Beggs v. City of Portales

OPINION

DANIELS, Justice.

{1} This case requires us to analyze the legal consequences of a written personnel policy provision enacted by a city ordinance that required the City of Portales (“the city”) to offer to its retiring employees the option of continuing their health care coverage under the city’s group plan at the active employee premium reimbursement rate. The Petitioners (“Retirees”) accepted the city’s offers at the time each of them retired, before the city council enacted an ordinance deleting the retirement insurance provision from the city’s “Personnel Policy Manual” (“the…