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<br />6.10 <br />Page 51 <br /> <br />Whenever the above eligibility criteria is met, the City will provide <br />medical benefits at the same benefit tier (single, two-party, family) <br />which the employee would have been receiving if he/she had <br />continued as an active employee. This includes adding and/or <br />deleting eligible dependents. <br /> <br />19.1.13 Employees who elect no health plan coverage and provide evidence <br />of other coverage during annual open enrollment, as a health <br />savings/cash option, the City and the employee shall share equally <br />the amount designated in Sections 19.1.4, 19.1.5, and 19.1.6 above <br />as the City's total maximum combined monthly contribution. <br /> <br />19.2 Dental Insurance <br /> <br />Effective 1st of the month directly following ratification and Council approval of <br />an agreement, the City shall continue to provide to eligible employees and <br />dependents fully paid dental insurance through the Delta Dental program, <br />through the term of this agreement to include coverages as follows: $2,000 <br />annual cap for basic coverage and $1,500 lifetime cap for orthodonture. <br /> <br />19.3 Savings Clause <br /> <br />If, pursuant to any federal or state law which may become effective <br />subsequent to the effective date of this MOV, the City is required to pay <br />contributions or taxes for hospital-medical-surgical, dental care, prescription <br />drug or other health benefits to be provided its employees under such federal <br />or state act, the Oty's obligation to furnish the same benefits under the <br />hospital-medical-surgical, dental care and major medical programs shall be <br />suspended and the contributions agreed to be paid monthly hereunder by the <br />City' shall be reduced each month by the amounts which the City is required to <br />expend during any such month in the form of contributions or taxes to support <br />said federal or state health plan. <br /> <br />If, as a result of such a law, the level of benefits provided by such law for any <br />group of employees, or their dependents, is lower in certain categories of <br />services than that provided under the Group Health Benefit Plans provided by <br />the City, the City shall, to the extent practical, provide a plan of benefits <br />supplementary to the federal or state benefits so as to make benefits in each <br />category of coverage as nearly comparable as possible to the benefits provided <br />under the Group Health Benefits Plans provided by the City! according to the <br />plan selected by individual employees. The City need only expend for this <br />purpose the actual amount required to achieve parity between the benefits <br />agreed to be provided under the Group Health Benefits Plans provided by. the <br />City and the benefits provided under any federal or state plan as supplemented <br />in the manner hereinabove described. In no event shall the City be required to <br />expend for such purposes an amount which, when added to the contributions <br /> <br />44 <br />