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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP NOVEMBER 28, 2018 The City Administrator also reviewed a potential change to the employee health insurance coverage that would have a significant cost savings for the City. There was Council consensus to have staff look seriously at changing to the different health insurance plan in early 2019. The City Clerk stated that the last few pages of the staff report are miscellaneous housekeeping items that should be adopted as soon as possible. There was Council consensus to approve the move to a short term disability plan with Unum, keep the benefit start day at 15, do not increase the PTO carryover limit from the current 30 days, and do not adopt a PTO conversion policy. DISCUSS Montour suggested this item be tabled until the December City Council meeting AMENDMENTS TO in order to have time tonight to discuss the CTV agreement. There was Council THE EDUCATION consensus to table this item until December 19, 2018. REIMUBURSEMENT POLICY DISCUSS NSAC The City Administrator explained that the North Suburban Communications PROFESSIONAL & Commission has proposed changes to the annual service contract for each of its TECHNICAL contract communities. He stated that due to a 40 percent funding cut related to SERVICES the Comcast PEG grant, CTV has had to reorganize in order to serve their AGREEMENT partner cities. He reported that the proposal from CTV has a 40 percent discount for the first year as a new customer. He stated that Dana Healey, CTV Executive Director was in attendance to answer any questions. The City Administrator stated that the staff salary budget line item for TV production staff is about $30,000, but the City has actually been spending, $23,500 to $26,000 annually. Dana Healey stated that they have staff that is available to video the City's meetings. She stated that they can do production services, and as part of the Neighborhood Network, they would include the parade, but also do at least two more productions annually. Keis asked about the City's current filming of youth sports. Ms. Healey stated the sports would be a for -hire situation. The Cable TV Producer stated that the $30,000 salary amount listed in the'staff report is not a realistic amount to use as a comparison to the $2,534 CTV proposal. She explained that Kevin Helander does most of the videotaping of meetings, and the $30,000 budget is also for the production and other services that she and Kevin provide for the City, such as she recently oversaw the complete design and process for the City's video production equipment upgrade. She stated that she is in favor of outsourcing the meeting coverage because it 2