Committee approves insurance renewal, occupational-health contract, cyber services amendment and a purchasing-policy tweak

The Overland Park Finance, Administration and Economic Development Committee voted unanimously on March 24 to recommend City Council approval of several administrative items: the city's property, casualty and cyber insurance renewals; the selection of an occupational health services vendor; authorization to negotiate a third amendment to the city's managed security services agreement; and adoption of a resolution giving the city manager limited emergency purchasing discretion.

The insurance renewal presented by staff showed the property and casualty renewals largely contained by negotiation, with the combined increase under 10 percent once higher exposures (more employees, police staffing, and budgeted expenditures) and rate changes were included. Staff reported cyber insurance renewed at a roughly 3 percent decrease; staff recommended increasing cyber coverage limits and noted a typo in the published agenda that listed cyber at $225,000 instead of the correct $255,000 in the proposed motion. Committee members moved to recommend city council approval of the insurance program for the policy term 04/01/2025'to'04/01/2026 with the insurers and not-to-exceed amounts read into the record: Federal Insurance Company (property) not to…