HomeMy WebLinkAbout1985-2835 HEALTH BENEFITS & HOSPITAL, MEDICAL & DENTAL INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN RETIRED EMPLOYEES, SPOUSES & DEPEN ORDINAN4,N0.2 5
AN ORDINANCE relating to City government personnel; providing
health benefits and hospital, medical and dental
insurance coverage for certain retired employees,
spouses, and dependents; amending Section 2.04.040
and enacting Sections 2.04.050 and 2.04.060 as new
• Sections, all of the City of Yakima Municipal Code;
and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 2.04.040 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"2.04.040 Hospital and Medical Insurance -- Retired
Employee and Dependent Coverage.
A. Retired Employees. The following described retired
City employees shall be eligible to remain enrolled in the
group hospital and medical insurance plan and to obtain
coverage for their eligible dependents until the retired
employee reaches sixty -five years of age by paying a
premium (including the premium for dependents, if enrolled)
equal to the actual group rate for coverage of active
City employees and enrolled dependents:
1. City employees who retire on or after January 1,
1982, and who at the time of their retirement work in
positions within the bargaining unit of the American
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local
1122; and
2. City employees who retire on or after January 1,
1983, and who at the time of their retirement work in any
of the following positions:
a. All fire department positions,
b. All commissioned police department officers,
c. All employees in exempt classifications specified
by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code,
and
d. All other positions defined by the policy as being
eligible for coverage.
B. Spouses of Retired Employees. Spouses of retired
commissioned police department officers, retired Fire
Chiefs and Deputy Fire Chiefs and retired employees who,
at the time of retirement, were in exempt classifications
specified by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code, which spouses are otherwise eligible for coverage under
provisions of the insurance policy, shall be eligible to
remain enrolled in the group hospital and medical insurance
plan until those spouses reach the age of 65 years (or in the case of
spouses of deceased retirees, until the spouse remarries) by paying a
premiums equal to the actual group rate for enrolled dependents."
Section 2. Section 2.04.050 is hereby enacted as a new
section of the. City of Yakima Municipal Code to read as follows:
"2.04.050 Dental Insurance Plan -- Retired Employee
Coverage.
• A. Retired Employees. The following described retired
City employees who retire on or after January 1, 1983,
shall be eligible to remain enrolled in'the group dental
insurance plan and to obtain coverage for their eligible
dependents until the retired employee reaches 65 years of
age by paying a premium (including the premium for dependents,
if enrolled) equal to the actual group rate for coverage of
active City employees and enrolled dependents:
1. Chief and Deputy Chief of the Yakima Fire Depart-
ment;
2. Chief, captains and lieutenants of the Yakima Police
Department; and
3. All employees in exempt classifications specified
by Section 2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code.
B. Spouses of employees retired from positions specified
in Subsection A of this section, which spouses are other-
wise eligible for coverage under provisions of the insurance
policy, shall be eligible to remain enrolled in the group
dental insurance plan until those spouses reach the age of
65 years (or in the case of spouses of deceased retirees,
until the spouse remarries) by paying a premium equal to the
actual group rate for enrolled dependents."
Section 3. Section 2.04.060 is hereby enacted as a new
section of the City of Yakima Municipal Code to read as follows:
"2.04.060 Physical Examination. Lieutenants, captains
and the Chief of the Yakima Police Department, the Deputy
Chief and Chief of the Yakima Fire Department, and all em-
ployees in exempt classifications specified by Section
2.20.100 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code shall be
eligible to voluntarily receive a biennial physical exami-
nation, to be performed by a physician chosen by the indi-
vidual employee, the cost of which shall be shared equally
by the employee and the City; provided, the maximum payment
by the City shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00)
for any such examination."
Section 4. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and
welfare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is
hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force
and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication
as provided by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this
day of r L>r\y „ ) k k s \K , 1985.
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iksr Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Publication DatefAN 1 8 1988
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Effective DatelAll 1 919115_
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