City of Columbus - File #: 2180-2006

• File #: 2180-2006
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/20/2006
• In control: Administration Committee
• On agenda: 12/4/2006
• Final action: 12/7/2006
• Title: To authorize and direct that the beneficiary of deceased employee, Lee R. Allen, be granted the life insurance benefit as directed in the 1973 collective bargaining contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME; to authorize the expenditure of $10,000 from the Employee Benefits Fund/Life Insurance: and to declare an emergency. ($10,000)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/7/2006	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
12/6/2006	1	MAYOR	Signed
12/4/2006	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
12/4/2006	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
11/27/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/27/2006	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
11/27/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
11/22/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/22/2006	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
11/22/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/22/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/22/2006	1	Auditor Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
11/22/2006	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
11/21/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/21/2006	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
11/20/2006	1	HR Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/20/2006	1	HR DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved

Explanation

Background: Lee Roy Allen was employed with the Sanitation Division, of the Public Service Department from 1968 until his disability retirement in 1973.  Under the 1973 agreement between the City of Columbus and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union (AFSCME) he qualified to receive an extension of Group Term Life Insurance Benefits in the event of total disability up to $10,000 under a Premium Waiver program.

Mr. Allen's beneficiary has come forward is seeking collection of Mr. Allen's Life Insurance benefit. Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company, the life insurance administrator during the time of Mr. Allen's disability has ceased its operations. The merged company, Reassurance Life Insurance Company did not pick up the Premium Waivers and the old records can not be located.  However, the Auditor's office has confirmed that Mr. Allen's life insurance benefit has not been collected. Evidence has also established that Mr. Allen met the criteria as defined under the 1973 union contract.  Therefore, this legislation is to request that Mr. Allen's beneficiary be granted the $10,000 life insurance benefit outlined in the AFSCME contract effective in 1973.

Fiscal Impact:  The 1973 AFSCME contract language provided a payment of $10,000 for life insurance during the continuance of the disability.  Funding for this is available in the Employee Benefits Fund/Life Insurance.  To authorize the expenditure for life insurance benefit of $10,000 to the beneficiary of Lee R. Allen.

To authorize the Human Resources Director to expend $10,000 from the Employee Benefits Fund/Life Insurance, or so much as may be necessary to pay the benefit; and to declare an emergency.  ($10,000)

Title

To authorize and direct that the beneficiary of deceased employee, Lee R. Allen, be granted the life insurance benefit as directed in the 1973 collective bargaining contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME; to authorize the expenditure of $10,000 from the Employee Benefits Fund/Life Insurance: and to declare an emergency. ($10,000)

Body

WHEREAS,  Lee R Allen, a disability retired employee of the City of Columbus was eligible for the life insurance benefits under the 1973 collective bargaining contract between the City of Columbus and AFSCME; and  

WHEREAS, the City of Columbus intends to grant Lee R. Allen's beneficiary the life insurance benefit in the amount of $10,000; and

WHEREAS, City could not collect the disability benefit from the City's current life insurance administrator or from the life insurance administrator at the time of Mr. Allen's disability retirement; and

WHEREAS, the City of Columbus intends to pay the life insurance benefit from the Employee Benefits Fund/Life Insurance to the beneficiary of Lee R. Allen, in the amount of $10,000; and

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Human Resources in that it is immediately necessary to pay the life insurance benefit of $10,000 to the beneficiary of deceased employee, Lee R. Allen,  thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:

SECTION 1. That the Human Resources Director is hereby authorized to expend and direct payment of the life insurance benefits in the amount of $10,000 to the beneficiary of deceased employee, Lee R. Allen.

SECTION 2.      That the purpose as stated in section 1, the appropriation and expenditure of $10,000, or so much thereof as necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Department of Human Resources, Division No. 46-01, Employee Benefits Fund 502, OCA 461000, Object level three 3362.

SECTION 3.  That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.