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Regular City Council Meeting <br />August 14, 2003 <br />Page 5 <br /> <br />$350.00 and the city has increased the contribution to $500.00 a month. <br /> <br />Councilman Plata asked if they had thought about going up on what the <br />employees are paying. Mr. Anderson said they have considered that, but one of <br />the drawbacks of that is the employees did not get a pay increase last year and if <br />they were given a 2% increase in salary, the hospitalization would have taken all <br />of that raise back, and, in that case there will be no raise and employees will be <br />losing ground. He said that Mayor Pfiester appointed a Salary and Benefits <br />Committee that he thought was going to address all of those issues, and Mayor <br />Pfiester ended up not working on that and the city did not do anything, thinking <br />that the committee was going to address that matter. <br /> <br />Mr. Anderson advised that for a single employee, the city pays the entire portion <br />of the hospitalization. If an employee has his entire family covered, the cost is <br />$220.00 and if it is only a spouse it is $135.00. Mr. Anderson said the split is <br />90/10 and there are some parts of the coverage that is split 80/20. He said that <br />one of the things that he has asked TML to look at it changing this ratio. Mr. <br />Plata said when they get a raise at Kimberly-Clark, what do you think they are <br />doing to us on insurance? He said that Kimberly-Clark had not told them what <br />they are going to do this year, but he felt employee insurance costs are going up <br />dramatically, and here Council is furnishing the city employees a 90/10 split. <br />Mr. Anderson explained that staff realizes the plan needs to be modified and <br />have requested cost estimates from TML if they make modifications. <br /> <br />Mayor Fendley asked Chief Louis if he had any change in total staff. Chief Louis <br />said total staff remains the same in the proposed budget. <br /> <br />Chief Louis said that there are three officers at the school which are paid by <br />grants and part of that grant required that the city had to agree to keep the <br />officers an additional year after the expiration of that grant. He said they have <br />already worked a deal out with North Lamar that they will absorb one-half of the <br />officer and the city will pick up the other half. Councilwoman Neeley asked <br />what is going to happen with PISD, and Chief Louis said they have continued <br />that program with PISD paying one-half and the city paying-one half of the cost. <br /> <br /> <br />