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Committee recommends Employee Handbook amendment to add insurance cost-share option
Summary
The committee recommended the City Council amend the Employee Handbook to allow an employee option for alternate health insurance with employer cost-share of 85%/15% for employees and 50%/50% for spouses and dependents; action will go to Council for approval.
The Fountain City Police/Personnel & Health/Safety Committee on Jan. 8 agreed to recommend that the City Council amend the Health and Life Insurance section of the Employee Handbook to add an option allowing employees to seek other health insurance coverage with specified employer/employee cost shares.
Under the committee's recommendation, the employer would cover 85% of the employee-only premium with the employee responsible for 15%; for spouses and dependents the cost share would be 50% employer and 50% employee. The committee record does not show a formal motion with a named mover and seconder for this recommendation; minutes state only that the committee agreed to recommend the amendment to Council.
Barb Schmidtknecht also provided an update on the deputy clerk position during the meeting; the minutes do not record further personnel action or hiring decisions.
Next steps: the recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration; the minutes do not specify a review date or expected implementation timeline.
