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Grosdale commission reviews staffing proposals and weighs keeping bridge employees as township staff
Summary
Commission members reviewed RFP responses for outsourcing toll-bridge staffing, discussed employee retention and healthcare timing, and asked staff for updated cost comparisons before choosing firms to interview.
Grosdale Toll Bridge commissioners spent much of their first meeting weighing whether to outsource toll-bridge staffing or keep the existing employees on the township payroll. Township Manager Derek Thiel presented responses to a staffing request for proposals and urged commissioners to compare the proposals to the township’s current cost of employing the bridge staff.
The issue matters because the commission must balance continuity of operations, employee benefits and deductibles, and the financial terms offered by private staffing firms. “We would like to try to get resolution to this by the end of the calendar year,” Thiel said, noting employees had already moved to township health plans and could face multiple deductible “resets” if their employer changes before Jan. 1.
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