HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2001.12.13 - 26351Miscellaneous Resolution # 01338 _
BY: Commissioners David L. Moffitt, District #18, Thomas A. Law, District #13, Eric
Coleman, District #21, William Brian, District #10, Daviel.ii*farmitley, District #14,
John P. Garfield, District #9, Charles E. Palmer, District #16, Hugh D. Crawford,
District #17, Peter H. Webster, District #22, Chuck Moss, District #15, Lawrence A.
Obrecht, District #3
RE: Board of Commissioners - Amending Oakland County Default Benefit Package
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Oakland County makes available to its employees a generous fringe
benefit package. All full-time employees are covered by a flexible benefits plan called
Natural Select; and
WHEREAS, each year, employees are required to decide how their annual Benefit
Dollars are to be used. The opportunity to make these selections generally occurs in the
fall of the year and become effective on January 1st of the following year; and
WHEREAS, employees who do not make their personal selections during the
designated enrollment period revert to the "Default Benefit Package." Unfortunately, many
employees inadvertently miss the deadline for enrollment and are forced to accept the
Default Benefit Package, which may differ significantly from their family needs or
preferences; and
WHEREAS, the Default Benefit Package consists of the PPO Medical, modified
dental, standard vision, one times (1 x) salary life insurance, one times (1 x) salary
accidental death coverage and no reimbursement accounts. This particular package is
seldom deliberately selected by employees actually timely exercising their choice; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners recognizes that despite
the extensive efforts of the Personnel Department to communicate to Oakland County
employees the importance of carefully reviewing the annual benefits program and
responding during the enrollment period, each year there are a significant number of
employees who do not respond during the enrollment period and inadvertently end up with
the "Default Benefit Package;" and
WHEREAS, the "default" function or position in many kinds of working systems is
intended to be the "most likely" choice, the "most often used" choice, the "most commonly
expected" choice, as when one's computer prints, in the default mode, to the printer
previously deliberately recorded in it, not to another printer, or allegorically, a system, no
one had ever deliberately chosen; and
WHEREAS, Oakland County should change the Default Benefit Package to be a
continuation of the benefit options that each employee designated in the prior enrollment
period.
David L. Moffi
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Thomas A. Law
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners directs the County Executive and the Personnel Department to change the
definition of the Default Benefit Package to consist of the benefit options that each
employee actually previously designated in the last previous enrollment period in which
they timely exercised actual designation choices;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT this change to the Default Benefit Package
shall become effective during the 2002 enrollment period.
Mr. Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
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Resolution #01338 December 13, 2001
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Personnel and Finance
Committees. There were no objections.