By Laura Bischoff, includes “The Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund is asking lawmakers to boost how much local governments pay into cops and firefighters' retirement system – a move that could cost those communities hundreds of millions of dollars. … He added, ‘Employers should pay their fair share and the time to act is now while local governments are in a strong financial position.’ … Ohio's five public pension systems serve 675,000 government employees, 1.1 million inactive members and 485,000 beneficiaries. Collectively, the five systems have more than $250 billion in investment assets.”