07-24-07 Chapter 172 Employee Retiree Insurance and Benefits Board Meeting

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Comments Steve Valerius: I sympathize with you extremely for what you are saying Clark from a political stand point. However, those people could have shown up. I move that we have a quorum we accept the quorum's recommendation and we see what the rest of the folks have to say. Comments Clark Askins: This is to recommend to Council that the contract be awarded to Aetna. Robert Swanagan: Ok, Steve Valerius made the motion, Michael Dolby second the Motion. All in favor show of hands. The Motion carries. We will make a recommendation to Council that the Chapter 172 recommends Aetna as the administrator of the plan January 1,2008. Comments Robert Swanagan: We do have in place all of the mechanisms to begin to have employee education meetings in August. We will be able to have Open Enrollment in October and still have the months of November and December to make sure everything goes into effect January 1, 2008. This way all retirees and active employees know exactly what is in the new plan and how it works. I do not have an administrative Report. Comments Clark Askins: I am looking forward to our next meeting so that we can have a chance to look at re- working/re-vamping the Ordinance that established the Board. There were a number of things that impacted the establishment of this Board and I think that at the next called meeting we should began to address some of these issues/ questions. Clark also mentioned that he wanted to ask that we amend the retiree health policy to specify that under Chapter 175 of the Local Governrnent Code retirees who qualify under TMRS but don't have 80 points can participate in the plan at their own expense. Motion was made to adjourn the meeting at 6:28 pm by Steve Valerius. Motion seconded by Karen Beerman. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned. Respectfully submitted, ~.L.~~ Robert Swanagan, HR Staff' Approved this 6th day of September, 2007