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,I , CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED RFSOLUTION NO. 98- 104 BY.• THE MAYOR AND ALL MEMBERS OF COUNCIL A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING GOVERNOR VOINOVICH'S CAMPAIGN TO OPPOSE MANDATORY PARTICIPATION OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM. WHEREAS, the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Securiry has requested the federal General Accounting Office (GAO) to visit and review every state whose public employees do not participate in the Social Security System; and WHEREAS, the said Congressional Subcommittee is conducting a study to examine the effects of implementing the Social Security Advisory Council's recommendation that would require all state and local government employees to pazkicipate in Social Security; and WHEREAS, the GAO recently visited the State of Ohio to examine the state's five public employee retirement systems; and WHEREAS, Governor Voinovich has expressed his concern to this Council and other City Councils thmughout the State that the GAO study will lead to Congressional consideration of the Advisory Council's proposal; and WHEREAS, Ohio's public retirement systems provide benefits to teachers, school employees, police and firemen, the highway patrol, and state and local government employees; and WHEREAS, the largest Ohio public retirement system, the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), has over 600,000 members and benefit recipients, whose contributions into the system are invested and thereby provide tremendous amounts of capital into the economy; and WHEREAS, if publie employees were required to pay into Social Security, the imposition of a FICA tax upon public employee wages would create an enormous unfunded mandate upon the State and its political subdivisions, ultimately causing either an increase in employee PERS contribution rates or a decrease in PERS benefits; and WHEREAS, the Governor has already communicated with leaders in Congress voicing his