Employee Health Benefits

Your Medical, Dental and Vision options are posted by bargaining unit, please find your bargaining unit below and click on it to view your options for the calendar year 2025.  A calendar year runs from January 1 through December 31.

Active Employees

You may click at the following links for schedules and additional information:

Presentations:

Voluntary Benefits:

 

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Dependent Eligibility

To be eligible for coverage, and remain on your plans, a dependent must be a spouse, registered domestic partner, or child*. A birth certificate, marriage license or state-registered domestic partnership must be submitted at the initial enrollment of a child or spouse.

*Child Eligibility

Medical Dental and Vision — Children can be covered up until the end of the month in which they turn 26. Exception: If the child is enrolled in benefits through their own employer, they are not eligible for the district coverage.

 

Employee Eligibility

A bargaining unit member must be assigned to fifty percent (50%) or more of a full-time assignment in order to be eligible for health and welfare benefits.

  • Certificated Staff = 50% is equivalent to 15 hours a week.
  • Classified Staff = 50% is equivalent to 20 hours a week.

Dependent Eligibility

To be eligible for coverage, and remain on your plans, a dependent must be a spouse, registered same sex domestic partner, or child*. A birth certificate, marriage license or state-registered domestic partnership must be submitted at the initial enrollment of a child or spouse.

*Child Eligibility – Children can be covered up until the end of the month in which they turn 26.

Qualifying Life Events

Once enrolled, your benefit elections are irrevocable for the year until the next open enrollment period unless you experience a Change in Status as defined under the Regulations by Department of The Treasury IRS § 125.

Below are examples of change in status qualifying life events. In order to make a change due to a qualifying life event, the employee must notify the Benefits Office within 30 days of the life event.

  • Change in legal marital status, including marriage, death of a spouse, divorce and annulment.
  • A change in the number of dependents, including birth, death, adoption and placement for adoption.
  • A change in employment status of the employee, spouse or dependent including termination or commencement of employment, part-time and full-time.
  • A change in coverage of a spouse or dependent under another employer’s plan.
  • A COBRA qualifying event.
  • Loss of coverage under the group health plan.
  • Become entitled to Medicare