Pellegrino v. Springfield Parking Authority

Kathleen Pellegrino entered into two parallel contracts for the same public job. Her goal (and the apparent goal of the other governmental participants and signatories) was for her to remain in the State pension system and, at the same *95time, become an employee, at full salary, for the Springfield Parking Authority (SPA), a quasi public agency that is technically separate from the city of Springfield (city), and where employees are not pension participants. In brief, the parties attempted to provide pension benefits for a public employee whose job excluded such benefits, hence, to circumvent…