General Plan, and would authorize Dakota County to provide financial and accounting services to Metropolitan Inter-County Association employees.
Local approval is required.
The effect is to declare that employees of this society will be entitled to PERA General coverage, providing salary thresholds and similar requirements are met. The bills include language stating that the Dakota County Agricultural Society employees are not county employees for any other purpose. The primary issue raised by the bill is whether these employee positions are sufficiently governmental in nature that inclusion in PERA General is warranted. However, there are situations in all these plans where individuals in private sector employment or quasi-public sector employment are included. An example is coverage provided for labor union officials who represent public sector employee groups.