HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/23/1987 Item #F-2cBY THE CITY COCIL
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
NOV- 2 3 198T CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
PERSONNEL OFFICE
• November 23, 1987 \
TO: Honorable Mayor Cox and AGENDA ITEM:_( J
Members of the City Council
FROM: Personnel Director
SUBJ: JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY AGREEMENT
For Employee Benefits
Early last summer the City Council authorized the
expenditure of $2,000 for the purpose of determining
the feasibility of forming a Joint Powers Authority
(JPA) focused on the procurement of various categories
of employee benefits. I am pleased to report that the
study has been successfully concluded, and with the
Council's approval of the attached Resolution, this JPA
will become a viable entity.
Attached, for your review and adoption, is a JPA
• agreement between the Cities of Costa Mesa and Newport
Beach. This Agreement will establish the JPA for the
previously stated purpose of obtaining more
economically priced employee benefits. This JPA has
the definite potential of additional Public Agencies
becoming members.
The JPA will address mutual needs, provide for
economies of scale, pooling of purchasing power,
maximizing return of investment, efficiency of
administration, provide portability of benefits without
the sharing of liability.
Our staff, along with the staff from the City of Costa
Mesa has been working on this concept since the
beginning of this year, and I wish to acknowledge the
time and effort they have put forth to bring this to
finalization.
Should you accept Staff's recommendation to approve
this agreement, this JPA will become a reality, in
• that the City of Costa Mesa adopted their Agreement
earlier this month.
D ane K. Munson
(3S)
RESOLUTION NO. 87 -167
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY CCUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE
CITY TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT FOR THE JOINT
EKERCISE OF POWERS WITH OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES
AND CREATING THE JOINT POWERS EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH, MANAGE, OPERATE, AND
MAINTAIN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PROGRAMS AS PROVIDED
IN SAID AGREEMENT.
WHEREAS, California Government Code Sections 6500, et
sec. provides that two or more public agencies may, by agreement,
jointly exercise any power comnon to the contracting parties; and
WHEREAS, Ca 1 i fo rn is Gov ernme nt Code Sect ion 45 000
provides that cities may establish a personal system, which
personal system may include employee benefit programs containing
health, medical, disability, deferred eompensation, insurance,
group plans, and other programs and mechanisms for the protection
thereof; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code Sections 45300, et
seq. provides that cities may establish, manage, operate and
maintain employee benefit programs, including, but not limited to
retirement allowances, pensions, death benefits, disability
payments, and others, and provide for the investments, care and
administration of retirement funds; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code Sections 53201, et
Seg. permit
a
public agency
to provide health and
welfare
benefits for
the
benefit of its
officers, employees, and
retired
employees,
and
to contract
with insurers, health
service
organizations, or legal service organizations for plans of health
and welfare benefits.; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 1157 permits
officers and employees of a public agency to authorize deductions
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from their, salaries or wages for payment of premiums for life,
accident, health, disability, and other purposes; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code Section 53212
permits public agencies to establish deferred compensation plans
for their officers and employees and to make deductions from the
salaries and wages of such officers and employees to participate
in a deferred compensation plan; and
WHEREAS, an agreement entitled "Joint Exercise of Powers
Agreement. Creating the Joint Powers .Employee Benefit Authority"
has been prepared, in the form attached as Exhibit "A," and
incorporated herein by this reference, which, if approved, would
create the Joint Powers Employee Benefit Authority; and
WHEREAS, the Authority would establish, operate, and
maintain a comprehensive program of employee benefits, including,
but not limited to, retirement, pension, death, medical, health,
disability, deferred compensation, insurance, group plans, and
other programs and mechanisms of the provisions thereof; and
WHEREAS, the public interest requires and it is to the
benefit of this City to join other public agencies to establish
and operate a cooperative program of management for employee
benefit funds.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport
Beach resolves as follows:
Section 1: The City Council hereby approves that
certain "Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement Creating the Joint
Powers Employee Benefit Authority" (herein "Agreement ") as
attached hereto as Exhibit "A," and authorizes the Mayor to
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execute said Agreement on behalf of the City.
Sect ion 2: City hereby expressly agrees to be bound by
all term and condit ions o.f said Agreement.
ADOPTED this 23rd day of November, 1987.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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Sect ion 3:
Upon said .Agreement becoming effective,
the
City
Manager is
hereby authorized in accordance with
the
Agreement to act as
.Director and the City's representative.
The
City
Manager shall
take all actions necessary on behalf of
the
City
to carry out and implement the provisions of the Agreement.
ADOPTED this 23rd day of November, 1987.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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