Sept. 26, 2010, Mansfield News Journal
BY JESSICA ALAIMO AND LINDA MARTZ
News Journal
MANSFIELD — Bucyrus taxpayers spent $412,214 last year to cover pension contributions that otherwise would have been paid by city employees.
Combined with the city’s mandatory employer contributions, 7.9 percent of all revenues go to the Public Employees Retirement System and the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.
Bucyrus is far from the exception. Often the result of long-standing contracts, many local entities “pick up” — or pay all or some of — their employees’ contributions to the retirement funds.
The practice has continued to grow.
In the past three years, the cities of Coshocton, Lancaster, Chillicothe, Heath and others all agreed to new or increased pickup plans, according to an analysis of public records by CentralOhio.com and the News Journal.
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