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Mayor proposes one-time $250/$500 health stipend addendum to budget to offset 2025 insurance increases
Summary
City administration proposed an addendum to the mayor’s FY2026 budget that would pay a one-time, taxable stipend to employees to blunt the impact of higher health insurance costs: $500 for public safety staff and $250 for non‑public‑safety staff. Council staff said the plan would reduce general fund contingency below the usual target.
The mayor proposed an addendum to the city’s FY2026 budget that would give a one-time taxable stipend to employees intended to offset health-cost increases, $500 for public safety staff and $250 for other employees.
The proposal aims to ensure “no employee saw that health insurance cost make their paycheck be less than it was in fiscal year 25,” the mayor said during the finance committee meeting. The mayor said the administration intends the payment to be a single lump sum and to distribute checks around the Christmas season if the council approves the addendum with the budget.
Administration staff described why the stipend is targeted for certain employees. Miss Standridge, staff member, said the pay-plan design for public safety used step movements that in many cases produced raises for most sworn…
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