HomeMy WebLinkAbout4816.pdfEXHIBIT 2015-049
To Approve the 2014 Amendment to the Municipal Cooperative Agreement for the Greater
Tompkins County Municipal Health Insurance Consortium
WHEREAS, The Village of Cayuga Heights is a Participant in the Greater Tompkins County
Municipal Health Insurance Consortium (the "Consortium"), a municipal cooperative organized under
Article 5-G of the New York General Municipal Law, and
WHEREAS, the municipal participants in the Consortium, including this body, have approved
and executed a certain Municipal Cooperation Agreement (the "Agreement"; effective date of October 1,
2010) that provides for the operation and governance of the Consortium, and
WHEREAS, Article 47 of the New York Insurance Law (the "Insurance Law") and the rules and
regulations of the New York State Superintendent of Insurance set forth certain requirements for
governance of municipal cooperatives that offer self-insured municipal cooperative health insurance
plans, and
WHEREAS, Section 4705(a)(8) of the Insurance Law provides that the governing board of
self-insured municipal cooperative must include representation of unions, which are the exclusive
collective bargaining representatives of employees covered by the plan offered by such self-insured
municipal cooperative, and
WHEREAS, Section K of the Agreement currently in place provides for representation on the
Consortium's Board of Directors (the “Board”) by the Chair of the Joint Committee on Plan Structure and
Design (as defined in the Agreement), and
WHEREAS, by resolution adopted on September 26, 2013, the Consortium's Board approved an
amendment to the Agreement to (a) increase the number of labor representatives on the Board; and (b)
provide for future increases to the number of labor representatives on the Board in the event the number
of participants in the Consortium increases, as more fully set forth in the 2014 Amendment to the
Municipal Cooperative Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit “A” (the “2014 Amendment”), and
WHEREAS, Section T of the Agreement provides that any change or amendment to the
Agreement shall require the unanimous approval of the Participants, as authorized by their respective
legislative bodies, and
WHEREAS, the Village of Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees has determined that it is in the best
interest of its constituents who are served by the Consortium to amend the Agreement as set forth in the
attached 2014 Amendment, now therefore be it
RESOLVED, on recommendation of the Government Operations Committee, that the Village of
Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees approves the following:
Section 1. The 2014 Amendment to the Municipal Cooperative Agreement of the Greater
Tompkins County Municipal Health Insurance Consortium attached to this Resolution is approved.
Section 2. The Clerk of the Village of Cayuga Heights is hereby authorized to execute this
Resolution to indicate its approval, deliver a copy thereof to the Board of the Greater Tompkins County
Municipal Health Insurance Consortium, and take any other such actions as may be required by law.
Section 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately.
“EXHIBIT A”
2014 AMENDMENT TO THE MUNICIPAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR THE GREATER
TOMPKINS COUNTY MUNICIPAL HEALTH INSURANCE CONSORTIUM
5. The Union Members on the Joint Committee on Plan Structure and Design shall select from among
the Union Members an individual to serve as an additional at-large voting Labor Member on the Board of
Directors of the Consortium. If the number of municipal members on the Consortium rises to seventeen
(17), the union members of the Joint Committee on Plan Structure and Design shall select from among
the Union Members an additional at-large voting Labor Member on the Board of Directors of the
Consortium. The at-large voting Labor Member(s) along with the Joint Committee Chair shall
collectively be the “Labor Representatives” as defined in Section C(11) of this Agreement. If the
number of municipal members on the Consortium rises to twenty-three (23), the Union Members may
select from among their members a third At-Large Labor Representative to serve as a Director.
Thereafter, for every increase of five (5) additional municipal members added to the Consortium Union
Members may select from among their members one (1) At -large Labor Representative to serve as
Director. Attached hereto as Addendum “B” is a table illustrating the addition of At-Large Labor
Representatives as set forth in this Section. Any At-Large Labor Representative designated according to
this section shall have the same rights and obligations as all other Directors.
Addendum “B”
Illustration of At-large Labor Representative Calculation
Total Number of Participants Total Number of At-Large Labor Representatives
<17 1
17-22 2
23-27 3
28-32 4
33-37 5
38-42 6