Both police and fire are high-stress jobs, and those who retire from these occupations tend to do so at a younger age than those in other career paths, White wrote in an email. This change provides the city s police officers and firefighters with the opportunity to essentially make a career change and remain employed by the city in a totally different capacity.
According to Sheldon, every employee hired by the city enters into a general pension plan, which is very different than the pension plans for the police and fire departments.
Because of that, Whitman needed the ability to get out of his current police department plan before entering into a new pension plan as manager.
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