From AZCentral.com: Peoria Fire Chief Thomas Solberg will resign as part of a settlement over a pension dispute with the city.
The settlement comes less than two months after Solberg filed a $3.6 million claim notice with the city, a precursor to a lawsuit.

Solberg, who came to Peoria in 2009 from Missouri, was in the Arizona State Retirement System for 14 months before he was removed because he was a fire-department employee. ASRS officials said he should have been in the state retirement system for public-safety personnel. But the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System initially would not take Solberg because he was not a frontline officer performing hazardous duties.

Recently, state legislation required the Public Safety Retirement System to take in fire chiefs such as Solberg. He declined to join because it would have meant less retirement benefits than he'd anticipated because of differences in the two systems' term structures.

In his claim notice, Solberg had pegged his losses at $1.6 million based on the premise that he could have worked an additional 10 years in Missouri. He sought an additional $2 million for personal injury, pain, suffering and economic damage. The latter included an estimated $946,800 he expected to get for more than 25 years in pension payments from ASRS.

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