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Staff: Carroll Hayden / Irma Carson
For: Alan Tandy, City Manager Mark Salvaggio
AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
SPECIAL MEETING · PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
Monday, August 30, 2004 - 4:15 p.m.
City Manager's Conference Room, Suite 201
Second Floor, City Hall, 1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA
1. ROLL CALL
Called to Order at 4:15 p.m.
Present: Councilmembers Harold Hanson, Chair; Irma Carson; and Mark Salvaggio
2. ADOPT AUGUST 19, 2004 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
Adopted as submitted.
3. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
4, NEW BUSINESS
A. Review and Committee recommendation on 2005 health insurance plan
design changes
Human Resources Manager Carroll Hayden reported the Insurance Committee
met on Friday, August 27, 2004, and decided not to recommend any health
insurance plan design changes for 2005. The Insurance Committee did
recommend the employees' portion of the surplus in the Blue Cross PPO plans
stay in reserve to help mitigate 2005 premium increases.
Committee Chair Hanson expressed while he was in agreement with the
Insurance Committee recommendations, he would have liked a little more dialog
with the union representatives regarding plan design changes. Particularly the
suggestion of a $75 copayment for hospital emergency room visits, which might
have been helpful to encourage more employees to go to urgent care centers if
possible, instead of going to hospital emergency rooms. In California there is a
critical issue of people using hospital emergency rooms for non-emergency
visits, which puts pressure On the medical system.
Agenda Summary Report
Personnel Committee Meeting
Monday, August 30, 2004
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Committee Member Carson expressed she was glad this recommendation did
not include cutting employee benefits and stated she was in support of allowing
the surplus to remain in reserve.
Committee Chair Hanson thanked Tim Beck and Michael Schionning from Mellon
and expressed the Committee's appreciation for their efforts.
Committee Member Salvaggio made a motion to accept the recommendations
made by the Insurance Committee and requested staff to forward an
administrative report to the City Council recommending adoption of the proposed
renewals in the health insurance plan for calendar year 2005. The Committee
unanimously approved the motion.
Committee Member Carson explained she had requested an item be put on this
agenda regarding staffing of Fire squads and it was not included and asked
when another Committee meeting was scheduled.
As the Personnel Committee had no meetings scheduled at this time, Committee
Member Salvaggio suggested Human Resources Manager Hayden refer staffing
of Fire squads to the City Manager.
5. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 4:35 p.m.
Attendees: Assistant City Manager John Stinson; City Attorney Ginny Gennaro;
Human Resources Manager Carroll Hayden; Ginger Rueben, Human Resources
Benefits; Bill Ware and Patrick Hayes, Police Department; Tim Beck and Michael
Schionning from Mellon
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