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Fire & Police Disability & Retirement

Service Area Summaries > City Operations > Fire & Police Disability & Retirement -- 12 pages · pp. 507-518 ↗

Intro (~2,102 tokens, spilled to sibling files): pp. 507-510 · PDF ↗

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[doc] Administration & Support. . . . . . pp. 511-512 ↗ The Fire & Police Disability & Retirement Administration & Support program budgets $3.5 million for FY 2026-27, a modest 0.1% increase over FY 2025-26. Administrative costs remain at 2.0% of bureau expenditures. Personnel budget decreases 2.0% due to unexecuted salary increases from prior year. FY 2026-27 includes COLA up to 3.1%, merit pay up to 2.0%, AFSCME contract 1% increase, and 22.7% health benefit cost growth.
[doc] Disability and Death Benefits pp. 513-514 ↗ The Disability and Death Benefits program provides service and nonservice disability benefits for sworn City Fire and Police employees and funeral/survivor benefits for their families. The proposed FY 2026-27 budget is $10.75M, representing a 0.87% increase. Personnel costs rise to $1.78M (7.4% increase) for 9.0 FTE, while materials and services costs decrease 0.33%. Key program goals include timely claim decisions, return-to-work assistance, and accurate benefit payments.
[doc] FPDR Pension Benefits pp. 515-516 ↗ The FPDR Pension Benefits program administers retirement benefits for approximately 2,100 sworn Police and Fire employees hired before January 1, 2007. The FY 2026-27 proposed budget is $180.5 million, representing a 7.3% increase from the prior year and 51% of overall FPDR bureau requirements. The program is the largest in the bureau portfolio and expected to grow until FPDR transitions fully to pay-as-you-go structure.
[doc] Sworn PERS Contributions pp. 517-518 ↗ The Sworn PERS Contributions program reimburses Police and Fire Bureaus for Oregon Public Employees Retirement System contributions for sworn employees hired after 2006. The FY 2026-27 budget is $63.9 million, up 9.5% from FY 2025-26. The program covers approximately 1,044 employees in FY 2026-27, projected to grow to 1,264 by FY 2030-31. The PERS contribution rate remains at 38.06%. This is the fastest-growing bureau expenditure category, increasing from 24.2% to 24.7%. Billing changed from quarterly to monthly.

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