LAWRENCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING – January 4 ...

50 years of age. 3) Have been an employee of Lawrence County for a minimum of 15 cumulativeyears, and have been eligible to participate in the County’s health insurance plan during that period.4) Be enrolled in the County’s health insurance plan at time of retirement. 5) Have provided writtennotice of intent to continue health insurance coverage upon retirement at least 30 days prior to thelast day of employment. Failure to provide written notice may disqualify the employee’sparticipation. Requirements, Limitations, and Termination. 1) The former employee is required topay the full amount of the premium. The premium will be due on a schedule established by thehealth insurance provider, and the former employee is required to pay their premium by the cutoffdate each month. The premium is paid each month in advance for the following month’s coverage.Failure to pay the premium on time may disqualify the employee’s participation. 2) If the formeremployee, spouse or dependent child is a participant under another group healthcare plan, this benefitwill be secondary. If medical coverage is terminated for any reason, later application for enrollmentshall not occur. 3) Eligible former employees are allowed to participate in the County’s healthinsurance plan for a maximum of 15 years from the date they retired, or until the participating formeremployee becomes entitled to Medicare, or until any other terminating event, whichever occurs first. Atthat time, they will be automatically removed from the plan. 4) Spouses and dependent children offormer employees are also allowed to participate in the County’s health insurance plan. Theirparticipation may continue for a maximum of 15 years from the date the former employee retired, oruntil the former employee’s death, or until the participating former employee becomes entitled toMedicare, or until Medicare eligibility (spouse) or until eligibility age limit is exceeded (dependentchildren), or until any other terminating event, whichever occurs first. At that time, they will beautomatically removed from the plan. 5) A dependent spouse will become ineligible for coverage in theevent of divorce from the former employee. However, dependent children may still be eligible forcoverage provided they meet the aforementioned criteria. 6) A spouse or dependent child that losescoverage under this provision due to death of the former employee, divorce, or the former employee’sMedicare entitlement, will have COBRA rights starting on the date of loss of coverage. 7) The benefitswill be the same for this group as active employees. Dated this 10 th day of May, 2011. FOR THEBOARD: Daryl Johnson, Chairman. ATTEST: Connie Atkinson, AuditorHIGHWAY BUSINESS:IN-PLACE HOT MIX ASPHALT BIDS: The following bids were received from BituminousPaving Inc.: $147.00; Hills Materials: $130.00 and Sacrison Paving: $99.00. Moved-Seconded(Ewing-Flanagan) to accept the low bid from Sacrison Paving at the rate of $99.00 per ton layed inplace. Motion Carried.FOREST SERVICE AGREEMENT: Moved-Seconded (Flanagan-Sleep) to approve andauthorize the Chairman to sign the Road Project Agreement with the USDA Forest Service FSAgreement No. 07-RO-11020300-017. Motion Carried.UTILITY PERMIT: Moved-Seconded (Flanagan-Weisenberg) to approve the Utility Permit forMontana Dakota Utilities for a natural gas distribution line beginning in section 17 T6N, R3EAviation Place / Airport Road. Motion Carried.COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE: Denise Rosenberger and Carol Grine, Community HealthServices were present to review the Nurses Quarterly Report.