04/27/1988 FINANCE COMMITTEE Minutes

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Finance Committee Minutes April 27, 1988 Page 2. The representatives of the Insurance Advisory Committee noted that they had reviewed various dental plans and that Delta Dental seemed to offer the most for the least. Member Dolan expressed his concern about the Delta plan, stating that he has been covered by this plan several years ago and found the coverage limited. Carole questioned whether the town employees would be willing to pay more than 25% of the cost of this plan. Carl questioned how the health insurance would.-affect>.union:"contracts. Murphy noted that that there are four general government contracts, fire- fighters, police, clerical and DPW that are involved in health coverage. The town agreed to form an insurance review committee at which time bargaining unions and non-union employees and educational employees were invited to participate. The Selectmen agreed to include .on the warrant any Article that the committee wanted, but' did not consent to support the Article. Murphy noted that at present the town is under contract with the Cape Cod Municipal Group, so Aetna is unavailable to the town. He noted that various dental plans were reviewed and each company has a vast number of options and packages. The total cost of the dental insurance would be $46,000 to the town based on people.now.and how many family/individual plans that will be required. i John Ferriday noted that he could not recommend this in its current form. He expressed his belief that it wasn't a bad idea, but there just isn't enough money. Murphy noted that if the Insurance Advisory Committee should take this to Town Meeting floor and it is defeated they may next make a motion to seek reconsideration to have it subject to a 22 override and proceed with it that way. Selectmen have indicated that if the town agrees to put an item on a 22 override they will go along with it. The Insurance Advisory Committee stated they will let the Finance Committee know what their plan of action is prior to the Town Meeting. The next item of business was discussion of beach stickers and the cost of same. Wendy Rubin, Director of Park and Rec had made a recommendation to the Selectmen that there be two-year beach stickers costing $25.00, they did not go along with this recommendation. Murphy noted that at the present time there are no beach stickers granted to non-residents, so if you rent a cottage in the town of Mashpee, you can't use the beach. The large time- sharing resorts and condominiums bus people down and leave them off at the entrance and avoid any fees at all. Murphy expressed his belief that resorts such as Seamist should get an appropriate sticker based on the number of units involved. Ed Dolan expressed his belief that the fee should be $15 per unit per year and all other Finance Committee members concurred with this idea. Murphy stated :.'that.", . he believed that the Finance Committee should listen to the issues that are the basis of Wendy's recommendation prior to contacting the Selectmen. Murphy noted that it would be advantageous to have a cost analysis to illustrate how the Finance Committee arrived at the $15 figure. Finance Committee agreed to readdress this issue after more information from Wendy Rubin is available.