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Resolution 14887CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 14887 AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTERNAL REVENUE CODE SECTION 115 IRREVOCABLE TRUST WITH PUBLIC AGENCY RETIREMENT SERVICES (PARS) TO PREFUND POST EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLE RETIREES WHEREAS it is determined to be in the best interest of the City of Alameda (the "City") to participate in the PARS Public Agencies Post-Retirement Health Care Plan Trust (the "Program") to fund post-employment benefits for its employees as specified in the City's policies and/or applicable collective bargaining agreements; and WHEREAS the City is eligible to participate in the Program, a tax-exempt trust and plan performing an essential governmental function within the meaning of Section 115 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and the Regulations issued thereunder, and is a tax-exempt trust under the relevant statutory provisions of the State of California. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT that the City Council takes the following actions: 1. Adopts the PARS Public Agencies Post-Retirement Health Care Plan Trust, including the PARS Public Agencies Post-Retirement Health Care Ran, as part of the City Retirement Program, effective March 2014; and 2. Appoints the City Manager and Finance Director or their designees as the City's Plan Administrators for the Program; and 3. The City's Plan Administrators are hereby authorized to execute the PARS legal and administrative documents on behalf of the City and to take whatever additional actions are necessary to maintain the City's participation in the Program and to maintain compliance of any relevant regulation issued or as may be issued; therefore, authorizing them to take whatever additional actions are required to administer the City's PARS plan(s). I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 4th day of February 2014, by the following vote to wit: AYES: Councilmembers Chen, Daysog, Ezzy Ashcraft, Tam and Mayor Gilmore — 5. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. ABSTENTIONS: None. IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this 5th day of February, 2014. Lara Weisiger, tom` Ierk City of Alameda