SF voters to weigh boosts to nurses, dispatchers pensions

San Francisco has faced significant shortages of nurses and 911 dispatchers in recent years.

In November, voters will decide whether to enhance the retirement benefits of such workers as a way to help recruit and retain more of them — even as The City faces a huge budget deficit.

Proposition I would allow nurses at the San Francisco Department of Public Health who previously worked on a temporary basis to apply the hours they worked on that basis toward their retirements. It would also move all dispatchers into a more generous retirement plan than they are in now.

The measure, which would take effect Jan. 1 and has the backing of the entire Board of Supervisors, would cost The City between $3.8 million and $6.7 million in its first year in increased contributions to the workers’ retirement plans — and more after that, according to an estimate from the City Controller’s office.




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