HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2023-164 Municipal Cooperative Agreement ConsortiumMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARDOctober 5, 2023 TB Resolution 2023 - 164: Approval of the 2023 Amendments to the Municipal Cooperative Agreement for the Greater Tompkins County Municipal
Health Insurance Consortium(GTCMHIC)Whereas, the Town of Ithacais a Participant in theGreaterTompkins County Municipal Health Insurance Consortium (the "Consortium"), a municipal cooperative
organized under Article 47 of the New York Insurance Law, andWhereas,themunicipalparticipantsintheConsortium,includingthisbody,haveapproved, andexecutedacertainMunicipalCooperationAgreement(the"Agreement";effectivedateofOctober
1, 2010),andWhereas, Article 47 of the New York Insurance Law (the "Insurance Law") and the rules andregulationsoftheNewYorkStateDepartmentofFinancialServicessetforthcertainrequirements
for governance of municipal cooperatives that offer self-insured municipal cooperative health insurance plans that requires any amendments or restatements thereto, shall be subject to
Board review and upon acceptance of any new Participant hereafter,andWhereas, the Municipal Cooperative Agreement requires that amendments to the agreementbepresentedtoeachparticipantforreviewandadoptedbyamajorityvotebyitsmunicipal
board,and
Whereas,the Town of Ithaca is in receipt of the proposed amended Agreement and has determined that it is in the best interest of its constituents who are served by the Consortium to
amend the Agreement as set forth in the Amended Municipal Cooperative Agreement, now therefore beitResolved,thatuponreceiptandreviewoftheamendedAgreement,the Town of Ithaca approves
at a meeting of the governing body heldon October 5, 2023and authorizes the Chief Elected Official to sign the 2023Amendment totheMunicipalCooperativeAgreementoftheGreaterTompkinsCountyMunicipalHealthInsurance
Consortium as recommended by the Board ofDirectors. (Signatures on File) Moved: Pamela BleiwasSeconded: Margaret Johnson Vote: ayes – Bleiwas, Johnson, Levine, Howe and Goodman