Trustee Wanted

The Health Trust Board of Trustees would like to know if you are interested in serving as a Trustee of the Maine Municipal Employees Health Trust. The Health Trust’s Selection Committee is soliciting names of individuals to fill a vacancy on the Board. Currently, there are no Board representatives from the following county areas: Franklin, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc and Waldo. While the Selection Committee strives to maintain a geographically diverse Board, its primary objective is to appoint the best-qualified participants to the Board regardless of their location. If you have an interest, please let us know.

In order for the Health Trust Selection Committee to consider an individual as a Trustee candidate, the individual must:

1. Be employed by a Health Trust participating entity (city, town, special district, county);
2. Be an enrolled participant in one of the Health Trust’s benefit plans;
3. Have his/her board, council or commissioners’ support for the commitment necessary to meet the fiduciary obligations of an MMEHT Trustee.

An eleven-member Board governs the Health Trust, and oversees its health, dental, short and long-term disability and life insurance plans. The Board typically meets six times a year for daylong meetings. Trustees are also expected to serve on one of the Trust’s three standing committees that require additional meetings throughout the year.

The Health Trust Board governs a complex array of employee benefit programs for local government, county and special district employees in an ever-changing insurance market environment. The Health Trust provides employee benefit programs to over 450 public sector employers around the state, with over 20,000 employees, dependents and retirees participating in the Trust’s health plans.

The Trust is regulated as a Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangement by the state Bureau of Insurance and is one of the largest self-insured plans in the state. The Board works with a number of professional advisors, including its Plan Administrator (MMA), benefit consultant, actuary, and legal counsel, all of who assist the Board in governing the Trust. Health Trustees serve as plan fiduciaries and, as such, must administer the Trust’s programs in the interest of Trust participants. The Board is involved in many different functions, including setting annual rates, developing new plan offerings, reviewing third party administrative services, hearing benefit appeals, and analyzing claims trends. Trustees are not compensated, but they are reimbursed for their travel expenses.

If you meet the criteria above and are interested in serving on the Health Trust Board or just have questions about serving, please email or call:

Steve Gove, Director
Health Trust Services
Maine Municipal Association
sgove@memun.org
1-800-452-8786