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Council approves switch of workerscomp representation, cites roughly 15% savings
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Summary
The Vinita City Council voted to replace its broker-based workerscomp arrangement with the firm(s) the meeting identified as OMAG/OMAC/OMAD, which staff said would preserve CompSource as the insurer while removing the broker and yield about 15% in savings.
Missus Carmel presented results of a yearlong review of the city's workers' compensation arrangements and recommended switching the city's representation to the entity the meeting recorded as OMAG (the transcript contains variant spellings including OMAC and OMAD). She told the council that CompSource would remain the insurer and that the change would remove the broker currently in place, producing an estimated 15% overall savings.
A motion to approve the change was made (the meeting record lists the mover as Larry and the second as Lucas). The council conducted a roll-call vote in which members recorded in the minutes (Lucas, Herr, Laird, Riley, Young, Wofford, Tyler and Swift) were recorded as voting yes. The chair thanked Missus Carmel for the work that produced the cost estimate.
A later, separate agenda item asked the council to approve OVAG (described in the record as "same as VUA") as the city's work-comp representative for its campus operations; council approved that item by voice vote as well. Both items were presented as delivering the same projected savings.
Why it matters: City staff framed the change as a cost-saving measure that keeps CompSource as the insurer while removing an intermediary broker. The council approved the change and recorded a unanimous or near-unanimous series of affirmative votes in the public meeting.
What remains: The public record in the meeting uses multiple variants of the representativename (OMAG/OMAC/OMAD and OVAG/VUA). The council approved the motions as presented; the record does not include a vendor contract in the transcript and does not show implementation steps or an effective date for the change.
