Agenda - Council - 09/12/1995 - Laserfiche WebLink

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NEW BUSINESS - 5 5.1 Administrator's Report Due to summer activities the Commission did not meet in June, however both the Personnel and the Budget Committees met. There were one topic to address that came up after the Personnel Committee met. The issue concerning insurance coverage for Bruce Chaffee. In the past Chaffee has received $45.00 per pay period as opposed to accepting insurance benefits. This situation has now changed due to a change in his wife's employment status and as a result he is interested in now receiving family coverage. The last employee to receive family coverage was in 1991. The city of Anoka pays $310.00 to the employees benefit package. Anything over and above that is paid for by the employee. The city of Champlin has separate policies for police, union and city workers, the amount of money for the employees range from $361.00. to $379.00. Andover pays $315.00 to the employees benefit package with anything over and above that coming out of the employees pocket and itamsey pays $291.00 to all employees across the board with the remainder, if any, is available for life insurance, dental insurance, deferred comp, etc. Balance is not paid to the employee. Currently, the employees at QCTV that have coverage are all under a single coverage policy with the highest being O'Connell who's insurance is costing about $144.00 per month with Robb being the lowest at $126.00 because of his age and Chaffee has a $90.00 reimbursement. O'Connell suggested that with Bruce waiving the $90.00 and the $400.00 that was allocated for M. Ebanks for insurance coverage (that will no longer be paid) would more than cover the estimated $345.00 needed to cover Bruce and his family. Discussion commenced about what was considered discriminatory and what wasn't. The group questioned whether it was fair or not for Chaffee to receive more money strictly because of his marital status. As a result he should receive the amount of dollars as the highest single coverage policy to put towards the cost of a family policy. It was brought up by O'Connell that at one time M. Lundeen had a policy for family coverage equal to what Anoka employees were making and more than the single coverage cost. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I' I I