Regular, full-time employees
are eligible to enroll in the City of Ottawa’s health, dental and prescription
drug insurance program. Coverage is effective the first day of the month following
30 days of employment.
Coverage cost (bi-weekly):
Single $22.50
Family $174.15
Employees who are eligible to retire under
KPERS/KP&F may continue city group health care coverage for themselves and
their spouse. However, the retired employee pays all premiums for such
coverage.
Optional Insurances
Employees have an opportunity to enroll in
cancer, personal short-term disability, personal accident plan, personal
recovery plus, and/or personal long term care insurance policies.
Flexible Spending Accounts
Regular, full-time employees
are given an opportunity to enroll in a voluntary plan designed to save the
employee taxes on group health and dental insurance premiums as well as other
allowable product premiums withheld from the employee's paycheck, unreimbursed
medical expenses, and dependent care expenses.
Life Insurance
All regular full-time employees are enrolled in the
city’s group term life insurance at no cost to the employee. This provides $15,000 death benefit payable
to the employee’s designated beneficiary. Dependent coverage is available at
the rate of $2,000 for spouse and $1,000 for dependent child(ren) at a cost to
the employee of 0.29 bi-weekly.
Active KPERS members receive
an insured death benefit equal to 150% of their salary; the employer pays the
full cost of this benefit. Active KP&F members are eligible for a death
benefit, with the amount of benefit based on service-connected or non
service-connected death.
Both KPERS and KP&F
members have the option of enrolling in KPERS Optional Group Life Insurance.
Employees decide how much coverage they need and pay the cost of the additional
coverage through payroll deduction. Coverage amounts range from $5,000 to
$250,000 in $5,000 increments.
Vacation
Leave
Vacation Leave is available
for full-time and regular part-time employees and amount earned will vary with
years of service to the City.
Sick
Leave
Sick leave is available for
full-time and regular part-time employees.
Sick
Leave Bank
In addition to Sick Leave,
the Sick Leave Bank offers additional benefits for regular full-time employees
who have exhausted all personal vacation and sick leave and have suffered an
illness or injury.
Holidays
Employees are eligible for eight paid holidays
per year, along with one City-designated 8-hour floating holiday.
Personal
Leave
A total of 24 hours of personal leave will be
provided each year, and will be pro-rated for new hires based on date of hire.
Educational Assistance
Reimbursement for tuition
costs of job related education may be available.
Employee Assistance Program
The City offers an employee
assistance program for employees who may be coping with a variety of problems.
The initial evaluation and up to two additional visits will be at no cost to
the employee. Additional services will
be billed to the patient’s health insurance.
Deferred Compensation
Employees may voluntarily
have an amount deducted from his/her paycheck to be placed in a 457 deferred
compensation plan. Employees who contribute no less than $10/per payroll shall
be eligible for contributions paid by the City at the following rates:
$39/quarter for FLSA non-exempt employees (employees eligible for overtime),
and $65/quarter for FLSA exempt employees.
Retirement
The State of Kansas maintains a defined benefit retirement
program that is funded by both employers and employees. Final average salary
and years of service are part of the formula that determines the amount of each
employee’s monthly retirement benefit. In addition, disability and death
benefits are also included for all participants.
All
eligible employees, except commissioned police and fire personnel, are covered
by KPERS (subject to membership rules of the system) and are required to enroll
after twelve months of continuous City service. All
commissioned police and fire employees are covered by KP&F (subject to
membership rules of the system) and are required to enroll on their hire date.