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DAT£: March ~, 1986
TO:
FROM:
SU BJ ECT:
William A. Huston, City Manager
Director of Community and Administrative Services
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES DISABILITY RETIREMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION PROJECT
RECOMMENDATION
Approve participation in the League's Disability Retirement and Workers Compensation
Project at a fee of $5,000. (Monies will be drawn from the worker's compensation
fund.)
BACKGROUND
The League of California Cities Employee Relations Committee has developed the
parameters of a project to collect information on a statewide basis on disability
retirement and workers compensation costs. Efforts to reform the disability
retirement and workers compensation systems as they relate to public sector
employment have been unsuccessful. Increasing numbers of local government employees
are receiving workers compensation and disability retirement benefits for injuries
which are not job related. The League's legislative program has identified a
number of areas which need reform, but efforts at reform lack two critical ingredients:
1. A statewide data base on workers compensation and disability retirement
cost to support legislative change.
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A media effort to educate the public and state lawmakers on the problems
with workers compensation and disability retirement systems in the public
sector.
The League of California Cities proposes a project to accomplish the following:
1. Collect statewide data on City costs in workers compensation and disability
retirement. The data should provide trend lines over the last five years.
2. Specific information on the types of injuries and costs related to those
injuries.
3. The administrative procedures in each city used to process workers
compensation and disability retirement claims.
4. The incidence of litigation.
The data collected would be the centerpiece of a major media campaign to educate
the public and state lawmakers on workers compensation and disability retirement
reforms necessary in the public sector.
League Disability Retirement and Workers Compensation Projec%
March 4, 1986
Page 2
The League proposes to finance the statewide data collection effort and media
campaign by soliciting interested cities to join in the project and pay a fee
to finance the effort. The fee for participation in the projects, is as
follows:
Population Group
Project Fee
Under 25,000
25,000 to 50,000
50,000 to 100,000
over 100,000
$ 2,000
$ 5,00o
$ 7,5oo
$10,000
The goal of the project is to solicit 110 cities out of the 441 incorporated cities
in California. The project will not go forward with less than 65 cities, including
the four largest cities in the state.
The proposed project will produce the following products:
1. A statewide data base identifying the costs and problem areas related to
our current disability retirement and workers compensation systems.
2. Each city will receive an individual disability retirement and workers
compensation profile of cost and problem areas in the community.
3. Benchmarks for individual communities to provide for the internal
improvement of disability and workers compensation systems management.
4. The initiation of a statewide data base to continue collecting disability
retirement and workers compensation information and data.
RAW/kaw
DATE: March 10, 1986
NEW BUSINESS
NO. 5
3-17-86
Inter - Corn
TO:
FROM:
SU BJ ECT:
City Council
Community Services Department
TILLER DAYS REPORT
At the March 17 meeting, Cherrill Cady will be attending to give an oral report
on the 1986 Tiller Days. She will be reporting on the Committee meetings to
date and will be requesting financial support from the City Council.
Susan M. Jones
Recreation Superintendent
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