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19.12 In 2004 at the conclusion of the bargaining units' cunent collective bargaining cycle, or soonsr if all City bargaining uniis agree, an employee committee shall be formed and shall meet for the purpose of creating a new or revised health care plan or plans for City employees. The committee shall consist of 14 employees who must be participants in one of the City's current health care plans and who have been seiected from the following emptoyee groups: 1 from Corrections, 1 from Dispatch, 2 fram ClericaUTtchnical, 2fVom Service, 2 from Fire, 2 from Police, 2 from NOMBL, and 2 from non-bargaining unit employees. The employer shall provide two advisors or facilitators to assist the employee committee regarding health care issues. The committee shall be required to review the City's current health care plans, including its plans for medical, dental and vision benefits, and adopt new or revised plan or plans that are competitive in the health care market and that will achieve the goals of promoting cost containment within the plan and minimizing premium contributions by empioyees. In fulfilling its mission, the committee shall consider office co-pays, prescription drug rates, deductiblcs, maximum out-of-pockets, weliness programs and such other plan amibutes and other related m$tters that will achieve the goais set forth above. Within six (6) months following its first meeting, the committee shall vote upon proposed new or revised health care plan or plans that meet the goals set forth above. If a majority df all members of the committee approve such proposed new or revised plan or plans, then such plan or plans shall become the City's plan or ptans, aad the Employer shall be authorizBd and dixected to implement the plan or plans. If the committee, however, fails within six months after its first meeting to approve a new or revised plan or plans, then the Employer shall be authorized to submit the matter to binding arbitration with an azbitrator selected by mutual agreement using the American Arbitration Association. The submittal shall instruct the Arbitrator to setect from health care plans submitted and order the Ecnployer ta implement such new or revised health caze plan or plans for all City employees that meets the goals set forth above. The cammittee shall meet thereafter at least every other year, commencing in the year 2006, when called upon by Employer to consider fiuther and additional revisions to the City's plan ar plans in order to meet the goals set forth above. When meeting in such future years, the committee and the Employer shall continue to follow the procedures set forth above for approving appropriate additional revisions to the City's health care pIan or plans. In no event shall the Employer implement a new or revised health care plan or plans, pursuant to either committee appraval or arbitration order, earlier than January 1, 2005. When the Employer implements a new or revised health care plan or plans, either pursuant to either commiitee approval or as a result of an arbittator's order, the provisions of Sections 19.1 through 19.11 of this Articte shall, to the extent that they are inconsistent or in 35