Employee Benefit Trust Minutes - 10/15/2010City of Wichita Falls
Employee Benefits Trust Board Minutes
October 15th , 2010
The meeting was held in the City Council Conference Room, 1300 Seventh Street,
Wichita Falls, TX 76301.
Present: Darron Leiker, City Manager
Jim Dockery, Asst. City Manager/CFO
Miles Risley, City Attorney
Tammy Guerra, Human Resources Manager
Becky Chapman, Employee Benefits Coordinator
Agenda Items:
i. Call to Order: Meeting was called to order at 9:00 am.
ii. Approval of Minutes: Motion was made by Miles Risley to approve the
October 8th, 2010 minutes, second by Jim Dockery. The motion carried
unanimously.
iii. Review and approval of plan design changes recommended by IPS
Advisors: Recommended Plan Design Changes- 1) changing Medicare from
unlimited home healthcare visits/skilled nursing facilities visits to 100 day
limit, 2) raising the ER co -pay from $75 Enhanced/ $50 Core to $100 for
both the Core and Enhanced plans, 3) changing the primary care physicia n
co-pay from $45 Core/$30 Enhanced to primary $30 and $50 specialist for
both the Core and Enhanced plans, 4) adding free tobacco cessation aids to
the prescription program and 5) changing the active employees, retirees, and
firefighters life insurance from TMRS to Sunlife. A motion was made by
Darron to approve all of the above IPS recommendations, second by Tammy
Guerra. The motion carried unanimously.
iv. Open Session: Wellness Program: Annual Physicals-The City of Wichita
Falls has adopted a new Wellness Program for 2011. It will require
employees that are on the C ity’s health insurance to obtain an annual
physical and biometric screening which will be provided at no charge
through the onsite clinic or their medical provider. The City has decided to
let employees who are covered on our health insurance use the onsit e clinic
for the annual physical/biometric screenings at no charge effective 11/1/10.
Beginning 1/1/2011 an employee may use their personal medical provider
for the annual physical/biometric screenings at no charge which is a
directive from the health care reform where all preventative care will be
free. This information along with the forms their provider will need to fill
out will be included in the open enrollment paperwork that was sent out in
November. If the employee does not complete the annual physical and
biometric screening by 2/1/2011 they will incur a surcharge of $2.50 per pay
period for non compliance.
Tobacco Cessation Program- The new tobacco cessation program that the
City of Wichita Falls has adopted for 2011 will require employees that are
on the City’s health insurance plan to fill out a tobacco certification form
that was included in their open enrollment packet. If they certify that they
have used tobacco in the last six months they will incur a surcharge of $5.00
per paycheck beginning the first payroll in July 2011 until cessation
program has been completed. The employee has a choice of cessation
programs offered for free that they can choose from. The employee only
has to complete the cessation program not necessarily quit.
v. Adjourn at 9:36 am.