Title
Application for Disability Retirement Vernon Foster (B)
This item requests approval of the Disability Retirement Application of former Telecommunications Specialist II Vernon Foster
Explanation
A meeting of the Disability Review Committee was conducted on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 to review the application for disability retirement of Telecommunication Specialist II Vernon Foster. His relevant medical information was reviewed by the Plan’s third party administrator and they determined that Mr. Foster is unable to perform the job duties as a Telecommunications Specialist II for the City of Gainesville. This is the standard for approving a disability retirement under the General Employee’s Pension Plan. In reviewing the application and supporting information from his physician, it is the recommendation of the Disability Review Committee that the Board of Trustees of the Plan approve the application.
Fiscal Note
Mr. Foster’s out-of-line-of-duty pension benefit is $1373.82 before Social Security Offsets and will be paid out of the City of Gainesville Employee’s Pension Plan. The benefit is gross of any offsets associated with collateral income as required by the Plan. If Mr. Foster should receive collateral employer provided benefit income, those offsets will be taken from the monthly benefit.
Recommendation
The Board of Trustees of the City of Gainesville Employee’s Pension Plan approve the disability retirement of Vernon Foster retro-active to August 1, 2017.