Number
080791
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
080372
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution clarifying management retiree health insurance premiums.
Analysis
This resolution clarifies Common Council File Number 080372, adopted July 30, 2008, which directed the Department of Employee Relations to charge management employees a health insurance premium of $20 per month for single coverage and $40 per month for family coverage. Specifically, this ordinance directs the Department of Employee Relations to:
1. Provide all management retirees under, and until they reach, the age of 65 who completed normal service retirement since January 1, 2004 or will retire prior to January 1, 2009, and were at least age 60 and had completed at least 15 years of employment, or were at least age 55 and had completed at least 30 years of employment, with the City immediately prior thereto, the lowest-cost plan for single or family coverage at no premium cost to the retirees.
2. Notify all current management employees that beginning January 1, 2009, the City will no longer offer a $0 premium plan to management retirees under 65 years of age who complete normal service retirement, but all management retirees after January 1, 2009, will pay the same as active management employees for single and for family coverage.
3. Notify all management retirees under 65 who have completed normal service retirement from January 1, 2004 or plan to retire prior to January 1, 2009, that they will have a $0 premium plan until they turn 65 years of age.
Body
Whereas, Common Council File Number 020479, adopted July 16, 2002, states that the rate structure for health insurance for all management employees who retire on or after January 1, 2004, will be the same as it is for active management employees; and
Whereas, During 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, the City provided both management employees and management retirees with a $0 premium health plan; and
Whereas, Common Council File...
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