A. City Payment. The city shall maintain or contract for a medical insurance program for officers and employees of the city.

B. Who is Covered. All officers and employees of the city electing to be covered by the city’s medical program except members of boards, commissions or agencies and part-time or temporary officers and employees.

C. Salary Deduction. Any eligible officer or employee of the city who elects to participate in the city’s medical insurance program may authorize deductions to be made from his or her salary for payment of additional premium charges for family coverage, which deductions shall be paid by the finance director to the carrier of the group insurance.

D. Firefighters Insurance. The city, upon request of any city firefighter, will pay to Firefighters’ Union Local Number 1301 an amount equal to that paid pursuant to the annual salary resolution for an officer or employee of the city. Such amount shall be in place of and not in addition to any other medical insurance paid by the city for group medical insurance. Such amounts are to be utilized for medical insurance coverage as contracted for by Local No. 1301. (Ord. 2655 § 6, 1981; prior code § 3.22.020)