BENEFIT PLANS

Employees who are working half-time or more in a regular position are eligible for benefits.

What do I need to do?

1. Attend a benefit orientation meeting: Please attend one of the scheduled new employee orientation meetings closest to your hire date. This meeting will help you familiarize yourself with the various plans available to your employee group:
   


• Benefit Orientation August 2006-July 2007
  
• New Classified Employee Orientation August 2006
  
• New Teacher Orientation August 2006
  
  
2. Complete and submit benefit enrollment forms to the Benefit Department, Administration building, by the 10th of the month. Coverage is then effective the 1st of the following month.

What benefits are available?

Benefits are available by bargaining group. Medical benefits may be composite (one price for the entire family) or tiered (cost varies depending on the number of family members enrolled) and this is determined by bargaining unit.

What do basic benefits cost?

Select below for a list of costs of basic benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and long term):

• January 1, 2006 to August 31, 2006
• January 1, 2007 to August 31, 2007

Benefit Pooling - What is it? Pooling occurs when someone in your bargaining unit does not use their entire district monthly contribution allocated for basic benefits. The monies that remain after contributing to basic benefits are put in to a “pool” for your bargaining unit, the pool is divided by the number of people in the bargaining unit and used to help defray the costs for medical insurance. Pooling is recalculated every December after open enrollment. The following is a list of the pooling rates for the last four years.

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