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Canyon Lake City Council approves resolution electing city subject to Public Employee Medical and Hospital Care Act
Summary
At a special meeting, the Canyon Lake City Council approved a resolution to make the city subject to the Public Employee Medical and Hospital Care Act so it can offer health and welfare benefits to public safety employees, the city manager said.
The Canyon Lake City Council at a special meeting approved a resolution electing the city to be subject to the Public Employee Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMCA), the city manager said.
The city manager told the council the step was required by CalPERS and would allow the city to offer "the same health and welfare benefits that we offer for all other employees," including fire, through PERS. "This was a requirement by CalPERS," the city manager said. "With, vote and approval of this, we will be able to offer those benefits."
Mayor Smith opened the special meeting, asked the clerk to call the roll and confirmed a quorum. The council had scheduled the special meeting because the city needed to submit documents to CalPERS before May 10; the manager said the regular meeting fell after that deadline and the special meeting was necessary to meet CalPERS' timing.
A motion to adopt the resolution was made and seconded, the clerk conducted a roll-call vote and the motion passed. The clerk recorded aye responses from members present and the mayor announced that the motion passed. The meeting was adjourned at 4:02 p.m.
The resolution makes the city eligible to enroll qualifying public safety employees in the medical and hospital benefits referenced by the act; the transcript did not specify a resolution number, mover or individual vote attributions beyond the roll-call "aye" responses.
