Lawrence Wilson
Mr. Rapp: Insurance Bill is scariest part of the Budget. No control as is based on health of employees. In past deductions. Big reductions because no major claims. Multiple platforms for every plan. (Two problems here. 1. Reduction for one year was .15% that basically kept premiums flat. That was the exception, not the Rule. 2. Documents that were provided to me hardly ever showed any bids from other companies. There were two that seemed to present a variety? I noted one of them had four plans where the WORST of them was $312,000 LESS than what they paid to keep Highmark that year).
Mr. Conley: Each Council Member should look at those documents. Schwendeman will not tell us what plan we will chose? Will not tell us what Employees will pay? In the past by the Finance Committee, not Council as a whole. (Sorry Mr. Conley, again no cigar. Schwendeman will not tell you what plan will be chosen. The WHOLE process has been run back through Mr. Rapp/ Ms. Smith/ Budget Committee to insure stay with Highmark each year. I think/ maybe believe Schwendeman is nothing but a shill/ front to insure the coverage will in the end stay with HIghmark? And as noted yesterday, the coverage has been set up at basically 100% with the protected Premiums each year)?
Mr. Rapp: Actually, there is an Insurance Commission that looks at the plans. Nine people on it. Has always been that way. Every item is a budget decision. Lot of work goes in on there Insurance Plans. (This is PURE B.S. IF and I repeat IF there is such a Commission, it has just been formed? In the August 2017 FOIA, that caused all the brouhaha, I received 700 Documents and not ONE of them referred to any such Commission from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018 Insurance. In the next 700 they tried to foist off on me for the CSSI FOIA, there was again not a single document showing any activity by this so called Commission? And NOTHING in any other FOIA for the past six years. I would like to try and be gentle and suggest he is LYING?)
Mr. Conley: How many are not City employees?
Mr. Rapp: Honestly, I don't know. But I can get them for you. That is easy, every Department represented on it.
Mr. Conley: Sounds like Committee of nine employees? Need to focus on what we re going to do for the whole City not just the employees.
Mr. Conley: We need a 5/ 10 year plan. Waterlines, Transite lines have 50 year timeline. Transite in 5 year plan program, others 10 year. Street paving, a more comprehensive plan. (This is Ms. Powell and her BFF's stampeding him on things that are not part of this issue. I would question but as she destroyed the Group founded to resist the last Water/ Sewer Rate increases, she is now helping Mr. Rapp to justify another Rate Increase next year in the guise of removing/ replacing the Transite Pipes?).
Mr. Rapp: Street paving from the General Fund (City). The rest are from the Enterprise Funds (VUB.).
Mr. Rogers: Water lines, have to also look at Sewer, Infiltration. Pack it all back down and than do the Streets.
Mr. Metz: 5 year plans has upgrades in it. Based on the 1995 Woolford Engineering Study.
Mr. Rapp: Usually only 1 meeting in December. Not scheduling one for the 27th?
This Council Meeting should have been an embarrassment to EVERY Council Member Present and City Employee too. 'nuff said'.