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Republican National Convention JPA • Page 3 • Reimbursement. Cities will be reimbursed at "the prevailing contract wages at the rate of one and one-half times, together with the employer's share of Medicare and PERA contributions." See Section 3.3. St. Paul's obligation to reimburse a city is limited to the funds available in its security subsidy. See Sections 3.2, 5.2.5. St. Paul has a "good faith duty" to provide cities with as much advance notice as possible if it believe the security subsidy will be insufficient to reimburse all or a portion of a city's costs and expenses. See Section 3.2. A city may also withdraw from the JPA if St. Paul notifies a city that the security subsidy will be insufficient. See Section 16.2(D). One consideration for cities to make is whether the reimbursement will be sufficient for any "backfilling" to cover local needs while some officers respond to the RNC. • The JPA does not address damage to property. However, any claims for damage to a city's property would be addressed by the city's LMCIT coverage, to the extent that such property is covered. Additional information relating to joint powers issues can be found in the following LMCIT Risk Management Information memos which are available on the League website: • Liability Coverage for Joint Powers Agreements (httV://www.Imnc.ory/pdfs/LMCITMemos/LiabilityCoverageJointPoAgEs.pdf) • Risk Allocation and Coverage Issues for Joint Powers and Mutual Aid Agreements (http://www Imnc org/pdfs/LMCITMemos/RiskAndCoverageJtPowersMAA.pdf) • Joint Powers Agreements: An Outline of Risk Considerations (http://www.Imnc.org/pdfs/LMC ITMemos/J ointPowersAgreementsRi skConsiderations .pdf) Liability Insurance The host committee for the RNC has secured a $10 million Law Enforcement Professional Liability Policy. Each city that executes the JPA will be a "named insured" on the policy and will be protected to the extent of the policy's coverage. One consideration for LMCIT members considering responding under the proposed JPA is whether the $10 million limit provided under this policy is sufficient. The $10 million provided is subject to an aggregate limit, meaning that the most the policy will pay out is $10 million for any and all claims. If there are multiple claims of civil rights violations or similar claims to which the state afforded tort cap protections do not apply, these limits could be insufficient. According to SPPD representatives, no other national convention has held a policy with similarly - sized limits and there have not been claims of this size or scope as a result of past national conventions. While this is certainly no guarantee of whether $10 million is sufficient liability coverage, a city could reasonably determine that the risk of this policy being inadequate is minimal. 0