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Resolution 02- ______
Adopting the First Amendment to the
Poudre Fire Authority New Hire Money Purchase Pension Plan
And Trust Agreement as Amended and Restated, Effective December 24, 2001
WHEREAS, the Poudre Fire Authority (the "Employer"), established the Poudre
Fire Authority New Hire-City Money Purchase Pension Plan and Trust Agreement (the
"Plan"), effective January 1, 1988; and
WHEREAS, the Employer adopted the amended and restated Plan, effective
December 24, 2001; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to ' 11.1 of the Plan, the Employer has the authority to
amend the Plan without a vote of the actively-employed eligible employees providing
the amendments are minor, technical amendments required from time to time by
changes in state or federal laws or regulations; and
WHEREAS, the Employer deems it advisable to amend the Plan to comply with
the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) and with
technical tax requirements requested by the Internal Revenue Service in conjunction
with the request for a determination letter; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Poudre Fire Authority New Hire Money
Purchase Pension Plan and Trust Agreement have recommended the adoption of the
Plan amendments set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Board of Directors of the Poudre Fire
Authority that the Plan is hereby amended, effective January 1, 2002 as follows:
1. ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION, ' 2.1 Definitions (e)
Compensation shall be revised to read as follows:
(e) Compensation: A Participant's base salary received from
the Employer for personal services during the Year, but excluding holiday
pay, acting officer pay, longevity pay, bonus payments, payments for
unused vacation, overtime, uniform cleaning and travel allowances, and
excluding any benefits paid under this Plan or any other retirement or life
insurance program or under any other health or welfare plan. For
purposes of allocating the Employer's contribution for the Year in which a
Participant begins or resumes Participation, Compensation shall be
determined as of the first day of the year in which the Employee became a
Participant and Compensation before his Participation began or resumed
shall be disregarded. Contributions shall be made on a Participant's base
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salary as defined herein, before taking into account amounts contributed
by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which were
excludable from the Employee's gross income under Code Section 125,
Code Section 132(f)(4), Code Section 402(a)(8), Code Section 403(b) or
Code Section 402(h) or 457. Effective January 1, 2002, Compensation in
excess of $ 200,000, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases in
accordance with section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code, shall not be taken into
account under the Plan.
2. ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION, ' 2.1 Definitions new section
(r) Leased Employee shall be added, with the subsequent sections to be re-lettered, to
read as follows:
(r) Leased Employee: Any person who is not an employee of
the recipient and pursuant to an agreement between the Employer and
any other person, has performed services for the Employer on a
substantially full time basis for a period of at least one year, and such
services are performed under the primary direction and control of the
Employer. Contributions or benefits provided a leased employee by the
leasing organization which are attributable to services performed for the
Employer shall be treated as provided by the Employer. A Leased
Employee or Employee shall not be considered an employee of the
Employer if: (i) such Employee is covered by a money purchase pension
plan providing (1) a non-integrated Employer contribution rate of at least
10% of Compensation, as defined in Code Section 415(c)(3), but including
amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction
agreement which were excludable from the Employee's gross income
under Code Section 125, Code Section 132(f)(4), Code Section 402(a)(8),
Code Section 403(b) or Code Section 402(h), (2) immediate participation,
and (3) full and immediate vesting; and (ii) leased employees do not
constitute more than 20% of the Employer's non-highly compensated work
force.
3. ARTICLE IV. CONTRIBUTIONS AND FORFEITURES, ' 4.2 Contributions by
Participants, (b) Voluntary Contributions is hereby amended by the replacement of the
first sentence to read as follows:
(b) Voluntary Contributions: In order to encourage savings and
investments by Participants, effective January 1, 2002, each Participant
voluntarily may contribute to the Trust an amount not to exceed seventy-
two percent (72%) of Compensation in addition to contributions under
subparagraph (a) of this subsection, and subject to the ' 5.3 maximum
additions limit.
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4. ARTICLE V. ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS, ' 5.3 Maximum
Additions, shall be revised to read as follows:
5.3 Maximum Additions: Notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary, the total Additions made to the Employer and
Employee Contribution Accounts of a Participant for any Year shall not
exceed the "Maximum Permissible Amount," reduced by the sum of any
Additions allocated to the Participant's accounts for the same Year under
any other defined contribution plan or welfare benefit fund (as defined in
Code Section 419(e)) maintained by the employer. The Maximum
Permissible Amount shall be equal to the lesser of $ 40,000 or 100% of
the Participant's Compensation for such Year, or such amount as provided
in '415 of the Code.
(a) The term "Additions" means the total of the Employer
contributions and forfeiture amounts allocated to a Participant's Employer
Contribution Account, plus the amount of any Employee Contributions to
the Plan. Amounts allocated to an individual medical account (as defined
in Code Section 415(l)(2)) included as part of a defined benefit plan
maintained by the Employer are Additions. Furthermore, Additions
include contributions paid or accrued attributable to post-retirement
medical benefits allocated to the separate account of a key employee (as
defined in Code Section 419A(d)(3)) under a welfare benefit fund (as
defined in Code Section 419(e)) maintained by the Employer.
(b) "Addition" does not include "rollovers" from an eligible
retirement plan as defined for the purpose of the direct rollover provisions
of '6.6.
(c) As of January 1 of each calendar year, and applicable
for that Plan Year, the dollar limit may be adjusted for increases in the cost
of living in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury or his delegate. If such additions exceed the limitation, the
contributions made by the Participant for the Year, which cause the
excess, shall be returned to the Participant. If, after returning the
Participant's contribution an excess still exists, such excess which is
attributable to Forfeitures shall be held in a suspense account. Such
account may be maintained if (1) no Employer contributions are made
when their allocation could be precluded by Code Section 415, (2) no
income is allocated to the account, and (3) amounts in the account are
allocated as of each allocation date on which Forfeitures may be allocated
until the account is exhausted. Upon termination of the Plan, the balance
of such account may revert to the Employer.
(d) For purposes of this section, the limitation year shall
mean the Plan Year. The term "Compensation" means, for purposes of
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Sections 5.3 and 5.4 only, a Participant's earned income, wages, salaries,
fees for professional services and other amounts received for personal
services actually rendered in the course of employment with the employer
maintaining the Plan, including cash awards and Elective Contributions,
provided, however, that for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1998,
such amounts shall not be included in Compensation for the purpose of
applying the limitations on allocations and benefits under Code Section
415. AElective Contributions@ are amounts excludible from an
Employee=s gross income under Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3),
403(b), 402(h)(1)(B), or 457, or any other Elective Deferrals as defined in
Code Section 402(g)(3).
5. ARTICLE VI. BENEFITS, ' 6.6 Direct Transfers and Rollovers, paragraphs two
and three shall be amended to read as follows:
An eligible rollover distribution is any distribution of all or any
portion of the balance to the credit of the Participant, except that an
eligible rollover distribution does not include: (i) any distribution that is
one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less
frequently than annually) made for the life (or life expectancy) of the
distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the distributee
and the distributee's designated Beneficiary, or for a specified period of
ten years or more; (ii) any distribution to the extent such distribution is
required under Code Section 401(a)(9); and (iii) the portion of any
distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without
regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to
employer securities). For purposes of the direct rollover provisions in this '
6.6, a portion of a distribution shall not fail to be an Eligible Rollover
Distribution merely because the portion consists of after-tax employee
contributions which are not includible in gross income. However, such
portion may be transferred only to an individual retirement account or
annuity described in Code ' 408(a) or (b), or to a qualified defined
contribution plan described in Code ' 401(a) or 403(a) that agrees to
separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately
accounting for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross
income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible.
An eligible retirement plan is an individual retirement account
described in Code Section 408(a), an individual retirement annuity
described in Code Section 408(b), an annuity plan described in Code
Section 403(a), or a qualified trust described in Code Section 401(a) that
accepts the distributee's eligible rollover distribution. For purposes of the
direct rollover provisions in this ' 6.6, an Eligible Retirement Plan shall also
mean an annuity contract described in Code ' 403(b) and an eligible plan
under Code ' 457(b) which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of
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a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision
of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred
into such plan from this Plan. The definition of Eligible Retirement Plan
shall also apply in the case of a distribution to a surviving spouse, or to a
spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a domestic
relations order, as defined in Code ' 414(p).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Resolution was adopted by the Poudre Fire
Authority this ____ day of ________________, 2002.
POUDRE FIRE AUTHORITY
By:
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Its:
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ATTEST:
By:
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Its:
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