Beginning January 1, 2019 employees whose spouse’s employer or retirement provider provides and pays for at least 60% of the cost of health insurance for single coverage must have the spouse’s plan and enroll the spouse in that coverage. Benefits under the Board plans will not be provided to an eligible dependent spouse who also is eligible for the type of group plan described above until the eligible spouse has a “qualifying event” under federal law and otherwise meets the eligibility requirements of this paragraph.
Beginning January 1, 2019. The the City shall pay the Public Defender a flat fee of Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($52,500.00) Fifty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents ($53,812.50) per year in equal monthly installments upon receipt of an invoice in a form approved by the City. If appointed to represent a defendant in an appeal to Superior Court, the Public Defender shall be paid at the rate of $40.00 per hour for work performed in such representation, not to exceed $400.00 per case. In consideration of the Public Defender providing Public Defense services to the City from July 1, 2018, through October 31, 2018, the City has previously paid the Public Defender Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($17,500.00). The Public Defender acknowledges that such payment adequately compensated the Public Defender for his work during that time period. In consideration of the Public Defender providing Public Defense services to the City from November 1, 2018, through December 31, 2018, the City agrees to pay the Public Defender a flat fee of Eight Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($8,750.00), to be paid in equal monthly installments upon receipt of an invoice in a form approved by the City. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Public Defender is appointed to represent a defendant in an appeal to Superior Court, the Public Defender shall be paid at the rate of $40.00 per hour for work performed in such representation, not to exceed $400.00 per case. The compensation amount represents the salary and benefits necessary to provide Public Defense services through the undersigned counsel as supplemented in Section 2.4 below, along with all infrastructure, support, and systems necessary to comply with the Standards and Decision including, by way of illustration and not limitation, training, research, secretarial and office facilities. As provided in Section 2.5 and its sub paragraphs below, the parties will periodically review staffing in light of changes in court rule and case load in order to adjust staffing based on experience. The parties believe that they have provided sufficient capacity to ensure that, in all respects and at all times, public defense service will comply with the Standards and Decision with an adequate reserve capacity for each attorney. The Public Defender additionally agrees and promises that he will devote his full effort to the performance of this Agreement and will undertake no private practice of law or other public co...
