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East Norriton adopts personnel policy changes to contain healthcare costs and adjust PTO accrual
Summary
The board approved updates to personnel policy including switching to hourly PTO accrual, revising insurance opt-out incentives and other housekeeping changes to reduce township benefits costs.
At its Jan. 25 meeting the East Norriton Board of Supervisors approved a package of personnel policy changes designed to modernize time-off accruals and reduce healthcare costs.
Township Manager outlined several updates: converting vacation/personal-day accruals to hourly PTO accounting, modifying payout timing to reduce end-of-year lump-sum retiree payouts, and revising the long-standing insurance opt-out incentive. Manager said the township historically paid $530 to employees who decline township family coverage; the board discussed a new family-plan incentive aimed at encouraging employees to enroll on a spouse’s plan where eligible to save township costs and to keep benefits attractive.
Manager said family coverage currently costs the township roughly $44,000–$46,000 per employee per year and that the proposed opt-out incentive was modeled on practices in neighboring townships to avoid eliminating spouse or dependent coverage entirely. The board approved the personnel-policy changes after discussion and emphasized the administration will return with additional edits in coming months.
The policy package is administrative in nature; the board approved the changes by motion and voice vote. Manager said the measures are intended to be fiscally prudent while retaining competitive benefits to attract and retain staff.
Next steps: administration will implement PTO accrual changes and the revised insurance incentive and will present additional policy updates to the board over the coming months.
