Exactly. With the passage of Question K, anything else effectively abolishes the pension system. That said, you can make the argument that council members shouldn’t qualify for a lifetime pension in the first place, or that 12 years of service is a significant enough sacrifice to merit that benefit whereas 8 isn’t, which a lot of people would probably agree with.
That said, as far as I understand it, the realistic path to change this would be be A) the mayor vetoes the bill or B) another question gets put on the ballot for 2024 to repeal the term limits imposed by question K, and then the presiding council votes to return the pension qualification to 12 years
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Exactly. With the passage of Question K, anything else effectively abolishes the pension system. That said, you can make the argument that council members shouldn’t qualify for a lifetime pension in the first place, or that 12 years of service is a significant enough sacrifice to merit that benefit whereas 8 isn’t, which a lot of people would probably agree with.
That said, as far as I understand it, the realistic path to change this would be be A) the mayor vetoes the bill or B) another question gets put on the ballot for 2024 to repeal the term limits imposed by question K, and then the presiding council votes to return the pension qualification to 12 years