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PERSONNEL DIRECTOR ROBERT DONLON NOTED THAT A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO,.WE TOOK SOME NEW GROUPS INTO OUR COVERAGE AND FORMED A LARGER GROUP. HE STATED THAT PRIOR TO THAT TIME THE INSURANCE COMPANY WOULD NOT FURNISH US WITH GROUP EXPERIENCE DATA AS OUR GROUP WAS NOT LARGE ENOUGH. DUNCAN CHALMERS, INSURANCE AGENT, DISAGREED NOTING THAT AN IN- SURANCE CARRIER MUST SUPPLY EXPERIENCE INFORMATION ON GROUPS OF 59 OR , MORE AND THERE ALREADY WERE THAT MANY IN THE ROAD & BRIDGE GROUP. FIE CONTINUED THAT IN QUOTING HEALTH INSURANCE YOU NEED TO EVALUATE PAST EXPERIE14CE AND HE WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN ANY PAST RATE HISTORY. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE HAD ASKED TO BE SUPPLIED WITH A COPY OF THE_BOARD'S PRESENT POLICY AND BENEFITS BUT WAS INFORMED THAT HE COULD NOT HAVE THIS AS IT WOULD BE UNFAIR COMPETITION. CARL DAPPEN, INSURANCE AGENT, STATED THAT HE FELT THE SPECIFICA- TIONS WERE EXCELLENT AND WAS GLAD THEY WERE SO CONCISE AND SPECIFIC. GENE WADDELL, INSURANCE AGENT, INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE DID NOT FEEL THE COMPLAINTS WERE ABOUT THE SPECIFICATIONS BUT IN REGARD TO THE LENGTHY AND INVOLVED INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS, WHICH HE FELT DISCOURAGED j COMPANIES FROM BIDDING. THE CHAIRMAN THEN ASKED FOR RECEIPT OF BIDS, I" ACCORDANCE 1,1117HTHE '111OTICE mb THE FOLLOWING SEALED BIDS WERE RECEIVED, OPENED A71D READ: YEARLY PREMIUM BLUE CROSS - BLUE SHIELD 70,518.92 ARDEN INSURANCE AGENCY (1SSACHUSETTS AUTUAL) PLAN ONE 114,146.88 PLAN Two 126,504.40 CARL DAPPEN, AGENT (PRUDENTIAL) 102,627.60 ED SCHLITT AGENCY (;1SSACHUSETTS MUTUAL) 115,816.56 'L1 -10110N BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER Loy, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE ABOVE BIDS BEING REFERRED TO THE PER- SONNEL DEPARTMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE FOR EVALUATION. 31 MAY 1977 ra- 4ti.