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Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association
Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association (CCCERA) is a retirement association for Contra Costa County, California's public employees. It provides defined benefit plans to the county and other local agencies. The association is a system that provides retirement benefits to employees of Contra Costa County and 16 participating public employers located within the county. Member organizations As of December 31, 2007, the participating agencies/districts include: * Bethel Island Municipal Improvement Distric* Byron, Brentwood, Knightsen Union Cemetery District * CCCSD, Central Contra Costa Sanitary Districtbr>* Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Associatio* Contra Costa Housing Authorit* Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control Distric* First 5 – Children & Families Commissio* In-Home Supportive Services Authority * Local Agency Formation Commissio* Rodeo Sanitary Distric* Superior Court of Contra Costa County * Contra Costa Fire Protection Distric* East ...
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Concord, California
Concord ( ) is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California. According to an estimate completed by the United States Census Bureau, the city had a population of 129,295 in 2019 making it the eighth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1869 as Todos Santos by Don Salvio Pacheco II, a noted Californio ranchero, the name was later changed to Concord. The city is a major regional suburban East Bay center within the San Francisco Bay Area, and is east of San Francisco. History The valleys north of Mount Diablo were inhabited by the Miwok people, who hunted elk and fished in the numerous streams flowing from the mountain into the San Francisco Bay. It is important to note Miwok and other indigenous people still live within city limits. In 1772, Spanish explorers began to cross the area but did not settle there. In 1834, the Mexican land grant Rancho Monte del Diablo at the base of Mount Diablo was granted to Salvio Pacheco (for whom the nearby town ...
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Contra Costa County
) of the San Francisco Bay , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_name1 = California , subdivision_type2 = Region , subdivision_name2 = San Francisco Bay Area , seat_type = County seat , seat = Martinez , parts_type = Largest city , parts = Concord (population and land area)Richmond (total area) , unit_pref = US , area_total_sq_mi = 804 , area_land_sq_mi = 715.94 , area_water_sq_mi = 81 , elevation_max_footnotes = , elevation_max_ft = 3852 , population_as_of = 2020 , population_footnotes = , population_total = 1,165,927 , population_density_sq_mi = 1629 , established_title ...
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Public Employee
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil servant, also known as a public servant, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency for public sector undertakings. Civil servants work for central and state governments, and answer to the government, not a political party. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom (UK), for instance, only Crown (national government) employees are referred to as "civil servants" whereas employees of local authorities (counties, cities and similar administrations) are generally referred to as "local government civil service officers", who are considered public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant is ...
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Defined Benefit
Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns. Traditionally, many governmental and public entities, as well as a large number of corporations, provide defined benefit plans, sometimes as a means of compensating workers in lieu of increased pay.Lemke and Lins, ''ERISA for Money Managers'', §1:1 (Thomson West, 2013). A defined benefit plan is 'defined' in the sense that the benefit formula is defined and known in advance. Conversely, for a "defined contribution retirement saving plan," the formula for computing the employer's and employee's contributions is defined and known in advance, but the benefit to be paid out is not known in advance. In the United States, specifies a defined benefit plan to be any pension plan ...
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CCCSD
The Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (CCCSD), also called Central San, provides sanitary sewage transport and treatment for the central portion of Contra Costa County, California. The main facility is a per day treatment plant in residential Martinez, California and it provides service to approx 462,000 residents.CCCSD About Us
. Retrieved on 23 Apr 2011. It operates and maintains of sewer lines out of its second location in . It is a California Energy Commission Showcase Plant.


A Brief History

In the 1940s, central Contra Costa County was a rural area of farms, orchards and a few small towns. With the end of World War II, a building boom began. As th ...
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Superior Court Of Contra Costa County
The Contra Costa County Superior Court, officially known as the Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa, is the branch of the California Superior Court with jurisdiction over Contra Costa County. It has four courthouses: Martinez, Pittsburg, Richmond and Walnut Creek. History Contra Costa was one of the original counties formed when California gained statehood in 1850. The original courthouse in Martinez, the county seat, was condemned following the 1868 Hayward earthquake and a replacement courthouse was completed in 1901. Court functions moved to the Hall of Records (since renamed the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse) following its completion in 1933; the former (1901) and current (1933) courthouses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and 1991, respectively. The 1901 courthouse, adjoining jail, and 1944 jail annex occupy the block bounded by Court, Main, Pine, and Escobar streets. William H. Toepke and Charles I. Havens were credited as th ...
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East Contra Costa Fire Protection District
East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ECCFPD) is an agency that is responsible for providing fire protection in the most eastern section of Contra Costa. The district currently has three fire stations with three fire fighters each. Its territory covers 247 square miles and includes two cities, plus much of the county's unincorporated area. The incorporated cities are: Antioch, Brentwood, and Oakley. Unincorporated community areas are Bethel Island, Discovery Bay, Byron, Knightsen and Marsh Creek/Morgan Territory. As of 2020, the district claims that it serves a population of 128,000."About the District." ''East Contra Costa Fire Protection District''. 2020.
Accessed June 18, 020.
Financial support is primarily from property taxes collected by the county.


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San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District
The San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the cities of Alamo, Blackhawk, Danville, Diablo, Camino Tassajara and San Ramon as well as southern areas of the Morgan Territory in California, United States. In all, the district is responsible for with a population of approximately 192,800. History The San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District was first started in 1912, when it was decided that a volunteer fire department needed to be organized to provide services to the community. This first department became known as the Danville Farm Defense Fire District. In 1921, after a state law was passed allowing the organization of special fire districts, the district was renamed the Danville Fire Protection District and expanded to cover nearly . In 1963, Contra Costa County reorganized its East County Fire Protection District into the San Ramon Fire Protection District, an independent district. This led to the Local Age ...
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Contra Costa Times
The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded as the ''Contra Costa Times'', and took its current name in 2016 when it was merged with other sister papers in the East Bay. Its oldest merged title is the ''Oakland Tribune'' founded in 1874. History The original ''Contra Costa Times'' was founded by Dean Lesher in 1947, and served central Contra Costa County, especially Walnut Creek. However, Lesher began expanding by purchasing weekly newspapers in neighboring communities, as well as two eastern Contra Costa daily papers, the '' Antioch Ledger'' and the ''Pittsburg Post-Dispatch''. Originally the weekly newspapers were free for shoppers, but Lesher gradually converted the papers to "controlled circulation" in 1962, an aggressive a ...
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CalPERS
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is an agency in the California executive branch that "manages pension and health benefits for more than 1.5 million California public employees, retirees, and their families".CalPERSFacts at a glance: general. January 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2008. In fiscal year 2020–21, CalPERS paid over $27.4 billion in retirement benefits,CalPERSFacts at a Glance - Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF), 2020-21CalPERS. 2021. Retrieved October 09, 2021. and over $9.74 billion in health benefits.CalPERSFacts at a Glance - Health Benefits, 2019-20CalPERS. 2021. Retrieved October 09, 2021. CalPERS manages the largest public pension fund in the United States, with more than $469 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2021. CalPERS is known for its shareholder activism; stocks placed on its "Focus List" may perform better than other stocks, which has given rise to the term "CalPERS effect".Sidel, Robin. "Ca ...
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Organizations Based In Contra Costa County, California
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, includin ...
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Retirement Plans In The United States
A retirement plan is a financial arrangement designed to replace employment income upon retirement. These plans may be set up by employers, insurance companies, trade unions, the government, or other institutions. Congress has expressed a desire to encourage responsible retirement planning by granting favorable tax treatment to a wide variety of plans. Federal tax aspects of retirement plans in the United States are based on provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the plans are regulated by the Department of Labor under the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Types of retirement plans Retirement plans are classified as either defined benefit plans or defined contribution plans, depending on how benefits are determined. In a defined benefit (or pension) plan, benefits are calculated using a fixed formula that typically factors in final pay and service with an employer, and payments are made from a trust fund specifically dedicated to the plan. Se ...
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