HomeMy Public PortalAboutResolution 1144RESOLUTION NO. 114 4
A RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION IN THE
SOUTHWEST AGENCY FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT FOR A PERIOD
OF THREE ADDITIONAL YEARS
WHEREAS, the Village of Plainfield did previously through the passage of
Ordinance No. 1397, become a member of the Southwest Agency for Health Management
(SWARM), which is an intergovernmental entity providing employee benefits to the officers
and employees of this municipality; and
WHEREAS, through its membership in SWARM, this intergovernmental entity gains
the ability to achieve economics of scale in the administration of the benefit claims of its
requisite Members and the other benefits of membership provided for in the Contract and
By-Laws between SWARM and Intergovernmental Personnel Benefit Cooperative
("Cooperative"); and
WHEREAS, the Contract and By-Laws of SWARM provide that SWARM shall operate
in three (3) year cycles with the governing board of each Member being required to pass
an ordinance or resolution agreeing to continue as a Member for the new three-year cycle;
and
WHEREAS, failure to pass a timely ordinance or resolution, at least ninety (9Q) days
before the commencement date of a new three-year cycle shall constitute a withdrawal from
SWARM; and
WHEREAS, the next three-year cycle of SWARM and the Cooperative commences
on July 1, 1996; and
WHEREAS, this municipality desires to express, through the passage of this
Resolution, its desire to continue as a Member of the SWARM for the three-year cycle
commencing on July 1, 1996, provided that an adequate number of other Members of the
SWARM, as is set forth within the Contract and By-Laws document, also agree to continue
as Members for the next three-year cycle;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF
TRUSTEES, as follows:
SECTION 1: The Village of Plainfield shall continue as a member of the
Southwest Agency for Health Management for athree-year term commencing on July 1,
1996, in accordance with the Contract and By-Laws of that entity as they currently exist or
as they may be validly amended in the future.
SECTION 2: The obligation of the Village of Plainfield to be a Member of the
Southwest Agency for Health Management shall obligate the Village of Plainfield to make
financial contributions to the southwest Agency for Health Management only to the extent
required from time-to-time by the Contract and By-Laws of the SWARM.
SECTION 3: This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its passage
and approval as provided by law.
PASSED this 18th day of March 1996.
AYES: Dement, Lambert, Rock, Smolich, Stalzer.
NAYS: ~
ABSENT: Heimerdinger
APPROVED this ~_day of March , 1996•