Health Care Advisory Council

Date: 08/03/93

Action: Defeated

Vote: 4 yes, 1 no

Reconsideration noticed: 08/03/93

Reconsidered: 08/17/93

Action: Adopted as Amended

Vote: 8 yes, 1 no

KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH

RESOLUTION 93-90

WHEREAS, the Health Care Advisory Council was established through adoption of KPB Resolution 91-135 to examine the feasibility of a Borough-wide group health insurance program and to make recommendations for consideration by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly; and

WHEREAS, the Council spent 18 months educating its members on extensive and complex health care issues; studying health care programs from other states and countries; conducting a community survey; holding over 30 public presentations, forums, and workshops in addition to their regularly scheduled meetings; and

WHEREAS, the Council has concluded its feasibility study and has recommended implementing a community-based, managed-care concept to provide or arrange for multiple options of health care programs or insurance from basic health care to comprehensive; and

WHEREAS, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly adopted Resolution 93-78 proposing the acquisition of health care powers, which will include the provision for health care insurance programs, and setting August 3, 1993, as the public hearing date for this proposal;

SECTION 1. That the following proposition shall be placed before the voters of the Kenai Peninsula Borough at the next regular election on October 5, 1993:

PROPOSITION: Shall the Kenai Peninsula Borough have the area-wide municipal power to provide for health care services and programs which specifically includes the authority to establish and operate, or arrange for, the establishment and operation of health benefit plans for residents of the borough?

____ Yes ____No

SECTION 2. That this resolution takes effect immediately upon its adoption.

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Betty J. Glick, Assembly President

ATTEST:

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Gaye J. Vaughan, Borough Clerk