Annual Pay Fringe Benefits South Bend Department 1993 & 1994

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• • • South Bend Police Salary Ordinance Page 6 enough money available to pay all who have requested payment,the excess requests will be processed with the 1990 requests for payment. (4.) A maximum amount of money will be included in the 1990 budget to pay off remaining 1989 requests for payment and 1990 request for payment. Requests for each year will be paid on a seniority basis with 1989 requests being paid first. Requests which cannot be paid during 1990 will be rolled over into the 1991 budget. (5.)Each year thereafter officers wishing to be paid for frozen accumulated time, including officers who are planning to retire, must advise the Police Chief in writing no later than June 30th in order to receive payment by the following June 30th. Funds will be included in the budget to pay any unpaid requests from the previous year and the requests for the next year,pending budget limitations. (6.) A request for payment for frozen accumulated time must be for a minimum of 100 hours unless the total amount of hours in the officer's account is less than 100 hours. (7.)A procedure will be established to allow an officer to be paid as quickly as possible for accumulated time in the event an officer experiences severe financial hardship resulting from a sudden, unexpected illness or accident to him/herself or a dependant (as defined in IRS Section 152(a)), loss of property due to casualty, or other similar or extraordinary and unforeseeable and unforeseen events beyond the officers control and which events are not reimbursed or compensated by insurance or otherwise. (8.) A procedure will be established to provide for payment of all accumulated time in the event of separation from employment by reason of resignation, termination or unanticipated retirement. (9.) The City reserves the right to pay off any and/or all accumulated time at its discretion. (b) The above-stated Accumulated Time Policy is subject to review by the State Board of Accounts. Any changes to said policy recommended by the State Board of Accounts, shall be duly made, with notice thereof being given by the City to the South Bend Police Department in a reasonable manner. SECTION VII. Insurance Benefits. (a) Health Care Insurance Committee Continued. The Health Care Insurance Committee shall continue to operate in an advisory capacity to and under the direction of the City Controller. This Committee shall be composed of representatives of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 36, and employees of the Department of Administration and Finance of the City of South Bend, Indiana, together with other employees of the City of South Bend. It shall be the responsibility of the Committee to review, under the direction of the City Controller, on a regular basis the activities of the City's Health Care Insurance Program. (b) Comprehensive Major Medical Insurance Program/PPO. The City shall maintain a comprehensive major medical insurance program. This program shall contain comprehensive major medical insurance coverage which includes a$750.00 annual deductible, and which shall be subject to a 70/30 co-insurance payment up to a limit of $1,500.00 per year. In the event that the City establishes a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), it shall be subject to a 90/10 co-insurance payment per year. (c) Employee Contribution. The contribution by officers and sworn members [employees] who desires single health insurance coverage for the self-funded insurance program of the City of South Bend shall be $10.00 per month in plan year 1993. The contribution by an officer or a sworn member [employee] who desires dependent health insurance coverage for the self-funded insurance program of the City of South Bend shall be $40.00 per month in plan year 1993. The monthly contribution for officers and sworn members [employees] for both single and dependent coverage in plan year 1994 shall