HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2025-011 Approve 2025 Health Consortium MCAMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARDJanuary 13, 2025TB Resolution 2025 -011: Approval of the 2025 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, and
Whereas, the Agreement sets forth in Section Q2 that continuation of the Consortium under the terms and conditions of the Agreement, or 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 the2025Amendment totheMunicipalCooperativeAgreement (Effective
1.1.2025)oftheGreaterTompkinsCountyMunicipalHealthInsurance Consortium as recommended by the GTCMHIC’s Board of Directors.
Moved: Pamela BleiwasSeconded: Eric Levine
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Bleiwas, Levine, Gutenberger and Rosen
ClerkSignature/Stamp
2025MunicipalCooperativeAgreementSignature
INWITNESSWHEREOF,theundersignedhascausedthisAgreementtobeexecutedasofthedateadopted bytheGreaterTompkinsCountyMunicipalHealthInsuranceConsortiumBoardofDirectorsandsubsequently adopted
by the Municipal Corporation named below.
Town of Ithaca
Municipality
Rod HoweTown SupervisorNameTitleSignatureDate