Special Board of Aldermen 10-25-2021 Page 4
Chairman Dowd
Anyone else?
Alderwoman Lu
| just want to ask for some clarification. There’s been a lot of talk about when we have a public hearing whether it’s
time for us to ask questions or whether we’re meant to allow the public to ask questions or comment. | have
questions but having received this just now, | would be more ready to ask questions after I’ve looked at it.
Chairman Dowd
You can stay for the Budget hearing and you could also ask questions tomorrow night at the Board of Aldermen
meeting.
Alderwoman Lu
Exactly. Yeah, absolutely. | just wanted to kind of give a heads up that | may have a problem asking questions
tonight.
Chairman Dowd
| Know there’s been concern in the past about Aldermen asking questions but | feel that since the Board of Aldermen
are going to be voting on it, this is the item to ask the questions especially to clarify exactly what we’re addressing. So
it's not that we’re not going to open it up to the general public, although there’s nobody on line and nobody in the
chamber.
Alderwoman Lu
Just to follow up. | wonder if that demonstrates the difficulty of having a public hearing before a committee hearing.
The public hasn't had the change to look at the detail that we just got tonight. So thank you.
Chairman Dowd
It was the final decision made by the Board of Aldermen tomorrow night. Any other questions?
Alderman Klee
Thank you Mr. Chairman. | think kind of talking about what Alderman Lopez had mentioned about the predictability of
this. He mentioned that it’s three individuals. He mentioned that they all had surgery of some sort. | don’t want to ask
for anything specific but are we prepared if all the surgeries are done in one single year do we expect that year to be a
high cost year and perhaps the next year might not be? So | trust in your judgement and | agree with Director Kleiner
has said about that you’re all doing a wonderful job. | have no reason to deny that. So is this part of the predictability
that you’re kind of doing as far as your actuaries are concerned?
Jennifer Deshaies, Risk Manager
So the Claims Adjusters reserve these cases on the worst case scenario. So we base it off the medicals we receive
and our experience with handling these types of cases. So yes these cases have all been reserved if | may for worst
case. That doesn’t mean you're not going to see the reserve change due to let’s just say somebody returns to work
sooner than we think or they go another six weeks of PT. The surgeries have already have happened for every one of
these individuals.
Alderman Klee
So | guess | was little confused then and | do fairly understand workman’s comp. cases but you referred to these as
the claims are open for the life of a person. So that would mean that in five years down the road if they had additional
issues to that, it would still be part of that original workman’s comp. Is that correct?
