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provided health insurance plan of the employee's choice. Employees who retire after 15 but less than 20 years of City service shall be eligible for city -paid employee only medical insurance coverage, until medicare age with dependent care available at employee expense. Employees who retire after having served a minimum of 20 years with the City shall have their, and their spouse's, premiums paid for by the City up to medicare age. After the retiree reaches medicare age, he/she can maintain health insurance with the City, but the retiree must pay his/her, and his/her spouse's, premiums. If the retiree is ineligible for medicare benefits, the City will continue to pay the premiums, as long as the employee remains insurable. For all other employees, all premiums required by their, and their spouse's, participation in such health insurance plan shall be paid by the employee. Participation in any health insurance plan is contingent upon the health insurance carrier approving the enrollment of a retired employee or spouse. The City will provide the retiree's health insurance benefit described above to retirees who move outside the Health Net or Kaiser service area and enroll in a health insurance plan. The benefit will be reimbursement for monthly premiums by the City up to the current Health Net premium rate. Eligible retirees must show proof of insurance and of payment of monthly premiums. Section 3: Dental Plan The City shall provide dental insurance for each represented full- time employee and eligible dependents in accordance with existing City dental plans. Section 4: Optical Plan The City shall provide an annual amount of up to $140 towards a vision examination and lenses and frames for employee and $90 towards a vision examination and lenses and frames for eligible dependents. Section 5: Term Life Insurance The City shall provide a total of $50,000 term life insurance for each represented full-time employee effective the first month following Council adoption of this MOU. Section 6: Long Term Disability The City shall provide to each represented full-time employee a long term disability program. The terms of the plan shall be more fully set forth in the plan documents; however, effective the first of the month following City Council adoption of this MOU, it shall provide for up to five years of coverage at 66-2/3% of the first $6000 of the employee's base salary, reduced by any deductible benefits. The elimination period is defined as the first 30 calendar days of each period of total GEN MOU - 1993 GRJ:KD 062493 _10-