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During the term of this agreement, these amounts will be adjusted by an amount equal to the change (increase or decrease) in the Kaiser 5 + 5 co -payment. Employees electing to enroll in the CaliforniaCare Plan C2 or Blue Cross Prudent Buyer Plan will be required to contribute the difference between the above amounts and the actual cost of the medical plan premium. Such employee contribution will be on a pre-tax basis as specified above. Employees electing, not to enroll in the core medical plan (i.e. non -enrollment in the medical and dental plan) and demonstrate to the satisfaction of the City of enrollment in another medical plan, shall receive $150 per month for their non -election of medical/dental benefits. In the event both spouses are employed by the City and eligible to enroll in the City's medical benefits plan, one employee may elect not to enroll in the medical plan and will receive the $150 per month payment. Employees electing not to enroll in the medical plan, but continuing enrollment in dental shall receive One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month for their non -enrollment in medical benefits. Re -enrollment in medical and/or dental shall be allowed only based upon a qualifying event as defined by the Internal Revenue Service codes, or during a regularly scheduled open enrollment period. B. Medical (Retiree) The City shall pay the contributions required by the health plans' two-party rate for retired City management employees who are currently members of one of the City's three health plans. The City shall contribute to the health plan two-party rate costs until the retired employee is eligible for Medicare coverage: The maximum amount to be contributed by the City may not exceed Three Hundred Forty-one Dollars and four cents ($341.04) to the Kaiser Health Plan, Three Hundred Thirty-two Dollars and seventeen cents ($332.17) to the Blue Cross Health Plan, and Three Hundred Sixty Dollars and ten cents ($310.00) per month to the CaliforniaCare HMO Plan. In the Event the amounts required by the health plans exceed the maximum City contribution, such excess amounts shall be paid by the retiree. Retired employee dependent eligibility for City health plan contribution is conditional upon the active enrollment of the retired employee. If a retired employee moves outside the service area of his/her medical plan, the retiree will be allowed an opportunity within thirty (30) days of such move to change medical insurance coverage. In the event the retired employee moves outside the service area of all the plans, the city shall have no obligation to arrange for medical insurance. The contribution toward retiree insurance will continue, however. V a retired employee remarries, the retiree may add the retiree's spouse to the medical insurance coverage at City expense. The employer shall implement a medicare risk plan, which shall be made available to retirees at no cost to the City. C. Dental (Active) The City shall contribute a maximum of Seventy Dollars and eighty-seven cents ($70.87) per month per eligible management employee for current dental coverage provided by MetLife. Any increases in dental insurance premiums during the term of this Agreement shall be paid by the City.