SF voters to weigh boosts to nurses, dispatchers pensions

[RandySF]

San Francisco has faced significant shortages of nurses and 911 dispatchers in recent years.

In November, voters will decide whether to enhance the retirement benefits of such workers as a way to help recruit and retain more of them — even as The City faces a huge budget deficit.

Proposition I would allow nurses at the San Francisco Department of Public Health who previously worked on a temporary basis to apply the hours they worked on that basis toward their retirements. It would also move all dispatchers into a more generous retirement plan than they are in now.

The measure, which would take effect Jan. 1 and has the backing of the entire Board of Supervisors, would cost The City between $3.8 million and $6.7 million in its first year in increased contributions to the workers’ retirement plans — and more after that, according to an estimate from the City Controller’s office.




https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-nurses-dispatchers-hope-voters-ok-pension-changes/article_4a13d59e-7ac2-11ef-904a-c71b7967ff7f.html