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Council and staff press to address rising health-insurance costs; consultants to provide scenarios
Summary
Clinton City council and staff discussed rising health-insurance costs and whether to shift a greater share of premiums to employees; budget staff said they modeled a 5% premium-equivalency increase for FY26 and will present scenarios showing the effect of different employee shares.
Council members and staff discussed the city's self-funded health-insurance fund and how rising claims and premium costs are increasing the city's fiscal exposure.
Anita described the city's practice of charging departments a "premium-equivalency rate" for employee health insurance and said she budgeted a 5% increase for FY26. She explained the city has used fund balance in the self-funded health-insurance fund to buy down the levy in recent…
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