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RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXCLUSION FROM
SOCIAL SECURITY WITHHOLDING AS TO SERVICES
PERFORMED BY ELECTION OFFICIALS OR ELECTION
WORKERS FOR EACH CALENDAR YEAR PRIOR TO THE
YEAR 2000 IN WHICH THE REMUNERATION PAID FOR
SUCH SERVICES IS LESS THAN $1,000.00, AND FOR
EACH YEAR AFTER 19991N WHICH THE REMUNERATION
PAID IS LESS THAN AN AMOUNT SET PURSUANT TO
THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.
WHEREAS, the former City Council of Augusta, Georgia and the Richmond
County Board of Commissioners, did each enter into a Plan and Agreement (the
("Agreement") with the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for extending to their
employees the insurance system established by Title II of the Social Security Act; and
WHEREAS, the original agreements did include the services of election
officials and election workers; and
WHEREAS, Public Law 103-296 increased the Social Security exclusion
for election workers from $100 to $1,000 remuneration in any given calendar year;
and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of Augusta, Georgia, acting by and through the
Augusta-Richmond County Commission, as successor to the City Council and the
Richmond County Board of Commissioners, to exclude the services performed by
election officials or election workers for each calendar year prior to the year 2000 in
which the remuneration paid for such services is less than $1,000, and for each year
after 1999 in which the remuneration paid is less than the adjusted amount, as described
below; and
WHEREAS, the $1,000 limit on the excludable amount of remuneration paid
in a calendar year for the services specified will be subject to adjustment for calendar
years after 1999 to reflect changes in wages in the economy without any further
modification of the Agreement, with respect to such services performed during such
calendar years, in accordance with Section 218(c)(8)(B) of the Social Security Act.
NOW, therefore, be it resolved, that the contracts approved and accepted
by the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia for the City Council of Augusta,
Georgia and the Richmond County Board of Commissioners be and are hereby,
amended to exclude the above services effective January 1, 1996.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this amendment shall be effective as of
January 1, 1996.
,Il Duly Adopted by the Augusta-Richmond County Commission, this .20
day of .g::/:r~_lJd , 1998, by a vote of /0 ayes, () nays, and tJ
abstaining.
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GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY
I do hereby certify that I am Clerk of the Augusta-Richmond County
Commission of Augusta, Georgia, and that the above and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of a Resolution adopted by the Commission at a meeting held on the :2d day
of j{J~, 199L, and which appears on record in the office of the Clerk of
Commission located in Richmond County, Georgia.
This.di!... day of 1&1J~ , 199~.
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