[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Woodbury 8-12-2008 by L.L. No. 6-2008. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Village Board finds that some of its eligible
employees who could otherwise receive health insurance coverage through
the Village's group health insurance provider for themselves and/or
their families may already have health insurance coverage available
to them from another source. In cases such as this, the Village Board
finds that it is an unnecessary expense for the Village of Woodbury
to provide such an employee health insurance coverage where an otherwise
eligible employee of the Village already has sufficient health insurance
coverage available from another source. It is therefore the intent
of this chapter to authorize Village employees who already have health
insurance coverage available to them to elect cash payments in lieu
of the Village providing health insurance coverage for them and/or
their families as set forth more fully below.
This chapter is authorized by the New York State
Constitution Article IX, § 2, the provisions of the New
York Municipal Home Rule Law and the provisions of the Statute of
Local Governments.
A.
Subject to the conditions listed below, eligible employees
of the Village of Woodbury who have alternative health insurance coverage
available to them from other sources may elect to receive cash payments
in lieu of receiving health insurance benefits from the Village of
Woodbury's health insurance provider.
B.
The amount of any cash payment will be established
from time to time by resolution of the Village Board. The amount of
such cash payment will never exceed the Village of Woodbury's actual
cost of providing an eligible employee health insurance coverage through
the Village's health insurance provider.
C.
Should an otherwise eligible employee who has elected
this option subsequently desire to join the Village's health insurance
plan or be reinstated in said plan, such employee must notify the
Village Mayor or his or her designee, in writing, of the request to
join or be reinstated, together with the reasons therefor. The Village
shall then promptly transmit such request to the Village's health
insurance provider. The otherwise eligible employee will then be enrolled
or reinstated upon confirmation from the health insurance provider
of the Village that such enrollment or reinstatement of coverage has
become effective. At the time of entry or reinstatement to the Village's
plan, the employee shall be subject to the same cost sharing, if any,
of said health insurance coverage in effect for other eligible Village
employees based on their date of initial employment with the Village
of Woodbury or as same may be modified for all other eligible employees
in the future.
D.
No Village of Woodbury appointed employee, elected
official or nonunion employee will be entitled to a cash payment in
lieu of receiving health insurance benefits upon dropping down from
family coverage to single coverage.
