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Regular Council Meeting Novem66r 14, 2011 Page 4 reasonable fee. Council Member Pickle said the City had been keeping the Health Department's books for at least twenty years and had not collected a fee for doing so. Dr. Kraft also said that it would cost more money for the employees to go to the county 4.2 1 retirement system and that is one reason that it would be best for them to stay under the city retirement system. Mayor Hashmi said that City Council needed to decide what direction should be given to City Staff. Mayor Hashmi said he would entertain a motion and then follow -up with discussion. A Motion to keep the relationship between the City and the Paris Lamar County Health Board status quo and educate employees on risk management was made by Council Member Grossnickle and seconded by Council Member Wright. i Council Member Pickle said employees contributed to retirement and asked if the Health Department matched it or if the City matched it. Mr. Anderson said it was in the Health Department budget, so it was equally split between the City and the County. Council Member Frierson said he thought the Health Department was good for the community, but that he would like to explore the possibility of an agreement with a stipulation that the Health Department provide their own liability insurance and name the City as an additional insured. Dr. Strom said the Health Department Board had obtained the insurance since the lawsuit. He also said there were other entities that had interlocal agreements between the city, the county and the health department, such as the City of Tyler. Council Member Frierson asked if the Board's insurance named the City of Paris as an additional insured and Dr. Strom said he did not know. Council Member Frierson suggested that the City of Paris be added as an additional insured. Council Members Wright, Avila and Grossnickle said they wanted to continue the current relationship between the City and the Health Department. Council Member McCarthy said he was unsure as how to proceed at the present time. He said that he agreed with Council Member Frierson in that the City should be named as an additional insured on the Health Department's policy. Council Member McCarthy went on to say that during the last several months he had received calls from Health Department employees, who expressed fear that the City was going to close the department down and they would lose their jobs. Council Member McCarthy said the employees said this was the message relayed by Board Members and the Health Department administration. Council Member McCarthy said he wanted everyone to understand that the City was not going to close the Health Department and that the employees were misled by someone. Mayor Hashmi asked about the possibility of the City keeping the Health Department and running it. Mr. Anderson said his objection to that was that the City performed basic services and the City did not know anything about health services. Mr. Anderson suggested they may want to look at the Health Department being managed by someone in the health field with both the City and County making contributions. He also said another alternative that had not been explored was for the hospital to run the Health Department. Mayor Hashmi also inquired whether or not the County would still make a contribution if the City managed the Health Department. Mr. Anderson said he could not answer for the County.