ORD 1995-33 - Amend Personnel Policies 10-03-1995ORDINANCE 95 -33
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, AMENDING CHAPTER 12, NONDISCIPLINARY
SEPARATIONS, OF THE PERSONNEL RULES OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, TO PERMIT CERTAIN EMPLOYEES ELIGIBLE
FOR RETIREMENT, THEIR SPOUSES AND DEPENDENTS, TO REMAIN
MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE'S HEALTH PLAN, AND
MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED THERETO.
WHEREAS the Trustees of the Employee Medical Benefit Plan of the City of Huntsville,
Texas, have recommended certain changes in the City's personnel rules to
permit continued use of the City's health plan by employees eligible to retire,
and their spouses and dependents; and
WHEREAS the City Council wants to carry out these changes;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Chapter 12, " NONDISCIPLINARY SEPARATIONS," of the City of
Huntsville's Personnel Rules, is amended by adopting a new Section 4,
Retirement, that shall read:
Section 4. Retirement.
a. Eligible employees may separate from City employment by retirement according to
applicable programs. Permanent employees will retire from City employment on the
last day of the calendar year in which their 70th birthday occurs. The City may defer
an employee's retirement with the employee's consent and with the approval of the
City Manager and City Council, provided, that the employee must pass an
appropriate physical examination. The City will grant retirement deferments on a
year to year basis.
See 42 U.S.C. § 300bb -1.
b. A retired employee, may continue health plan coverage at the same cost that the City
sets for regular employees or employee dependents if the retired employee retires
with eighty or more points (age plus service). The City will continue to pay the
retired employee's health plan cost as if the retired employee were an employee of
the City while that retired employee remains a member of the City's health plan.
C. Except as provided in subsection b above,
1. A retired employee that retires under the Texas Municipal Retirement
System with seventy or more points, or
2. The spouse or a dependent of a retired employee with seventy or more points:
may purchase health plan benefits through the City's health plan to
continue the health plan coverage, if any, for the retired employee,
spouse or dependent that they maintained at the time of the
employee's retirement from the City under the following conditions:
3. The retired employee, spouse or dependent, must pay in advance by bank
draft (ACH) the health plan cost established by the City for the employee,
spouse or dependent plus a two (2) percent administrative fee; and
4. The City will stop health plan coverage if payments are more than one month
delinquent; and
d. The scope of health plan coverage for retirees and their spouses or dependents will
be subject to the same terms and conditions, and changes to terms and conditions,
as that for regular employees and/or dependents.
e. To be eligible for health plan coverage, the City's health plan must cover the retired
employee, the retired employee's spouse and/or dependent at the time of the
employee's retirement from the City. The City will not permit the addition of new
dependents to the health plan after the employee's retirement. If a retired employee,
or that retired employee's spouse and/or dependents stop health plan coverage for
any reason, then the city will not permit the retired employee and/or spouse or
dependent, as appropriate, to reenter the City health plan.
f. If an employee dies while employed by the City with sufficient points to have retired,
then the City will treat the employee as a retired employee as of the date of death.
g. An employee that retires under any of the disability retirement options of the Texas
Municipal Retirement System (T. M. R. S.) will not be eligible for any of the health
plan benefits described in the section unless qualified by age and years of service as
described. In any event, the City requires a minimum of ten years employment
service for the City for any of the health plan benefits described herein.
h. The City provides additional retirement benefits through the Municipal Retirement
System. All regular employees working], 000 hours or more per year are eligible
to enroll. Each employee is required to deposit 6 % of their salary to the retirement
fund. The City makes a contribution equal to 12 % of the employee's salary;
however, the employee vests to the City money only after (ten) 10 years service.
Additional information regarding T.M.R.S. is available through the Human
Resources Division. Eligible employees may retire with 20 years of service at any
age or at age 55 with at least ten years of service.
I. The City does not participate in social security (the Federal Insurance Contribution
Act). Employees hired by the City after April 1, 1986, however, are required to
participate in medicare; and employees not eligible to participate in the Texas
Municipal Retirement System shall elect to contribute 7.5% or more of their
compensation to the City's Section 457 deferred compensation program.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its adoption by City Council.
APPROVED this 3rd day of October, 1995.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
William B. Green, Mayor
ATTEST:
Danna Welter, City Secretary
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Scott Bounds, City Attorney