Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Administrative Service Department

TO:	David L. Corliss – City Manager
FROM:	Michael Bennett – Risk Manager
CC:	Cynthia Wagner – Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard – Assistant City Manager Jonathan Douglass-Assistant to the City Manager
Date:	May 12,2011
RE:	Kansas Workers Compensation Assessment

Please place the following on the May 17 City Commission Consent Agenda:  Authorize staff to pay Kansas Worker’s Compensation Assessment in the amount of $25,505.98.

Background

Every year the State of Kansas issues an assessment against every insurance carrier and self-insured entity to cover the operating costs of Kansas Department of Labor’s Office of Workers Compensation.  This year our assessment is $25,505.98.  This is down $1,232.71 from last year’s assessment of $26,738.69. 

We should be receiving a similar, though much smaller bill, from the Kansas Department of Insurance in the near future.

Recommended Action

Staff recommends paying the $25,505.98 assessment to the State of Kansas.