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(=20000355 7. 11 :50 a.m. SHEILA BJERRUM DISCUSS AND APPROVE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR HEALTH DEPARTMENT: The board members received the proposed interlocal agreement for health department with an amendment that will allow the board of health to have statutory authority over the health department concerning the payroll and claims. A separate 900 fund will be created to control payroll activities This is detailed in section 15 of the agreement. The employees will be employees of the Grand Island Hall County Department of Health and will be subject to the regulations and benefits of the City personnel system. This information was presented at the City/County joint health department meeting. The agreement does not state if they will follow the county or city purchasing rules and it was suggested that they should adopt one or the other. The claims will be paid by the city and approved by the health department board. Paul Muller from city finance department stated that it will be better for the City, Hall County and the Health Department to have the Health Board approve the claims. Arnold made a motion and Jeffries seconded to approve the interlocal agreement with the City, County of Hall and Health Department. Arnold, Hartman, Humiston, Lancaster, Landis and Logan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. 8 TROY CHANDLER DISCUSS JUVENILE ACCOUNTABLlTY BLOCKGRANT: Troy Chandler stated that he has reapplied for the juvenile accountability block grant and there will be an additional $7,000.00 available to the city and county. Mr. Chandler stated that they would be starting drug and alcohol testing for the juveniles. The state patrol will supply the equipment and police department will provide the training. They also intend to develop a curfew system. The curfew paging system will track juveniles to make sure they are not violating curfew. New program dollars will be in the grant to pay for these hours. Again ten percent of the money will be retained for grant administration. Mr. Chandler stated that Todd Usury is helping Troy with the number of referrals and he carries pager two weeks out of the month. He has received his training and he works the offenders program on a weekly basis in schools, at home, in the office and at their place of employment, There has been a good response to the program. Lancaster made a motion and Jeffries seconded to approve the juvenile accountability block grant. Arnold, Hartman, Humiston, Jeffries, Lancaster, Landis and Logan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. 11 11 :45 a.m. Phyllis Chambers with Hartford Insurance out of Lincoln, requested to present information on a deferred compensation plan that they have. This program is used in 68 counties in Nebraska. It is an old company that was established in 1810 and is the nations largest insurer. It has $172 billion in assets and is one of the top five providers of compensation plans. Hall County now uses Nationwide Deferred Compensation plan. It purchased PEBSCO and they have made changes. They have terminated the local representations. County clerks are concerned with the amount of service the counties will receive. Hartford can also coexist with other plans. They specialize in 457 government deferred plans and they will work with clerks and employees to offer personal service. There is no cost to county to adopt plan and no cost to the county for maintenance fees. There are 23 choices of investment funds. They have quarterly statements and quarterly newsletters. They offer a toll free service number and also personal calls to the employees and they also have a web site. She would like to offer this to the county employees. Jeffries made a motion and Lancaster seconded to refer this to the insurance committee and to make a recommendation. Arnold, Hartman, Humiston, Jeffries, Lancaster, Landis and Logan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried.