Employee Benefits Trust Committee

The express purposes and primary objectives of the Trust are:

1. To establish and maintain a program of providing and maintaining health and welfare benefits for employees of the School District, and for certain eligible members of their families;
2. To serve as self-insurance within and according to the provisions of A.R.S. § 15-382;
3. To pay for costs of training designed to reduce losses and claims, the cost of related employee benefits related to the administration of the Trust;
4. To pay for uninsured losses, claims, and defense costs related to the administration of the Trust;
5. To pay for costs of administration and related expenses; whether through self-funded or insured programs or both;
6. To reimburse the Trustees for any other expenses necessarily or properly incurred by them in the performance of their duties under this Trust Agreement; and
7. To empower the Trustees to enter into contracts, procure insurance policies, or provide such benefits through self-funding, and to place into effect and maintain the desirable Schedule of Benefits.

The foregoing expressions of purpose are not exhaustive and, in addition to other related objectives reasonably inferred from that list, that the Trust shall have such other objectives as may be lawful under Arizona law.

Declaration of Trust (PDF)