HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.07.18 - 32098MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #19238 July 18, 2019
BY: Commissioner Nancy Quarles, Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and Government Operations
Committee
IN RE: HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT — IMPROVEMENTS TO VISION BENEFIT COVERAGE
FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2020
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Oakland County has an IRS Section 125 Cafeteria Plan for employee benefits; and
WHEREAS the Cafeteria Plan is administered by the County Executive/Human Resources Department;
and
WHEREAS employees are provided with standard vision coverage at no additional cost and are able to
buy -up to "high vision" coverage during open enrollment; and
WHEREAS the difference between standard vision coverage and high coverage is the frequency of covered
services, whereby standard is every 24 months and high is every 12 months; and
WHEREAS the County Executive is recommending that the vision coverage for contact lenses be increased
from $35 to $50; and
WHEREAS coverage for frames be increased from $67 to $100; and
WHEREAS the effective date for this change would be 1/1/2020 for non-union employees, retirees and
represented employees whose union agrees to this change; and
WHEREAS the estimated cost to the County for these changes is $36,000 per year to the Fringe Benefit
Fund and $12,000 per year to the VEBA fund; and
WHEREAS the cost can be covered by existing resources in the Fringe Benefit Fund and VEBA Fund.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the vision coverage for contact lenses be increased to $50 and
the coverage for frames be increased to $100 effective 1/1/2020 for eligible non-union employees, retirees
and unions that agree to this change.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the VEBA Fund has adequate resources to cover this benefit change for
retirees.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a budget amendment is not required for the Fringe Benefit Fund as the
existing Optical Insurance line item is adequate to cover the vision benefit change for eligible non-union
employees and unions that agree to this change.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Commissioner N. •;uarles, 'bistrict # 17
Chairperson, Le is .tive Affairs and Government
Operations Committee
LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Gingell absent.
Resolution #19238
July 18, 2019
Moved by Luebs seconded by Hoffman the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be adopted (with
accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham,
McGillivray, Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack,
Gershenson. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda were adopted (with
accompanying reports being accepted),
GERALD D. POI ON
CHIEF DEP COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING' PURSUANT TO MGL 45$59A(7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on July 18, 2019,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 18th day of July, 2019.
,r;17
Lisa Brown, Oakland County
