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CHAPTER 3� LIVING WAGE AND R�St'(JNSI�31,� E'lJF3I_1C' SPENDING f�f:�il;l A r,,{t 1 of5 CHAPTER 38. LIVING WAGE AND RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC SPENDING REGULATIONS 38.10. Short 1'i�le.7�his chapter shall be called the "Minneapolis Living Wage and Responsible Public Spending Ordinance." (2005-Or-103, � 1, 11-4-05) 38.20. Findings and purpases.�a� Findings. The city council finds that: (1) Whenever the city invests public funds in private development projects, and whenever the city enters into contracts for services, those projects and contracts should create the greatest number of living wage jobs possible in Minneapolis. (2) It is therefore appropriate for the city to require that ( I) contractors working on city business pay at least a living wage and (2) business subsidies create jobs that pay at least a living wage. It is also appropriate for the city to focus its job creation and retention assistance at businesses that demonstrate a clear and ongoing commitment to the community by providing living wage jobs to their employees by giving priority to those businesses over businesses that have not traditionally paid living wages. Finally, to the extent legally possible, the city will give preferential status for job creation and retention assistance to businesses that engage in responsible labor relations. (b) Purpose. Recognizing that the city awards business subsidies and is a major contractorfor services, the city enacts this chapter to increase the wages of service employees and employees whose employers are subsidized by the city in order to improve public health and welfare, promote the economic strength of the city, and reduce the pressure on social service programs. (2005-Or-103. � 1, 11-4-05) 38.30. Definitions. Basic health insurance means (1} an insurance plan where an employer pays at least eighty (80) percent of the premium for individual coverage or the individual contribution plus fifty (50) percent ofthe difference between the individual rate and the dependent care rate for family coverage; covers at least eighty (80) percent of the costs for office visits, emergency care, surgery and formulary prescriptions; has annual out of pocket maximums of no more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for individual and threethousand dollars ($3,000.00) for family; and maternity coverage for in-network services; and if an out-of-network option is provided, out-of-pocket maximums will not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for individual and four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for family; (2) a deductible insurance plan provided by an employer where in-network deductibles do not exceed twenty-five (25) percent for office visits, inpatient care, outpatient care andlor urgentlemergency care, there is a one thousand five hundreddollars ($1,500.00) out of pocket maximum for individual and three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) out of pocket maximum for family, and any out-of-network deductible plan's out-of-pocket maximum does not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for individual and four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) for family; or (3) an employer provides a health plan not less in value than that provided to first level supervisory employees provided that the benefit costs employers a minimum of seventy-five (75) percent of thedifference between one hundred ten (110) percent and one hundred thirty (130) percent of the federal poverty level for a family of four (4). Cfi,y means the city or a principal unit of city government, including a city department, agency, commission, or board, acting on behalf of the city. �. ,� http r.'a;�f�� wd i i i�ia;;�u9� ec�ri r.'ri r��,�t��'i�x2'1 [ 4�}0/ l/3(.}/42 �� 1612006 --