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Mission: Fort Bragg is a small town nestled between the coast and the redwoods with a strong sense of community that seeks to preserve its environment while providing resilient public facilities and infrastructure and supporting a safe and vibrant economic, multi-cultural, and recreational experience for both locals and visitors alike.

Vision: Fort Bragg, a California coastal destination with rich natural resources and rugged beauty, is transforming our future by weaving together our people, ecosystems, and economy to create community prosperity. We are making our mark in the 21st Century by creating climate-ready water and energy independence, housing and economic opportunities, accessible health care, community public safety, and education for all.

We are guided by the following Core Values:

Innovation: We highly encourage creativity and forward-thinking solutions to meet the evolving needs of our city.

Honesty & Integrity: We believe in transparent, honest, and ethical interactions with our community and stakeholders.

Service-Oriented: We are responsive to the public and to each other to demonstrate our genuine commitment to creating a Fort Bragg that Serves us today and readies us for a successful tomorrow.

Fair & Ethical: principles and practices, Fort Bragg promotes an inclusive community culture of unity and equality that openly invites everyone to enjoy our unique coastal enclave.

Collaboration: nourishes civic pride and celebrates the diversity of our city and the meaningful municipal services that our residents and businesses rely on.

We offer a complete benefits package to full-time employees including health care, dental, vision, retirement, deferred compensation plans, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, long-term disability, holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Part-time employees who work an average of 21 or more hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.

Benefits Summary
This benefits summary reviews health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits for the City of Fort Bragg, but it is not a contract. Full details about the benefits are provided in legal plan documents and insurance evidence of coverage documents (contracts) that govern the program. If there are differences between this Benefits Summary and those documents and contracts, the logal documents will control.

The City pays a portion of the premiums for medical and dental insurance for the employee, employee plus one dependent, and employee plus family. The City also pays 100% of the cost of vision care.

• Medical insurance: We have three plans available through Anthem Blue Cross. Two plans are "traditional" plans. The difference between the two "traditional" plans is one has a lower deductible and co-pays in exchange for a higher monthly premium. The third plan is a high deductible Health Savings Account (HSA) plan. The City pays 80% of the premium.
• Dental Insurance: Dental insurance is available through Delta Dental; the plan. The plan is a "traditional" plan. The City pays 80% of the premium.
• Vision: Vision insurance is available through VSP. The City pays 100% of the premium.
• A great summary of medical plans is containted in the City's Open Enrollment Packet.
• Information of compliance with Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) can be found here: CAA Machine Readable Files

Retirement
The City contracts with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to manage pension benefits. CalPERS manages the pemsopm amd health benefits (the City does not contract with CalPERS to provide health care benefits) to more than 1.6 million public employees, retirees, and their families and more than 3.000 employers.

The City does participate in Social Security.

The CalPERS website has more information if needed.

CalPERS Information

• New Miscellaneous employees who meet the "Classic" membership are covered under the 2% at 55 plan. Effective January 1, 2013, non-classic employees will be covered under the 2% at 62 formula.
• Safety employees who meet the "Classic" CalPERS membership definition are covered under the 2% at 50 formula. Effective January 1, 2013, non-classic Safety CalPERS employees will be covered under the 2.7% at 57 plan.

Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance.
The City provides this fully funded benefit to employees. Amount of coverage varies based on the employee's classification. The coverage is provided by Lincoln Financial Group.

• Class 1 - Elected Officials have $5,000 coverage
• Class 2 - Full-Time Executive Management employees have $150,000 coverage
• Class 3 - Full-Time Mid-Management employees have $100,000 coverage
• Class 4 - All Other Full-Time Employees not covered in classes 1-5
• Class 5 - All Full-Time City Managers have up to $300,000 coverage (For details, contact Human Resources)

Long Term Disability
This is an optional benefit that is partially, 50%, funded by the City through Lincoln Financial Group.

Flexible Spending Accounts
The City provides employees the option to reduce their taxable income while saving for health care needs for themselves and eligible dependents. There is also an option to save for dependent daycare costs as well.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
The City provides this fully-funded benefit to employees. The EAP provides employees and their covered dependents access to various professional for confidential assistance in a variety of areas: financial, personal, work-related, legal and nutrition and other health-related concerns. It is available 24/7 and is provided through Aetna.

Deferred Compensation
This is a voluntary program offered to employees (similar to the well known 401(k). It is a retirement investment program available to employees of public agencies.

Pet Insurance
The City offers optional Nationwide pet insurance to assist with veterinary expenses related to accidents and illnesses Policies are available for dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other exotic pets.

AFLAC Supplemental Coverages
The City provides optional supplemental coverages through AFLAC. There is a vareity of coverages, including Accident, Critical Illness (Specified Health Event), Cancer/Speciified-Disease, Hospital Confinement Indemnity, Dental, and Vision.

Holidays
The City observes 12 holidays. In addition, some employee groups receive one or more Floating Holiday to be used each fiscal year. See the specific resolution or memorandum of understanding applicable to the position in question.

Vacation
Accrued vacation may be taken as it accrues. In general, employees accrue vacation at the following rates:

• 3.39 hours per pay period for less than three consecutive years of service i.e. 0-36 months
• 4.62 hours per pay period for three or more consecutive years of service and less than 10 years of service i.e, 37-120 months
• 6.16 hours per pay period for 10 or more consecutive years of service i.e. more than 120 months

Rate of accrual and maximum accrual rates vary by employee group. The specific memorandum of understanding or reolution applicable to the position in question will govern.

Sick Leave
Full-time employees generally accrue sick leave at the rate of eight (8) hours monthly/ninety-six (96) annually. Employees begin to accrue sick on their date of hire. There is no maximum sick leave accrual.

Labor Relations
The City has two recognized employee organizations and represent over 40 employees. The City is committed to fostering positive alliances between the labor and management, work together to improve internal collaboration, employee involvement, morale, and customer service in the City.

Human Resources also manages the grievance procedures throughout the organization as outlined in the City's Memorandum of Understangings (MOUs) with it's labor unions. For grievance procedure details, please see the applicable MOU. For more informaiton please see the City's Labor Relations page on the website,

Bargaining Units

• Fort Bragg Employee Organization/Service Employees International Union Local 1021
• Fort Bragg Police Association

Non-Bargaining Units

• Executive Management
• Mid-Management Compensation
• Non-Bargaining/Confidential
• C.V. Starr

To learn more details, visit our benefits page,

Closing Date/Time: 5/2/2025 5:00 PM Pacific

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