Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP HR17-104 and award a contract to Alliant Insurance Services, Inc., of Newport Beach, CA, for healthcare, employee benefits consulting, and actuarial services, in an annual amount not to exceed $350,000, for a period of five years with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and Authorize City Manager, or designee, to issue a Blanket Purchase Order to Alliant Insurance Services, Inc., of Newport Beach, CA, for healthcare, employee benefits consulting, and actuarial services provided during the procurement process and additional months of transition, in the amount of $140,000. (Citywide)
Motion carries. Item 13. Item 13 is a report from Human Resources and Financial Management. Recommendation to award a contract to Alliance Insurance Services for health care, employee benefits, consulting and rental services in an annual amount not to exceed three in 50,000 citywide. Case or any public comment on this item signal, please cast your votes. Councilman Mangas. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me back up, councilman. Did you come in to speak to us? Yes, but I think we had already. They had. It's okay. Councilman, do you have anything to say or no? Nope. And Councilman Price, you have any comments? I'd like to request that we move this item so that we have some time to answer some questions that have been presented to us from some of the employee groups. When you say move this, I mean you mean postpone. You mean move to another. Okay. Mr. Mayor, council members. We believe we've addressed all those items. If I can have Alex Vasquez respond to that. So there was a miscommunication earlier today and I believe the IAM group is comfortable with this item right now. Okay. Well, they were here when they left because they're comfortable. Okay. Well well, just to the makers of the motion, do you want to just hear this or you want to move it? Okay. If we could hear from them. There was no update before we started the meeting. So. Alex. Yeah. Good evening, mayor and city council members. Before you, you have a recommendation toward a contract to Alliant Insurance Services. This is a result of as a result of an RFP process. This contract will provide the city employee benefits, consultant consulting services and actual services. The annual contract amount is not to exceed 350,000, and we're recommending a period of a contract period of five years with the option to renew for three additional years. As a point of clarification, this contract is, as I indicated, for consulting services. It's it's not I think there was a miscommunication. It is not for our insurance carriers that provide medical, dental, life or disability insurance benefits. We're not proposing any changes with this action here to to those benefits. And on an annual basis, we come before the Council with our recommendations for. The annual renewal of. Those benefits and the costs. So I did have a conversation with Richard Suarez regarding this particular item and of particular concern was and the union sponsored benefits. And again, this is not going to change any of the union sponsored benefits and in any way. And if we were to propose to make changes to benefits, we would do that through our HAJEK process or any meet and confer requirements that we're obligated to enter into. So I understand and I appreciate that report. Unfortunately, I made a commitment before we started this meeting that I would do everything in my power to give additional time to our the workers that are concerned about this. So I'm going to honor that commitment. I'm requesting that we continue this to one week, and I'd ask my colleagues to support me on that. Councilman Andrews We find that motion will be. A couple of weeks because we're dark. Days. So I just said to the next council meeting, Yes. Okay. So this was a motion to continue to the next council meeting. There is a motion in a second. Councilman Gonzalez. I just wanted to concur with that as well. So I think you can comment on this item. CNN Please cast your votes.