RESOLUTIONS FROM THE FACULTY WELFARE COMMITTEE

Number 1

WHEREAS, newspaper accounts of proposed changes in state employees’ hos~
pitalization insurance have asserted that a special legislative com~
mittee has tentatively approved a plan raising the deductible limit
and instituting a coinsurance payment; and

it is reported that the tentatively approved plan is to be subject
to competitive bidding by a large number of carriers; and

there have been no accounts of the special legislative committee's
intention to let out for bids a hospitalization policy comparable
to that coverage presently provided, involving neither an increased
deductible nor instituting a coinsurance clause;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Chancellor of East Carolina University and the President
of the University of North Carolina petition appropriate state
officials to prepare for bidding a hospitalization insurance contract
for state employees which maintains present levels of coverage,
the present deductible limit, and which mandates no coinsurance

payment; and

RESOLVED, that, before any final decision be made as to the provisions of
the hospitalization policy to be provided state employees, appro-

priate state officials receive from those bidding on the policy
their best bids for a contract which maintains present coverage
and deductible and which mandates no coinsurance payment.

the quality and availability of educational programs depend
heavily upon the presence of sufficient numbers of highly
qualified professionals whose presence, in turn, depends

heavily upon a competitive and attractive program of compensation;

the grant of a five percent across-the-board, cost-of-living salary
increment was funded for only half a year and was, thereby, made

an even more inadequate adjustment in a year of severe inflation;
and

the mere suggestion that the aforementioned raise for 1981-82 may
be recalled or that its continuation might be substituted for
additional salary increment appropriations for 1982-83 as a means
of economizing would further jeopardize educational programs;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Faculty Senate of East Carolina University recommend to
& the Chancellor of East Carolina University and to President Friday
that, in addition to the in-lieu-of appropriation, an across-the
board raise be sought for the personnel of the University of North
Carolina which shall at least offset the loss of purchasing power
attributable to inflation for the 1981-83 period.