HomeMy WebLinkAbout4669 ORDINANCE NO. ~
AN ORDINANCE establishing a Bremerton Reserve Officer Board of
Trustees to administer relief provisions of RCW 41.24
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
Section 1. New Chapter. A new chapter is hereby added to the Bremerton Municipal
Code to read as follows:
CHAPTER 2.98 BREMERTON RESERVE OFFICER BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2.98.005 EXTENSION OF RELIEF PROVISIONS
The City of Bremerton extends the relief provisions of RCW 41.24 to B remerton
Police Reserve Officers, pursuant to RCW 41.24.400
2.98.010 ESTABLISHED
There is established a Bremerton Reserve Officer Board of Trustees, hereinafter referred
to as the "Reserve Officer Board", which shall administer the relief provisions of RCW 41.24
extending to City of Bremerton reserve officers specified medical, death, and disability benefits
made necessary from death, sickness, injury, or disability arising in the performance of reserve
officer duty.
2.98.020 MEMBERSHIP AND TERMS OF OFFICE.
(a) The Reserve Officer Board shall consist of the following five members:
(1) The Mayor, or designee
(2) One member of City Council, or designee
(3) The City Clerk
(4) The Police Chief
(5) One reserve officer, elected by Bremerton reserve officers
(b) Terms of appointment for the members identified in (1) and (2) shall continue until
successors have been designated. The reserve officer member shall serve for one year after
election by Bremerton reserve officers. In the event that an elected reserve officer is unable to
complete the elected term, a successor shall be elected as soon as feasible.
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2.98.030 SALARIES AND PERSONAL EXPENSES.
The members of the Reserve Officer Board shall receive no salaries or other remuneration
for their services in such capacity, and shall not be entitled to personal expenses incurred by them
in the discharge of their official duties, except when such expense is first authorized and approved
in advance by the Mayor.
2.98.040 OFFICERS.
The Reserve Officer Board shall elect a chairman and vice chairman by a simple majority
of the members present. The officers so elected shall serve for a term of one year. Thereafter
annually, new officers shall be elected by the Reserve Officer Board and shall serve until their
successors are elected. A vacancy in any position of any office of the Reserve Officer Board shall
be filled by a vote of a simple majority of the members present.
2.98.050 RULES OF PROCEDURE.
Any action to be taken by the Reserve Officer Board shall require the concurrence of
a simple majority of the members qualified to vote.
2.98.060 COMPLIANCE WITH CODE OF ETHICS.
The Reserve Officer Board shall comply with the city code of ethics ordinance codified as
Chapter 2.96~
2.98.070 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
The Reserve Officer Board shall have the following specific functions:
(a) Provide for the enrollment of all Bremerton reserve officers under the relief provisions
of RCW 41.24, the Volunteer Fire Fighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pension Principal
Fund
(b) Initially hear and decide all applications for relief
(c) Pass on all claims and direct payment thereof from the Washington state Volunteer
Fire Fighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pension Principal Fund created under RCW 41.24
to those entitled thereto.
(d) Provide for the payment of the annual fee for each reserve officer enrolled under the
relief provision of the Washington state Volunteer Fire Fighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and
Pension Principal Fund
(e) Keep a public record of all proceedings and of all receipts and disbursements made by
the Reserve Officer Board
(f) Make an annual report of its expenses and disbursements with a full list of the
beneficiaries
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(g) Make all required reports to the State Board for Volunteer Fire Fighters and
Reserve Officers
2.98.080 MEETINGS.
The Reserve Officer Board shall meet on the call of its chair on a regular monthly meeting
day when there is business to come before it. The chair shall be required to call a meeting on any
regular meeting day at the request of any enrolled reserve officer or his or her beneficiary claiming
relief.
2.98.090 NON-PARTICIPATION IN THE RETIREMENT PENSION PROVISIONS
OF RCW 41.24.
The City shall not provide retirement pension benefits to its reserve officers under the
provisions of RCW 41.24 and the Reserve Officer Board has no authority to administer any
retirement pension provisions of that chapter.
Section 2. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective ten (10) days after
passage and publication.
APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this ].~a~tZ day of
t~_~-ttxa~_ S0 ,1999.
PASSED by the City Council of the City ofBremerton this,a2Z2g. JD day of
I/¢/'_~-~_A) , 1999.
MIKE SHEPHERD, Council President
APPROVED this,~:z~,_~ day of~1999
L~S. HO~R'TON~, M~or
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN City Clerk
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