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FINANCIAL SECTION

G. DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

The City offers its employees a deferred compensation plan created in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 457. The plan, available to all City employees, permits them to defer a portion of their salary to future years subject to maximum deferral limitations provided in the plan.

The deferred compensation is not available to employees until termination, retirement, death or unforeseeable emergency. The plan assets are held in trust for the exclusive benefit of participating employees under the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996. Also, the City has little administrative involvement and does not perform the investing function for the plan. As a result, the assets and liabilities associated with the plan are excluded from the City’s financial statements. The City does not contribute to the plan.

H. PENSION PLAN

Plan Description

Employees of the City are members of the Political Subdivision Pension Plan (PSPP), an agent multiple-employer defined benefit pension plan administered by the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS). TCRS provides retirement benefits as well as death and disability benefits. Benefits are determined by a formula using the member’s high five-year average salary and years of service. Members become eligible to retire at the age of 60 with five years of service or at any age with 30 years of service. A reduced retirement benefit is available to vested members at the age of 55. Disability benefits are available to active members with five years of service who became disabled and cannot engage in gainful employment. There is no service requirement for disability that is a result of an accident or injury occurring while the member was in the performance of duty. Members joining the system after July 1, 1979 become vested after five years of service and members joining prior to July 1, 1979 were vested after four years of service. Benefit provisions are established in state statutes found in Title 8, Chapter 34-37 of the Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA). State statutes are amended by the Tennessee General Assembly. Political subdivisions such as City of White House, Tennessee participate in the TCRS as individual entities and are liable for all costs associated with the operation and administration of their plan. Benefit improvements are not applicable to a political subdivision unless approved by the chief governing body.

The TCRS issues a publicly available financial report that includes financial statements and required supplementary information for the PSPP. That report may be obtained by writing to Tennessee Treasury Department, Consolidated Retirement System, 10th Floor, Andrew Jackson Building, Nashville, Tennessee 37243-0230 or can be accessed at http://www.tn.gov/treasury/tcrs/PS/.

CITY OF WHITE HOUSE, TENNESSEE NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2014

H. PENSION PLAN - Continued

Funding Policy

The City requires employees to contribute 5.00% of earnable compensation.

The City is required to contribute at an actuarially determined rate; the rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 was 5.89% of annual covered payroll. The contribution requirements of plan members are set by state statute. The contribution requirements for the City are established and may be amended by the TCRS Board of Trustees.

Annual Pension Cost

For the year ended June 30, 2014, the City’s annual pension cost of $186,991 to TCRS was equal to the City’s required and actual contributions. The required contribution was determined as part of the July 1, 2011 actuarial valuation using the frozen entry age actuarial cost method. Significant actuarial assumptions used in the valuation include (a) rate of return on investment of present and future assets of 7.50% per year compounded annually, (b) projected 3.00% annual rate of inflation, (c) projected salary increases of 4.75% (graded) annual rate (no explicit assumption is made regarding the portion attributable to the effects of inflation on salaries), (d) projected 3.50% annual increase in the Social Security wage base, and (e) projected post retirement increases of 2.50% annually.

The actuarial value of assets was determined using techniques that smooth the effect of short-term volatility in the market value of total investments over a ten-year period. The City’s unfunded actuarial accrued liability is being amortized as a level dollar amount on a closed basis. The remaining amortization period at July 1, 2011 was 4 years. An actuarial valuation was performed as of July 1, 2011, which established contribution rates effective July 1, 2012.

Following is a schedule of trend information for the City:

Percentage

Annual Pension of APC Net Pension Fiscal Year Ended June 30, Cost (APC) Contributed Obligation

2014 $186,991 100.0% $ -

2013 168,706 100.0% -

2012 166,868 100.0% -

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As of July 1, 2013, the most recent actuarial valuation date, the plan was 97.44% funded.

The actuarial accrued liability for benefits was $5.28 million, and the actuarial value of assets was $5.15 million, resulting in an unfunded actuarial accrued liability (UAAL) of

$0.14 million. The covered payroll (annual payroll of active employees covered by the plan) was $2.85 million, and the ratio of the UAAL to the covered payroll was 4.74%.

The schedule of funding progress, presented as required supplementary information (RSI) following the notes to the financial statements, presents multiyear trend information about whether the actuarial values of plan assets are increasing or decreasing over time relative to the AALs for benefits.

Following is the schedule of funding progress for the City:

Actuarial

The City is exposed to various risks of loss related to torts; theft of, damage to, and destruction of assets; errors and omissions; injuries to employees; and natural disasters. The City participates in the Tennessee Municipal League Risk Management Pool (“the Pool”).

The Pool operates as a common risk-sharing pool by which governments pool risks and funds and share in the costs of losses. The City pays annual premiums to the Pool for its general liability insurance coverage, law enforcement liability, errors and omissions liability, auto liability, workers’ compensation and property coverage. The City’s workers’

compensation coverage is retrospectively rated, whereby premiums are accrued based on the ultimate costs of the experience of the City. Claims arising are paid by the Pool. The Pool has the right to assess participants for loss experience in excess of premiums collected. The City’s settled claims have not exceeded insurance coverage in any of the past three fiscal years.

CITY OF WHITE HOUSE, TENNESSEE NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2014

I. RISK MANAGEMENT - Continued

Through March 31, 2012, the City had a self-funded insurance plan for City employees and their covered dependents to minimize the total cost of medical, dental and prescription drug insurance to the City. This program was for the benefit of all City employees and their covered dependents. Employees contributed to the plan to cover a portion of the estimated cost of dependent medical, dental and prescription drug coverage. Generally, claims exceeding $50,000 per individual per coverage period (April 1 to March 31) were reinsured through a private insurance carrier. The City also acquired $2,000,000 in aggregate stop loss coverage from the reinsurer to cover claims during the coverage period that exceeded

$453,980. This plan was accounted for through the City’s only internal service fund, the Health Care Fund.

Effective April 1, 2012, the City terminated the portion of the self-funded plan for medical and prescription drug insurance and has contracted with a commercial insurance carrier to provide employee medical and prescription drug insurance for the benefit of the City’s employees. The City continues to maintain a self-funded plan for dental insurance, which is administered by a third party, and remains the only activity of the Health Care Fund (Internal Service Fund).

Changes in the City’s claims liability amount are as follows:

Liability

Amounts received or receivable from grantor agencies are subject to audit and adjustment by grantor agencies, principally the Federal and State governments. Any disallowed claims, including amounts already collected, may constitute a liability of the applicable funds. The amount, if any, of expenditures which may be disallowed by the grantors cannot be determined at this time although the City’s management expects such amounts, if any, to be immaterial.

The City is subject to various claims and legal activities, which arise from time to time;

however, the outcome of these claims and legal actions is not presently determinable. City Management, in consultation with legal counsel, does not expect any possible liability to materially exceed the City’s limits of insurance.

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