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OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MINUTES
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November 2, 1987
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Tom Bailey
Berne Bit,eman
Christi Mouser
STAFF PRESENT: Brent McFall ,(
Tony McCarthy " I
Mike Webby.
Lori Hogan
OTHERS PRESENT: Dee Moschel, Chamber of Commerce
Ron Ricketts, Chamber of Commerce
APPROVAL OF VOUCHERS
All claims for the period ending October 31 , 1987, in the amount of
$969,273.67 were approved for payment.
EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAM
Committee Chair Tom Bailey introduced the subject by saying the staff had been
directed to investigate, at the last Operations Committee meeting, other
options for an Employee Wellness Program. Mike Webby introduced the
discussion of the program by highlighting, particularly for Chamber of
Commerce visitor Ron Ricketts, the highlights of an Employee Wellness Program
that includes an evaluation of City and employee needs, employee confidential
medical evaluation, wellness games as incentives for participation, the use of
the Kent Commons, for a one year trial with employees sharing ,half the cost.
Following the presentation, Mike noted that the Committee had asked the staff
to investigate other program providers. Mike called six companies that might
provide employee wellness programs that could be marketed to other users and
found three companies willing to provide such a program. Those companies
were: Pacific Physical Therapy, Pacific Nautilus, and the Virginia Mason
Clinic. Pacific Physical Therapy and Pacific Nautilus either could not
encompass the number of employees that the City would look to, have
participate, or their programs were in excess of $35,000 ($93i000 for Pacific
Nautilus).
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The Virginia Mason Clinic provided a program very similar to ,tho, one that was
being offered by Croup Health. They could serve 200 employeees :for,
approximately $15,000. Their program though provided now,of .toe
incentive-type programs that the Group Health program could 'pro-Ode.
Following this presentation, the staff recommended the option of using Group
Health to set the program up and provide the employee evaluation using the
Kent Commons facility as the base for the fitness portion of the program.
Following this presentation, Councilmember Berne Biteman noted that he had
contacted an individual in Gig Harbor who had developed a program for the
Peninsula School District teachers, that now has as participants employees of
both the telephone and light companies in the area. He asked the staff to
contact this individual about their program. Councilmembers Biteman and
Houser also felt that the Commons provided a cold environment and therefore,
the incentive for continued employee participation may not be there.
Following this discussion, it was decided to have the Committee recommend the
pulling of the consent item on the November 3 Council Agenda aad for an
investigation of the program currently underway in the Peninsula School
District. The information will be brought back to the Committee at their
November 16 meeting, hopefully to finalize a decision on the program so that
it can be begun in January following development with City staff participation.
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