181.24 MEDICAL AND HOSPITALIZATION INSURANCE.
(a) The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to expend that sum of money necessary to provide group insurance coverage to certain permanent full and part-time City employees, as designated to be eligible by the City Manager, to include certain major medical surgical, diagnostic, prescription, dental and maternity care benefits.
(b) Such insurance premiums shall be paid for in full by the City subject to any premium sharing arrangement determined by administration and shall be part of its regular insurance program, until changed by further action of Council.
(c) The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to expend that sum of money necessary to reimburse those employees of the City for personal or dependent coverage who are eligible and who participate in Medicare, Part B. The Finance Director shall require such proof as he deems necessary as evidence of participation in the Medicare B program as a condition for reimbursement.
(d) Permanent part-time employees whose normal average work schedule is less than forty but thirty or more hours per week shall be provided with an individual, single coverage health insurance plan subject to any premium sharing arrangement determined by administration. However, at the employee's option, the employee may purchase the group coverage as set forth in subsection (a) hereof, at a cost which equals the City's cost to provide the additional group coverage less the City’s cost for the single coverage health insurance plan. Permanent part-time employees hired before January 1, 2014 may maintain their existing health insurance coverage notwithstanding this subsection.
(e) Any person who is eligible for coverage under the City’s group health insurance plan may decline participation in the health and dental benefits plan provided that the participation requirement citywide for all plans included in the health and dental benefits plan package can be achieved without the person’s participation. Persons declining participation in the health and dental benefits plan shall be compensated an amount not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) annually. Such amount shall be payable as one hundred dollars ($100.00) per pay period (based on 24 pays) for such non-participation during a full twelve (12) month plan year. Said compensation shall be taxable to said person. On a form provided by the City, such persons shall execute a written declination of coverage which acknowledges that the City shall have no responsibility for liability for the health or dental benefits or expenses of the person or his/her dependent and that re-enrollment in the plan(s) shall be subject to the provisions of the respective health or dental benefits plan. Compensation for non-participation shall not be paid to anyone who receives coverage as the spouse of another City employee.
(Ord. 2020-12-132. Passed 12-9-20.)