The city hereby establishes the "Irving Self-Insurance and Risk Management Programs," which shall consist of the policies, rights, and duties embodied in the program ordinance. The program shall be implemented and administered as provided by the program ordinance.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.01), adopted 8/23/1990)
(a) 
The self-insurance claims board ("claims board") is hereby created.
(b) 
The claims board shall be composed of the following five (5) members: (1) deputy city manager or his designee as chairman, (2) the city attorney or his designee as co-chairman, (3) the financial, insurance and risk manager, (4) human resources director or his designee, (5) open seat for the department director.
(c) 
The financial, insurance and risk manager or another member of the claims board designated by the deputy city manager, shall serve as the secretary of the claims board.
(d) 
The claims board may select such other officers as it determines appropriate from among its members.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.02), adopted 8/23/1990; Ordinance 7348, § 3, adopted 10/22/1998)
(a) 
The claims board may exercise the powers and shall perform the duties and functions prescribed for it by the program ordinance, the risk assumption ordinance, and by any other ordinance of the city.
(b) 
The claims board may establish rules governing the conduct of its affairs.
(c) 
The claims board may take such actions as are necessary to enable it to properly and effectively exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions delegated to it under the program ordinance or any other ordinance of the city.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.03), adopted 8/23/1990)
The deputy city manager or his designee, as chairman of the claims board, is responsible for the administration of the program in accordance with the program ordinance, subject to the superior authority of the city council. In the course of carrying out this responsibility, the claims board shall interpret and apply the provisions of the program ordinance and the risk assumption ordinance.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.04), adopted 8/23/1990; Ordinance 7348, § 4, adopted 10/22/1998)
(a) 
The "self-insurance liability and workers' compensation funds" are hereby created.
(b) 
The funds are a special trust fund of the city, created for the purpose of providing capital for the program to be used as provided by the program ordinance.
(c) 
No person (including any plan member), other than the city, has, or is granted or vested with, any right to any of the money in the funds.
(d) 
The funds shall be maintained at the city's depository bank unless required to be maintained elsewhere by another city ordinance or by agreement entered into by the city.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.05), adopted 8/23/1990)
The funds may be funded with money:
(a) 
Provided by contributions made from time to time, upon the order of the city council, from budgeted, appropriated, and currently available city money;
(b) 
Derived from time to time by the city pursuant to agreements entered into with or any other third-person source of funding;
(c) 
Derived from the proceeds of indebtedness or other obligations incurred by the city from time to time for the purpose of providing funding for the fund; or
(d) 
Interest earned on the fund or funds.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.06), adopted 8/23/1990)
It is the policy of the city, subject to budgetary and general economic conditions, to self-insure against program risks (other than excluded payments) through the fund and to provide such self-insurance by depositing money into the fund in amounts sufficient, under actuarial determinations, to provide for the defined self-insurance coverages prescribed by the program ordinance. It is further the policy of the city, under the appropriate conditions, to obtain program insurance as provided by section 27A-123 of this article.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.07), adopted 8/23/1990)
The city, by virtue of establishing and maintaining the program, is not admitting liability for any claim. The city reserves the right to assert any defense to the payment or collection of any claim that is lawfully available to it or any plan member.
(Ordinance 5847, § 1(2.08), adopted 8/23/1990)