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LACONIA — Belknap County Commissioners on Friday evening affirmed a two-year contract with Belknap County Corrections Officers Union which significantly diminished medical coverage costs. 

The proposed contract still needs endorsement from the Belknap County Delegation which will meet on Monday, April 4, at 6 p.m., at the Belknap County Complex to consider cost things of the aggregate dealing assention. 

Medical coverage costs in the main year of the understanding will drop from $440,393 to $386,166 and in the second year of the assention from $458,849 to $375,521. Those diminishments mirror a change from the present HMO plan to a "site of administration arrangement." 

Every one of the 21 individuals from the Belknap County Corrections Officers Union two weeks back voted in favor of the agreement, which gives a 1.4 percent salary increase in each of the two years, and in addition step expands, which could build add up to remuneration by 4.4 percent every year for qualified laborers. 

There is likewise a motivating force reward of $1,000 in the principal year for workers who do the change to the site-of-administration arrangement, which accommodates $1,000, $2,000 and $3,000 deductibles on single, two-man and family arranges. 

The wellbeing motivating force reward adds $21,000 to 2016 costs, which alongside the average cost for basic items and step increments and extra finance assessments and retirement costs build the aggregate expense of the agreement from $453,076 to $458,233, an expansion of $5,156. 

However, in the second year of the agreement, when there is no medical coverage motivating force reward, contact expenses will drop from $466,783 to $420,547, a $46,236 diminish.. 

The proposed contract is like the aggregate bartering understanding between Teamsters Local 633 and the district, which was endorsed by a 10-5 vote by the County Delegation last August.