The Murrieta Police Department received the Murrieta City Council approval to request a California Public Employees Retirement System 180-day wait period exception to hire a retired senior dispatcher to fill one of eight vacant positions needed at the joint Murrieta Menifee Dispatch Center.Under CalPERS, of which Murrieta City public employees are a part of, once a member leaves their position early, for retirement or otherwise, they must wait 180 days before they can be hired again by a public agency, unless granted an exception. If the exception is granted the hiree would be allowed only 960 hours per year at the standard base salary in the terms.In the hiring of trained combined fire and police dispatchers, which are necessary with Murrieta Police and Murrieta Fire & Rescue,
