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a. Approve and authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign Amendment No. 4 to Agreement No. A-13188 between the County of Monterey and UNUM changing the Scope of Service to have UNUM offer a fully-insured employee-paid short-term disability buy-up supplemental plan; and
b. Authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign future amendments to the agreement where the amendments do not significantly change the scope of work or cause an increase in the agreement rates to a total of more than ten percent (10%).
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Approve and authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign Amendment No. 4 to Agreement No. A-13188 between the County of Monterey and UNUM changing the Scope of Service to have UNUM offer a fully-insured employee-paid short-term disability buy-up supplemental plan; and
b. Authorize the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign future amendments to the agreement where the amendments do not significantly change the scope of work or cause an increase in the agreement rates to a total of more than ten percent (10%).
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
On June 21, 2016, the Board of Supervisors approved Agreement No. A-13188 between the County of Monterey and UNUM to provide administration of the self-funded short-term disability advice-to-pay services, fully insured employer-paid long-term disability (LTD) benefits, and fully insured voluntary employee-paid LTD benefits with the option to extend the agreement by mutual consent of the parties. The Contracts/Purchasing Officer was also authorized by the Board to sign future amendments to the agreement. This Agreement has been amended three (3) times with the latest amendment extending the term through and including June 30, 2020 and changing the short-term disability plan from self-insured (claims funded by the County) to fully-insured (claims funded by the Contractor).
The Human Resources Department is now requesting that the Scope of Servi...
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