VOTERS FOR RESPONSIBLE RETIREMENT v. BD., SUPERVISORS

Docket No. S034268.

8 Cal.4th 765 (1994)

884 P.2d 645

35 Cal. Rptr.2d 814

VOTERS FOR RESPONSIBLE RETIREMENT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF TRINITY COUNTY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

November 23, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Alfred S. Wilkins for Plaintiff and Appellant.

John W. Anderson, County Counsel, David L. Cross, District Attorney, and W. James Wood, Deputy District Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

Lita O'Neill Blatner, County Counsel (Tulare), Kathleen Bales-Lange, Deputy County Counsel, Steven M. Woodside, County Counsel (Santa Clara), James Rumble, Deputy County Counsel, Lloyd M. Harmon, Jr., County Counsel (San Diego), John Sansone, Deputy County Counsel, Dwight L. Herr, County Counsel (Santa Cruz), Margie Valdez, William Corman and David L. Edwards as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether a county's decision to enter into an agreement with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS), to enable its employees to join PERS's retirement plan, is subject to approval or rejection by the local electorate via referendum. Respondent Trinity County (the County) advances several constitutional and statutory arguments designed to establish that decisions...

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