Retired Sarasota County employee Tim Brown wrote this letter to county commissioners: I am a retired Sarasota County employee with 30 years of service with the Sarasota County government ...

I have a few questions that I have not seen answered. The money paid into the Public Employee Retirement System by an employer is instead of Social Security and pay increases. Once it goes to PERS ...

as outlined in Lynn Pike’s recent letter. I retired in 1995. With all my leave added up, I had 32 years’ service. We state employees who have retired paid into the retirement system.