(a) The City of Richmond Heights will institute a comprehensive insurance plan for health care benefits for all full-time non-bargaining unit employees, the terms of which may change from time to time at the City’s sole discretion.
(b) Each full-time, non-bargaining unit employee shall contribute fifteen percent (15%) of the actual cost of her or his particular health insurance plan, including fifteen percent (15%) of the actual cost of the dental and eye care plan, through a pre-tax payroll deduction.
(c) Any employee who is eligible to receive health care benefits from the City and who agrees in writing not to receive any health care, dental care and vision care benefits from the City, shall receive a payment of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month in lieu of receiving such benefits.
(d) The City shall be responsible on behalf of employees, depending on their insurance plan status (family or single), for up to either five thousand dollars ($5,000) of the family deductible or up to two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) of the single deductible through a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA). The City will establish a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) which will be administered by a qualified third-party administrator selected and paid for by the City.
(e) All part-time non-bargaining unit employees and elected officials may participate in the City’s comprehensive insurance plan for health care benefits, but each such employee and elected official shall be solely responsible for the cost of all premiums for that employee’s or official’s or the employee’s/official’s family, participation in the plan and such employees and elected officials shall not be eligible to participate in any health reimbursement arrangement plan. (Ord. 24-2023. Passed 2-14-23.)