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Council approves employee health insurance renewal with provider switches; one abstention
Summary
The Clarksville Town Council approved the town's employee and retiree health insurance renewal, switching stop-loss and pharmacy managers to lower premiums by about 6% and reporting a net savings of roughly $328,998; the motion passed with six votes in favor and one abstention.
The Clarksville Town Council voted to approve the employee and retiree health insurance renewal for the 06/01/2024'05/31/2025 policy year after the insurance committee recommended several carrier changes.
Staff told the council that UMR/UnitedHealthCare will remain the medical carrier and that Delta Dental and Avisus will remain on rate holds through 2026. The presenter said the current stop-loss provider QBE proposed a renewal that included an increase summarized in the presentation; the insurance committee recommended changing stop-loss to Gerber Life and the pharmacy benefit manager to TrueRx (and "Sharks" in the transcript), a package the presenter said "results in a net overall insurance premium decrease of 6% with a savings and premiums of $328,998."
Councilman Stotts moved to approve the renewal and the motion was seconded; the clerk announced the outcome as six votes in favor and one abstention. The council did not record individual vote names in the public transcript; the meeting record states only the tally as announced by the presiding officer.
"That motion carries unanimously, and we'll now move on to new business," the presiding officer said after the vote, later clarifying the final count as "6 in favor and then 1 abstention."
