Delphos City Council wants more compromise in regards to their share of employee health insurance.
The cost of employee insurance will jump roughly 20% for 2019, and the city’s cost would jump to over $6,000 with the current formula they use. Council would like to see that cost get down to $5,000, which is around the amount they paid in years past. The Delphos Insurance Board, which is made up of employees, met and made an offer to the council for a little over $5,700. But the council is holding firm to find a number closer to $5,000. Now the insurance board will have to quickly work on coming up with a different plan to lower that number before insurance enrollment is supposed to start next week.
“Well there's a lot of different things that they can consider, so that is up for further discussion this week. There are some design changes they can make. So there are a lot of things that we can look into and they will have to start considering all those all again,” said Shane Coleman, Delphos Safety Service Director.
Mayor Josh Gillespie announced the retirement notice of the City Auditor Tom Jettinghoff effective at the end of November and asked that the city work under a temporary budget at the start of next year to give more time to develop a full city budget and get the acting auditor up to speed in the process, before a final budget needs to be voted on by April 1st.
