San Diego required to pay $7.5M into officers’ pensions

By David Garrick
The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — San Diego took another step Friday toward ending the long and costly legal battle over 2012’s Proposition B, a voter-approved attempt to eliminate pensions for most new city workers that was later overturned by the courts.

The city’s pension board voted Friday to require San Diego to pay $7.5 million to provide more generous pensions to roughly 1,000 police officers hired since Proposition B.

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This is the fourth group of workers the city has had to compensate since Proposition B’s reversal because officials put the measure on the ballot without negotiating the details with affected labor unions, as required under state…