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Neenah council approves 9.44% health-insurance increase, removes spousal surcharge and OKs several contracts
Summary
The Neenah Common Council on Oct. 15 voted unanimously to approve a 9.44% overall increase in the city's health-insurance premium, remove a proposed spousal surcharge from the family savings plan, adopt an alternate dental option and a parks staffing change, and approve several contract pay requests including $129,221.53 to Vinton Construction.
The Neenah Common Council on Oct. 15 voted unanimously to approve a set of personnel and contracting items, including a 9.44% increase in the city’s overall health-insurance premium, elimination of a proposed spousal surcharge, and several contract pay requests.
Council members approved the health-insurance package after the city’s human-resources director described factors driving the change. Amy Fairchild, Neenah’s HR director, said the city’s stop-loss costs rose because the city must now cover 2025 claims going into 2026, which she said produced a 19.9% increase in stop-loss costs that was applied to the overall premium. Fairchild said the city also is changing employee contributions from 12% to 10% and that the package would include a family-savings option that can give a premium incentive…
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