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-, PPS-7. VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE. RETIREMENT (B) (cont'd) <br />Proposals to integrate ambulance and rescue volunteers not part of local <br />volunteer fire departments into the program for retirement for volunteer <br />firefighters have met rejection from organizations of volunteer firefighters. <br />Creation of another system of local relief is not in the best interest of the <br />state, its political subdivisions, or its taxpayers, especially in view of <br />recent federal tax legislation which now provides an efficient, simple, and <br />inexpensive means of providing retirement benefits to ambulance and other <br />volunteers. <br />However, cities need the power to encourage long-term employment and <br />volunteers by simple retirement mechanisms which are not subject to deficit <br />financing. <br />PPS-4. RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS BY CITIES (B) <br />In order to prevent the creation of large unfunded deficits for promised <br />health care for retired public employees, in the same way that unfunded <br />actuarial deficits were created by promised pension benefits prior to statutory <br />requirements for funding, the League of Minnesota Cities urges the legislature <br />to impose the foregoing restrictions. <br />PPS-5. VETERANS PREFERENCE AND MILITARY LEAVES (B) <br />Current statutes entitle a veteran to at least two different hearing <br />procedures to challenge any disciplinary action. This is not only grossly <br />inefficient but may also be unworkable since the standards for court review of <br />the decisions of veterans preference boards and grievance arbitrators vary <br />significantly. lice Minnesota Supreme Court in a recent decision also has <br />indicated to the legislature that these statutes need to be amended. <br />-15- <br />