1.4.204: EMPLOYEE INSURANCE BENEFITS:
A. Group Life Insurance: For the benefit of City employees, a group life insurance plan shall be made available to regular, special and probationary employees who are employed to work twenty (20) or more hours per week. This plan is mandatory for all employees upon employment with the City. Each regular employee will be insured in accord with the provisions of the contract with the group life insurance carrier. The City shall pay the full cost of the premium. All retired employees may carry this insurance in accord with the provisions of the contract with the group life insurance carrier.
B. Group Medical Plans: The City shall offer group medical plans to all regular, special and probationary employees who are employed to work twenty (20) or more hours per week, and hourly employees who are eligible for benefits as required by applicable state or federal law. These employees may voluntarily enroll in one of the City's group medical plans. The City shall contribute an amount as set forth in the annual appropriation ordinance toward an employee's monthly medical plan premium.
Upon retirement, the City contribution toward a retired employee's postretirement medical care shall be as follows:
1. Employees who were eligible to retire on or before December 31, 1978, and who had been members of the City's medical plan for five (5) years prior to January 1, 1979, shall receive an amount equal to the full cost of their monthly retirement medical premiums.
2. Employees who were eligible to retire on or after January 1, 1979, and who were hired prior to August 1, 1988, shall receive an amount not to exceed ninety one dollars forty cents ($91.40) per month. The retirees who, prior to January 1, 1997, elected to waive or drop their medical plan shall not receive or subsequently be eligible for the contribution.
3. Employees who retire on or after January 1, 1997, and who were hired prior to August 1, 1988, shall receive ninety one dollars forty cents ($91.40) per month.
4. Employees who were hired on or after August 1, 1988, shall not receive a contribution in any manner by the City for the purpose of postretirement medical care.
5. Notwithstanding any provision of the City Code or any previous action by City Council or City staff to the contrary:
a. No former employee who has retired from service with the City may participate in any group medical insurance plan offered to retired employees and their spouses if the former employee is eligible to participate in Medicare; and
b. No spouse of a former employee who has retired from service with the City may participate in any group medical insurance plan offered to retired employees and their spouses if the spouse is eligible to participate in Medicare. (Ord. 11-18; Ord. 14-98)
