ORDINANCE No. 176320

*Amend contract with Magellan Behavioral Health, Inc. for citywide employee assistance program services (Ordinance; amend Contract No. 32553)

The City of Portland ordains:

Section 1. The Council finds:

1.  Ordinance No. 173654, passed by Council in August 1999, authorized a five-year contract (No. 32553) with Magellan Behavioral Health for employee assistance program services for eligible City of Portland Employees and their dependents with the exception of sworn Police and Firefighters

2.  Ordinance No. 174751, passed by Council in August 2000, authorized a contract (No. 30786) with Magellan Behavioral Health for employee assistance program services for eligible sworn City of Portland Police Officers, Firefighters and their eligible dependents.

3.  In an effort to consolidate services and reduce employee assistance program costs, the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Fund, acting on behalf of the Bureaus of Police and Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services, and the Bureau of Human Resources desire to terminate Contract No. 30786 and to incorporate services for sworn Police Officers, Firefighters and their eligible dependents into the provisions of Contract No. 32553.

4.  Magellan Behavioral Health, has indicated its willingness and ability to continue to provide employee assistance services to all groups represented within the existing contracts under one City-wide contract, No. 32553.

5.  The amendment establishes $2.01 per benefit eligible employee per month beginning February 1, 2002 through June 30, 2004. This results in a savings of savings of $.09 per benefit eligible employee per month over the current contract for the period February 1, 2002 through June 30, 2002; $.15 for the period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003; and $.20 for the period July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004. Appropriation for the citywide services is available within the budgets of the Bureau of Human Resources and the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Board.

6.  Specialized bureau services, including training and mediation services and critical incident stress debriefing services shall be billed at a rate not to exceed $125.00 and $190.00 per hour, respectively, over the life of the contract. Bureaus will absorb the cost of specialized bureau services.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

a.  The Mayor and Auditor are hereby authorized to execute the amendment to the Contract, attached hereto as Exhibit A.

b.  The Mayor and Auditor are hereby authorized to draw and deliver warrants in an amount not to exceed $132,660 annually for citywide employee assistance program services.

c.  The Mayor and Auditor are hereby authorized to draw and deliver warrants for specialized bureau services shall be billed at the hourly rate of $125.00 for training and mediation services and $190.00 per hour for critical incident stress debriefing.

Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists in order that there be no delay

in communications surrounding the City’s collective bargaining process; therefore,

this Ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its passage by the

Council.

Passed by the Council, MAR 20 2002      GARY BLACKMER

Auditor of the City of Portland

Mayor Vera Katz

Office of Finance and Administration      By /S/ Susan Parsons

Bureau of Human Resources

TG:YLD:JB             Deputy

March 20, 2002

BACKING SHEET INFORMATION

AGENDA NO. 255-2002

ORDINANCE/RESOLUTION/COUNCIL DOCUMENT NO. 176320