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<br />employee insurance and medical benefits projects. Ms. Rogers stated that our current
<br />broker has represented us for ten years in the areas of medical, life and dental
<br />coverage only. There have also been several agents who have been allowed to offer
<br />voluntary products such as cancer, vision, intensive care, and accident policies to the
<br />employees for payroll deduction. Consolidating all products under one broker will allow
<br />the County to streamline administration, enhance benefits, reduce commission, and add
<br />services not currently available. A total of nine responses were received from the
<br />following agencies:
<br />BB&T Insurance Services, Inc., Sanford, NC
<br />BEC, Inc., Sanford, NC
<br />GBS, Davidson, NC
<br />Hill, Chesson & Woody, Chapel Hill, NC
<br />JRW Associates, Inc., Raleigh, NC
<br />Lacy West-Thomas Insurance Agency, Elizabethtown, NC
<br />Mark III Brokerage, Inc., Charlotte, NC
<br />McNeary, Charlotte, NC
<br />Pinnacle Benefit Resources, Inc., Sanford, NC
<br />Ms. Rogers stated that after careful review of the proposals, it is recommended that the
<br />County enter into an agreement with Mark III Brokerage, Inc. to provide employee
<br />insurance and medical benefits products. Ms. Rogers also stated that by contracting
<br />with Mark II Brokerage, Inc., the County will see a savings of at lest $45,000 in medical
<br />plan commission and an additional $1,200 in Flexible Spending Account Administration.
<br />Commissioner Adams moved to enter into an agreement with Mark III Brokerage, Inc.,
<br />Charlotte, North Carolina, for benefit brokerage services for employee insurance and
<br />medial benefits projects. Upon a vote, the results were as follows:
<br />Aye: Adams, Brown, Hincks, Lemmond, Paschal, and Reives
<br />Nay: None
<br />Absent: Stevens
<br />The Chairman ruled the motion had been adopted unanimously.
<br />County Manager David Smitherman presented a resolution to the Board for
<br />consideration opposing recent action taken by the North Carolina Association of County
<br />Commissioners (NCACC) Medicaid Relief Task Force. Mr. Smitherman stated that the
<br />NCACC Medicaid Task Force is proposing, as a remedy to ever increasing Medicaid
<br />costs, that counties and towns forfeit their shares of the 1% Article 39 sales tax to the
<br />State of North Carolina, and that counties indemnify the towns for the lost tax revenue
<br />as result of such forfeitures. As a result of this action, Lee County would lose $4.4
<br />million dollars per year in revenue in return for the State of North Carolina assuming Lee
<br />County's Medicaid expense of $2.7 million dollars per year. Mr. Smitherman stated that
<br />it is hoped that the Association will look for relief that all one hundred counties can be
<br />happy with. After some discussion, Commissioner Adams moved to approve a
<br />resolution opposing NCACC Medicaid Relief Task Force Proposal, a copy of which is
<br />attached to these minutes and by this reference made a part hereof. Upon a vote, the
<br />results were as follows:
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