HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Operations - 10/15/1987 OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MINUTES`'
October 15, 1987
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Tom Bailey
Berne Biteman 07-y�}�K
Christi mouser ' 17'1K
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STAFF PRESENT: Brent McFall
Tony McCarthy
Peggy Powell
Lori Hogan
OTHERS PRESENT: Dee Moschei, Chamber of Commerce
Nick Capato, Park Avenue Fitness
Group Health Representative
PacWest Representative
APPROVAL OF VOUCHERS
All claims for the period ending October 15, 1987, in the amount of
$2,050,452.03 were approved for payment.
EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAM
City Administrator, Brent McFall, noted that he had obtained Health and
Wellness proposals from a number of Health and Wellness providers. He noted
that the Health and Wellness issue was not new to the City, that the Fire
Department was currently running a fairly successful program, and that the
City planned in the Spring of 1987 to extend a program to all City employees,
and had been working with its health insurance consultant to develop such a
program. Since that time, a draft of the program has been presented to the
City. In addition, Nick Capato representing Park Avenue Fitness has
approached the City about using his facility. Attached handout describes the
program that the staff is recommending.
Following the presentation of the program by the City. l*,J tutor,
representative for Group Health explained their Home.at I'Pr ogram noting
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that it was currently operational in a number of governments ;agencies
including the Department of Natural Resources, the City of Mercer Island and
that a number of private firms had also embarked in their program. He noted
that their program would be geared tothe specific goals;;' ? the City which may
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include not only a health level but productivity, morale and str. He
proposed that they would work with-i group within the City, ,1 eyelop such a
program, and then would monitor the implementation of that,prt ram which would
include various types of aerobic and other activities along with an incentive
program and a program evaluation.
Following the presentation by Group Health, Nick Capato with park Avenue
Fitness and the representative from PacWest explained their programs. The
cost of their programs is shown in the attached handout.
Following these presentations, the staff discussed the various options. Brent
noted that he would anticipate the program would be able to save the City
money but not necessarily cash. Savings could be in the form of reduced
worker's compensation claims, reduced health insurance cost, improved moral,
improved productivity, improved attendance among other aspects.
Representative of the Chamber of Commerce commented that the program which was
proposed to provide a trail period of 60 days, be extended for possibly 6
months and that the program be a shared cost program where both the employee
and the City participate.
After the discussion on these issues, Councilmember Christi Houser, asked that
other providers in the area be contacted to see what their programs could do
for the City employees and how they could be implemented. Based on this
request, the Committee decided to extend the discussion of this issue to their
October 30th meeting.
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