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Indian River County, Florida Property Appraiser Notes To Financial Statements Year Ended September 30, 2017 NOTE 3 — PENSION PLAN Florida Retirement System Plan Description: The Property Appraisers's employees participate in the Florida Retirement System (FRS), a cost-sharing, multiple -employer public employee retirement system, administered by the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS). Benefit provisions are established and may be amended by state statute. A financial report is available from the DMS website at www.dms.myflorida.com or by mail at Florida Division of Retirement, PO Box 9000, Tallahassee, FL 32315-9000. Effective July 1, 2011, the FRS became a contributory plan for all members, except DROP participants, whereby members contribute 3% and employers pay a rate based upon each member's employment class. Classes and rates in effect at July 1, 2017 were: regular class 7.92%, senior management class 22.71%, DROP class 13.26%, and elected official class 45.50%. Included in these rates is a health insurance subsidy of 1.66%. Employees elect participation in either the defined benefit plan (Pension Plan) or the defined contribution plan (Investment Plan). If the employee enrolled in the FRS prior to July 1, 2011, normal retirement is age 62 with 6 years of service or 30 years of service, regardless of age. If the employee enrolled in the FRS on or after July 1, 2011, normal retirement is age 65 with 8 years of service or 33 years of service, regardless of age. Under the Pension Plan, early retirement is available before reaching normal retirement age and will be subject to an early-retirement reduction of 5% for each year your age at retirement is under your normal retirement age. For those employees who elect participation in the Investment Plan rather than the Pension Plan, vesting occurs after one year of service. Participants have access to the full value of their vested account balance when they leave FRS employment, regardless of age. These participants receive a defined contribution for self-direction in an investment product with a third party administrator selected by the State Board of Administration. Benefits Provided: Retirement benefits are determined by age, years of service, the average of the highest 5 or 8 fiscal years of pay, membership class and the payment option selected at retirement. For further information concerning the FRS and contribution rates, please read the County -wide note on pension plans. Contributions: Employer contributions to the FRS are based on a percentage of covered payroll that has been actuarially determined as an amount, when combined with employee contributions, is expected to finance the cost of benefits earned by employees during the year with an additional amount to finance any unfunded accrued liability. For the year ended September 30, 2017, the Property Appraiser's actuarial contributions to FRS under the Pension Plan were $179,148 and the Health Insurance Subsidy (HIS Program) were $35,672. Employee contributions were $58,003. Both employer and employee contributions were equal to 100% of the required contribution for each year. W