DegenNellieLiasionJamestown (CSi) The Fraternal Order of Police, James Valley Region, Lodge Number 4, Liason will appear at the Jamestown City Council meeting Monday, October 5th, and meet further with the Stutsman County Commission to push for the city and county to implement the state’s Public Employees Retirement System, for local law enforcement employees.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Nellie Degen said, that

PERS allows officers to make their own contributions so they may retire at an earlier date, as early as age 55, and has been available in North Dakota since 2003.

She pointed out that PERS for law enforcement, is separate from the PERS mainstream program of public employees.

She will appear at the Jamestown City Council meeting on October 5th, to ask council members to consider adding the program to the 2016 city budget and approve the program for the Jamestown Police Department.

She added that political subdivisions that have PERS available for local law enforcement is a good recruitment tool, noting that with officers under emotional and physical stress and limitation as they get older officers will benefit from being able to retire at age 55.

The program also allows law enforcement employees to make contributions to there retirement package at an earlier age.

She urges community members in favor of implementing the program in Jamestown and Stutsman County to contact Jamestown City Council, and Stutsman County Commission members.