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Peoria public safety pensions now in healthy category

3/21/2024
PSPRS: Important landmarks July 1, 1968: PSPRS established to provide a uniform, consistent and equitable statewide retirement program for Arizona’s public safety personnel. 2000s: PSPRS hit …

State pension fund to sell interest in company that …

9/30/2023
PHOENIX — The state’s largest public pension fund is selling off its interest in a company that owns a 3,000-acre western Arizona farm that grows alfalfa to ship to the Middle East.

Council works out complicated budget

4/1/2023
Gov. Katie Hobbs’ recent veto of a repeal of food tax clarified only one of dozens of important variables that affect Arizona municipal budgets for Fiscal Year 2024. At a pair of late-March …

A look into Arizona’s state pension system

2/21/2023
Many of the state workers drawing the biggest pensions from the Arizona’s fund aren’t household names. Instead, within the top 25 recipients of state pensions are university faculty members, health care officials and even local airport officials.

Queen Creek council approves fully funding the …

12/12/2022
The Queen Creek Town Council unanimously approved a $7 million payment to fully fund the town’s police pension plan in the Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, providing savings …

Peoria pulls $30M from contingency funds to cut public …

10/21/2021
After investment losses and an explosion of pension costs for public safety employees over the past 15 years, Peoria leadership recently gave the go-ahead for a plan staff says will save on costs and …

Arizona officials tackle workers' comp law for …

1/16/2020
PHOENIX — State lawmakers are looking to close a loophole in the law they say has allowed cities to deny workers’ compensation benefits to firefighters with cancer. Sen. Heather …