The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District School Board is busy determining how the Employer Shared Responsibility Requirements will impact their budget.
That Affordable Healthcare Act mandate will take effect in 2015.
Assistant Superintendent Dave Jones detailed what it means for the district.
Jones: “For us it would be substitute teachers, if we have substitute teachers that over a period of time work more than 30 hours a week or average more than 30 hours a week then with the new requirements of the Affordable Care Act even though they are just substitute employees we would have to offer them the ability to be on our healthcare if they average over 30 hours a week for us during the look back period.”
The district is still in the process of gathering information from that look back period.
Jones said the future eligibility is determined by how much they worked in the past.
During the work session on healthcare, the School Board was presented with a comparison of their health benefits with other school districts of Alaska like Juneau, Anchorage, and Mat-Su.
We asked Jones if there is anything in particular seen in those comparisons.
Jones: “The board had said OK we’d like to see how we compare to other districts and there are so many different parts of health care plans you can’t just take an individual part and say OK this is how we compare usually you have to look at it at three or four different areas because they are interrelated. So not really one thing jumped out.”