliated with Local 21 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers) Emplovees Police Officers & Sergeants Contract Expires December 31, 2009 San Leandro Management Organization Administrative, office support. service and maintenance and technical employees Professional and managerial employees December 31,.2008 December 31, 2008 Pension Plans The City contracts with the California Public Employees' Retirement System ("CaIPERS") for retirement benefits. CalPERS is organized and operates pursuant to the laws of the state of California and is a multiple-employer public employee retirement system that acts as a common investment and administrative agent for participating public entities within California. Copies of CaIPERS' annual financial report may be obtained from their Executive Office located at 400 P Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. . All permanent employees who work more than 20 hours a week are included in the pension plan. Employees are vested upon completion of five years of service. Upon reaching age 50 with five years of service, employees are eligible to retire. The amount of an employee's retirement benefit depends on the employee's age and years of credited service on the date of retirement. The CalPERS program also provides for death and disability retirement benefits. For fiscal year 2005-06, the City's annual pension costs of $ $6,661,743 for CalPERS was equal to the City's required and actual contributions. LIMITATIONS ON TAX REVENUES There are a number of provisions in the State Constitution that limit the ability of the City to raise and expend tax revenues. Property Tax Rate Limitations - Article XIIIA On June 6, 1978, California voters approved Proposition 13 ("Proposition 13"), which added Article XIIIA to the State Constitution ("Article XIIIA"). Article XIIIA limits the amount of any ad valorem tax on real property to 1 % of the full cash value thereof, except that additional ad valorem taxes may be levied to pay debt service on (i) indebtedness approved by the voters prior to July 1, 1978, (ii) (as a result of an amendment to Article XIIIA approved by State voters on June 3, 1986) on bonded indebtedness for the acquisition or improvement of real property which has been approved on or after July 1, 1978 by two-third of the voters on such indebtedness, and (iii) bonded indebtedness incurred by a school district or community college district for the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities or the acquisition or lease of real property for school facilities, approved by 55% of the voters of the district, but only if certain accountability measures are included in the proposition. Article -30-