WARREN — Along with increasing the salaries of several elected and appointed officials, city council also will be giving itself health care and other benefits at the beginning of 2024 if proposed pay-raise legislation is approved.
According to the ordinance, if adopted, Warren council members will be entitled to receive “health care insurance coverage, health care insurance benefits, life insurance coverage and life insurance benefits,” in accordance with current city policy.
Warren City Councilman and finance committee chairman Greg Greathouse, D-3rd Ward, said council members do not receive health care coverage because they are considered part-time employees of the city.
Warren City Auditor Vincent Flask said the health insurance benefits will not apply to all members of council.
“It is council’s intent for this to be a secondary option,” Flask said. “If (council members) have access to other health coverage, the city’s coverage would not apply to them.”
Greathouse said if the legislation is adopted, he is unsure how many members would take advantage of the health insurance benefit, but he does not believe it would be all of council.
“At best, half might use it, and worst, nobody uses it, but I don’t know,” Greathouse said.
“The city’s got first-dollar coverage,” Greathouse said. “If I sit here and I’m healthy and I don’t have any health care costs for the year, it didn’t cost the city a nickel. But if you go in the hospital and have a $50,000 heart bypass, it costs the...
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