Approves an agreement with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado to provide medical insurance coverage in 2014 to eligible employees with a contract amount not to exceed $59.408 million (CSAHR-201419383-00). (TECHNOLOGY & GOVERNANCE) Approves an agreement with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado to provide medical insurance coverage in 2014 to eligible employees with a contract amount not to exceed $59.408 million (CSAHR-201419383-00). The last reguarly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-19??-15.  The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 12-16-14.
I just pulled this one out. This one actually relates to the amount that we are authorizing for Kaiser. But I had several questions and I see Heather Britton here, and I know that Heather would know the answers. To these questions there, certainly know where. To find them. And I will mention that I was asked questions. Before the meeting started. By citizen. And so I'm going to ask that some of this be discussed here. First of all. The bills themselves authorize the. 2014 year contract and we're now 2015. I know this is customary, but would you please explain why we're doing 2014 business today term? It's all timing. Actually. Heather, could you just introduce yourselves for the record, please? Heather Britton I'm the benefit manager with the Office of Human Resources. It's a timing issue. I visit you guys frequently. In fact, in for 2014. I visited you in August of 2013 to receive approval to purchase all of these contracts. By the time we make our way through the contract approval process, the division of insurance, so on and so forth, with our 13 different contracts, it takes pretty much all year to get the final contract language. So this is just sort of. Buttoning things up. You guys already approved the purchase about a year and a half ago for these contracts. Okay. My second question is, it was commented on what a. Large amount once. You added all seven amounts. Together. Can you mention whether this includes both the employee premium and the city contribution? And this was the Kaiser? Yes, it includes both the employer employee premium, but it also includes all employees. So it's the. Career service. Group and fire and police in that Kaiser's Kaiser number. Thank you. And the last one was not connected to these contracts, but since I had you up here, there was an approval to do a bonus. For those who wanted to participate in the wellness program. Has that been paid out to employees? It did. There was a brand new wellness program I presented to you all in, or at least that Technology and Governance Governance Committee for completing a wellness incentive. Employees were rewarded really with the $240 one time incentive, and that was paid on their first December check. Thank you very much. Any other questions on things? 1062 CNN. Thank you, Miss Britain. Oh, I'm sorry, Councilman Ortega. I just want to mention that when we. Discuss these bills last in committee. We also talked about the fact that folks from Human Resources are going to begin having conversations with city employees about the fact that our plans for next year are going to be different. And so for 2016, we're going to start having those conversations early with employees because some of it is complex. And I just want to remind folks that not to be surprised that, you know, human resources will begin coming to the different city agencies to talk about how the changes will impact them in 2016 and be able to answer all those questions early. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. All right. So you know the comments on this one, Madam Secretary, one to your next one, which should be 1112. Councilwoman Ortega, what would you like for us to do with this? So I have questions on all three of these, and the questions are the same. So if we can just address them all together, go ahead. That would be helpful. So I'd like to address these with I see Aaron in the audience from DIA. So my questions are, number one, there's language in here that says it's eliminating midterm refurbishment requirement and it looks like this is extending or. Allowing the contract to be renewed. I'm not sure if these are PDC premium value program concessions. No. So help me understand with this, eliminating the mid-term refurbishment requirement means on all three of these contracts.