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ORDINANCE NO. 2011-20 Page 10 herein will be prorated on a monthly basis beginning the first month in which the employee would have received the benefit under the plan provided by the Municipality. (d) The Municipality will establish a "Health Care Task Force" comprised of appropriate representatives of the administration and employees, including representatives of the F.O.P., the Fire Union and representatives from each department. The Task Force will be expected to study the problems of health care and health care cost containment and then formulate recommendations which will be considered by the Municipality. (e) Effective January 1, 2009, employee contributions shall be Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month per member for family coverage and Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00) per month per member for single coverage, which shall be deducted from each employee's pay through automatic payroll deduction. In addition, effective January 1, 2011, employee contributions will increase by 25% of any premiums paid over the 2010 Cost in Section (a) above. 153. 13 INJURY LEAVE. (a) When afull-time employee is injured in the line of duty, while actually working for the Municipality, he or she shall be eligible for paid injury leave not to exceed ninety (90) calendar days which shall not be deducted from any other accumulated compensated absence time, provided such employee files for Workers' Compensation and executes a waiver assigning to the Municipality those sums of money such employee would ordinarily receive as weekly compensation as determined by law for those number of weeks the employee receives benefits under this provision. (b) Eligibility for injury leave must be approved by that employee's department head and the Director of Finance within ten (10) days of the processing such employee's Workers' Compensation claim through the Department of Finance. Eligibility and approval of injury leave shall be based, in part, upon such employee's Workers' Compensation claim processed through the Department of Finance, and, if necessary, also based upon a physical examination by a physician appointed by the Municipality resulting in the physician's certification that the employee is unable to work due to the injury. The opinion of the designated physician shall govern whether employee is actually disabled or not, but shall not govern whether the injury was duty related. In the event that the employee seeking eligibility for injury is a department head, the procedure for determining eligibility shall be the same as set forth herein above except that approval must be made by the Director of Finance and the Mayor. If the Director of Finance seeks eligibility for injury leave then the procedure for determining eligibility shall be the same as outlined herein above except that approval must be made by the Mayor. (c) Any limited assignments of duties shall be reviewed each seven (7) calendar days to determine if the employee is capable of resuming normal, unlimited duties and together with on the job injury time, shall not exceed ninety (90) days in duration. (d) If at the end of the ninety (90) day period, the employee is still disabled, the injury leave may, at the Mayor's discretion, be extended for an additional ninety (90) calendar day