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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Ct.JI itra
DATE: June 23 , 1992 C ^
SUBJECT; 1st Choice Employee Benefits Trust
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Approve and authorize the Chair, Board of Supervisors, to execute with
the labor organizations an adoption agreement and. trust agreement creating
and establishing the Contra Costa County 1st Choice Employee Benefits Trust
effective July 1, 1992.
Approve and authorize the transfer to the Trust of all. lst Choice
Health Plan contracts and policies that are in the name of the County.
BACKGROUND:
A joint labor management committee has monitored and made
recommendations on the operation and administration of the lst Choice
Health Plan for more than a year. Some of the significant accomplishments
resulting from the Committee' s recommendations include:
o Selection of the Segal Company as plan consultant.
o Resolution of claim disputes.
o Determination of renewal rate charges.
o Selection of United Administrative Services as new claims
administrator.
o Selection of the Saltzman & Johns law firm as trust attorney.
o Preparation of the agreement that creates and establishes a joint
labor management trust.
The labor organizations ./through, the Health Care Coalition, and the
County are in agreement on allt terms of the trust agreement. The Trust
Board will consist of up to 13 employee organization trustees and up to 13
employer trustees for eighteen months. If a permanent mutual agreement as
to numbers of trustees has not been reached. at the end of: eighteen months,
the representation will consist of up to seven employee organization
trustees and up to seven management trustees., which. number is not subject
to the arbitration provisions of the Trust. The jointly managed trust will
control and manage the 1st Choice Health Plan, and funds contributed will
be held in trust for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to the
participants and beneficiaries of the trust. `e
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE; ■
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMME DA ION OF OARD O Ml TiiiTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE S :'
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: CAO Risk Management ATTESTED
Benefits Division
PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
County COUriSel
Jim Hicks, Chair, Health Care Coalition SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
lst Choice Trust
(via Risk Management) By ' ,DEPUTY
M382/7-83