You’re absolutely right. Contracts can vary. Rates can vary. Pays can vary. … Only in the area of retiree health benefits has the Legislature spoken.

In your passage of this ordinance, we’re not saying that we’re paying the medical bills of people who in the past didn’t qualify. I don’t foresee that being a problem whatsoever. … It’s relatively limited...

Right now, the way your law is written, if a police officer gets shot in the line of duty, he gets accidental disability retirement. … He gets no health benefits.

The problem you have is if you don’t act on it, your ordinance … does not comport with state law. I don’t want you to get sued.

The problem with retirees is once you’re a retiree, you’re no longer a member of a collective bargain agreement.

[Right now] you have different choices for different classes of people. No one’s challenging that. The law … just deals with uniformity for retiree benefits, not uniformity among [current employees].