08-24-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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(c) Family Leave. The Family and Medical Leave Act Policy is, hereby, incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. (d) Insurance. (1) Comprehensive Major Medical Insurance Program/Preferred Provider Organization (PPOI. The City shall maintain a comprehensive major medical insurance program that all non bargaining employees may participate in under the rules and guidelines of the plan document. All employees receive a copy of a plan document each year. (2) Short and Long Term Disability. Short and Long Term Disability shall be as set forth in the City's Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, as it may be amended from time to time, which is incorporated herein by reference. (3) Payment for Election to Leave Employer's Comprehensive Major Medical Insurance Program. The City shall pay one hundred and thirty dollars ($130) per month ($65 biweekly) to any Employee who elects to leave the City's comprehensive major medical insurance program to be covered by another program for which the City makes no contribution. This election shall not be mandatory, and the Employee who made such election may return to the City's comprehensive major medical Insurance Program, provided that the conditions of the City's Comprehensive Major Medical Insurance Program are met, and the contributions specified herein are made, but in such event said Employee shall forfeit the one hundred and thirty dollars ($130) payment per month thereafter. (4) Life Insurance. The City shall provide term life insurance coverage in an amount not less than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) for each employee except for Police and Fire which are as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement. Such insurance sha11 become effective upon the award of a group life insurance bid by the Board of Public Works, or upon the beginning of the plan year, whichever is later. (5) Benefit Waiting Period. The City notes that life insurance, comprehensive major Medical Insurance, and short term disability programs require a minimum of sixty (60) day eligibility period; and that the long-term disability program requires a minimum of a ninety (90) day eligibility period which must be met. (e) Hiring Bonus. The Mayor, may, at his/her discretion, offer a Hiring Bonus to a new employee as an incentive for the employee to accept the position offered. This Bonus will be paid to the employee in addition to the salary set forth in the Salary Ordinance. The range of these monetary bonuses will be from one hundred ($100) to four thousand ($4,000).