HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2024-020 Approve 2024 Health Consortium MCA AnnuallyMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARDFebruary 12, 2024TB Resolution 2024 -020: Approval of the 2024 Amendments to the Municipal Cooperative Agreement for the Greater Tompkins County Municipal
Health Insurance Consortium(GTCMHIC)Whereas, the Town of Ithaca is a Participant in the Greater Tompkins County Municipal Health Insurance Consortium (the "Consortium"), a municipal
cooperative organized under Article 47 of the New York Insurance Law, and
Whereas,themunicipalparticipantsintheConsortium,includingthisbody,haveapproved andexecutedacertainMunicipalCooperationAgreement(the"Agreement";effectivedateofOctober 1, 2010), and
Whereas, 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, and
Whereas, the Municipal Cooperative Agreement requires that amendments to the agreementbepresentedtoeachparticipantforreviewandadoptedbyamajorityvotebyitsmunicipal board, andWhereas,
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 be it
Resolved, thatuponreceiptandreviewoftheamendedAgreement,the Town of IthacaapprovesandauthorizestheTown Supervisortosign the2024Amendment totheMunicipalCooperativeAgreementoftheGreaterTompkinsCountyMunicipalHealthInsurance
Consortium as recommended by the GTCMHIC’s Board of Directors.
Moved: Pamela BleiwasSeconded: Susie Gutenberger
Vote: ayes – Bleiwas, Gutenberger, Howe, DePaolo, Levine and Rosen