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CITY OF ELK RIVER <br />HEALTH REWARDS PROGRAM POLICY <br /> <br /> <br />Purpose of Policy <br />Encourage employees to live healthy lifestyles by providing health and wellness learning <br />opportunities. Healthy employees will reduce absenteeism, increase productivity, help control <br />medical costs and insurance premiums, and reduce incidents of illness and injuries. <br /> <br />Health Rewards Program Committee <br />Committee members shall be comprised of employee volunteers from a variety of departments of <br />the city. The committee is responsible for providing appropriate health and wellness <br />opportunities for all city employees. <br /> <br />Events Provided <br />The Committee may provide different events from year to year. Events shall be related to health <br />and wellness, meet public purpose expenditure guidelines and be deemed appropriate by the city <br />administrator. To support employee engagement, incentives may be provided for participation <br />and for exceptional performance of event objectives. Examples of incentives include water <br />bottles, wristbands, kettlebells, Frisbees, a personal trainer session, rental of recreation equipment, <br />state park pass, and may cost up to $100 for an exceptional performance incentive. Employees <br />who are working their regular job during the scheduled time of the event may use up to one hour <br />of paid time to attend the event. Events that are intended to be attended on the employee’s own <br />time will be advertised as such. <br /> <br />Funding <br />Each year, the budget for providing health and wellness events shall be calculated as follows: <br />$500 funding base/planning funds <br />$9.25 per employee that is covered by medical insurance <br /> <br />As long as funds are available, this budgetFunds for the Health Rewards Program shall come out <br />of the money received by the City from the BlueCross BlueShield tobacco settlement.insurance <br />reserve fund. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Health Rewards Program Policy <br />Policy History <br /> <br />Adopted by: On (date) Item # <br />City Council May 19, 2008 3.10 <br /> <br />G:\\Health Rewards Committee\\Policy.docN:\\Departments\\Administration\\Human Resources\\Health Rewards Program <br />