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Coalition Accomplishments

  • Health Benefits Agreement with built-in cost of living increases
  • Established a Medical Insurance Trust for Retirement
  • Collaboration with City to avoid layoffs
  • Collaborated with the City in the implementation of a flexible 125-plan to permit employees to set aside pretax earnings to pay for out of pocket medical costs
  • Enhancement to PERS Retirement formula to 2% at 55 (from 2% at 60)
  • Revised evaluation forms
  • Enhanced PERS Death Benefits
  • Renegotiated the umbrella agreement between the Coalition and the City for its continuing monthly contributions to the medical insurance trust and for the composite cap for health insurance premium costs that will address the needs of the employees.
  • Enhancement of PERS Retirement formula to 2.7% @ 55 (this is the second enhancement under the coalition. Initially was at 2% at 60 than secured enhancement to 2% at 55 four years ago).
  • Renewed three year Medical Insurance Umbrella Agreement (FY 2007-8 to FY 2009-10)

Medical Insurance Committee

Coalition and Medical Trust Board Member, Claudia Brick, will be the new chair of the Coalition’s Medical Insurance Sub-Committee. As a trustee for the Retirement Medical Trust, she recently attended a three-day training seminar for  trustees.  In the course of the formal sessions she came across ideas and strategies that will prove useful in the Coalition's 2010 negotiations with the City over Medical and Retirement benefits. The Committee will review medical benefit programs and consider present and future medical insurance needs, services and issues of coalition members—particularly in terms of future agreements with the City and the operations of providers.

The current three-year agreement between the Coalition and the City for medical benefits runs through June 30, 2010. Negotiations are expected to begin next spring.

With hard work and some fresh ideas, the Coalition is committed to continue coverage at the same level. We are hopeful this can be accomplished without an out-of-pocket contribution.

    
 

If you feel you have some information or suggestions which would help the committee achieve these goals please forward your remarks to:

coalitionsmce@verizon.net

or via U.S. mail:

Coalition of Santa Monica City Employees
P.O. Box 3007
Santa Monica, CA 90408-3007
Attn: Medical Insurance Committee
 

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