10-10-11 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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Ayes: Councilmembers Moser, Kaminski, Zemanek, Leonard, and Mayor Rigby Nays: Councilmembers Clausen, Martin, Engelken, and Mosteit Mayor Rigby clarified the motion and provided direction to Human Resource Manager Heather Weger by indicating bullet points on the agenda request as follows: Bullet points one, three, four, five and six below were fine as presented. • No changes to In- network benefits • Increasing the coinsurance for out of network benefits from 40% to 50% for both Healthfund plans. • Modifying the plan to pay out -of network benefits at 110% of Medicare allowable costs for professional fees and 140% of Medicare allowable costs for facility fees. • Increasing the copay for formulary brand name drugs from $25 to $30 • Increasing the copay for non - formulary brand name drugs from $50 to $60. Bullet points two and seven are to come back with different options for consideration. • Increasing the Out -of- network deductibles from $2,000 to $3,000 for the HealthFund 1000 plan and from $1,000 to $3,000 for the PPO 500 plan • Increasing the monthly premiums for active employees on the PPO 500 plan as follows: o $20 for employee only coverage o $40 for Employee + Spouse Coverage o $60 for Employee + Children coverage o $80 for Family coverage 8. PUBLIC HEARING AND ASSOCIATED MATTERS (a) Public Hearing to receive comments regarding condemnation of the substandard building at 1307 E. Main — D. Wilmore City Council opened the public hearing at 7:16 p.m., which is a continuance of the public hearing from June 27, 2011, regarding condemnation of substandard building located at 1307 E. Main Building Official Debbie Wilmore presented a summary and reported there has not been any change to the property, and there was not a family representative present at the public hearing. There was no public input. Councilmember Zemanek moved to continue the public hearing to the next Council Meeting on October 10, 2011. Councilmember Moser seconded. MOTION PASSED. Ayes: Mayor Rigby, Councilmembers Leonard, Zemanek, Mosteit, Engelken, Moser, Kaminski and Martin Nays: Councilmember Clausen (b) Consider approval or other action of an ordinance condemning building located at 1307 E. Main — D. Wilmore There was no action taken on Item 8(b). Page 4 of 7 September 26, 2011, City Council Meeting Minutes