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During this year, we became familiar with the and retiree s(town new regulations and plan design changes for Municipal required several days f research and datneeded to a pled which Health Insurance. try. For the upcoming year, some of our Also, in keeping up with the responsibilities activities will be to continue make every effort major under the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law,we supportive to the administration and employees of the coordinated an open enrollment period for employees Town, to continue to be fiscally responsible by our who are not eligible to have the town's health insurance involvement with benefits management, payroll so that they could choose one of the commonwealth processing,assisting with updates within the health and plans and arrange for a payroll deduction. We also benefit arena, to assist with the implementation of the fulfilled our quarterly filing requirements to DUA health insurance plan design changes,and to continue under the Massachusetts Health Reform Act Fair Share to audit and update policies and practices to ensure Contribution and we continue to meet our obligation of compliance with various collective bargaining filing a Health Insurance Responsibility Disclosure agreements and continue to stay abreast of employment (H.I.R.D.) form with the Division of Health Care and laws. Finance. ike all of the The Human Resources Assistant was appointed department would o heads and ttowln employeeedge and s for their as the coordinator for the mandatory ethics training cooperation and support during the year. required by the State Ethics Commission for all public employees. The Benefits Administrator coordinated a Respectfully submitted, wellness fair sponsored by the Cape Cod Municipal Marilyn Farren Health Group at which time we had 56 attendees. This year, the Benefits Administrator applied for and Human Resources Director received a$600 grant through the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group which is used to promote.wellness by offering attendance prizes for those that attend wellness Report of the workshops and the Town's annual open enrollment. Human Services Department Smoking Cessation programs and Diabetes Rewards Programs were also offered to town To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and Citizens employees by the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group. of the Town of Mashpee: Open-enrollments sessions for employees to attend workshops with representatives of AFLAC and Boston It is my pleasure to submit to you my annual Mutual were planned and coordinated as well as an report for 2011. open-enrollment for the Cafeteria Plan. The mission of the Human Services Department We continue to send staff to seminars for safety is "to protect and improve the physical, mental and training. The Safety Committee meets quarterly with emotional health of all Mashpee residents by enhancing excellent attendance from our administrative and public accessibility of a full continuum of health and human safety departments. Various safety training sessions are services. We seek to promote collaboration and offered to the town employees by our insurance cooperation between public, non-profit and private company throughout the year. sectors within the town regarding the health and human service needs of residents" Human Resources staff worked closely with Accounting and Assessing Departments to produce the This has been a very busy and productive year for tax rate breakdown for inclusion with the tax bills. the Human Services Department. The Human Service Committee worked to update what was entitled the This year,the GASB-OPEB report of information "Health and Human Service Comprehensive Plan." and participant data for health insurance, dental The name was changed to "Human Service insurance and life insurance for all active employees Comprehensive Plan"to focus on Human Services and to differentiate this from strictly Health Services. The I 108